Senior Dental Moment

I knew I had a dentist appointment on Thursday for a cleaning and exam but when I checked my my calendar at work earlier this week it just said I was to leave at 3pm but not what time the actual appointment was. Good thing they called on Wednesday confirming the time (3:30pm). That was my first senior moment.

So on Thursday I left the office right about at 3pm even tho' I knew it wasn't going to take me that long to walk up the hill to the dentist's office. I had finished the book I was reading on the way in to work that morning so I stopped at Borders (it's on the way) to see if anything caught my eye. I figured if I had to sit for any length of time in the waiting room I'd want a book.

Obviously it'd been awhile since I'd been in this Borders. They'd moved the new paperbacks table somewhere I couldn't find it so I headed upstairs to the sci-fi section only to discover that it had been moved too. I finally found it and then walked around trying to remember the author's name who I knew had a new book out. I was seriously having another senior moment.

I finally found Jim Butcher's Dresden Files and grabbed one thinking it was the new one and that I'd not read it yet. I paid the outrageous price (has it been that long since I bought a paperback? the library's seriously spoiled me!) and walked the rest of the way up the hill to the dentist.

I walked in the lobby and realized I had no idea what floor I needed to go to. I'd only been there a couple times when I was getting my crown about a month and a half ago. And checking the directory wasn't going to help me because I couldn't even remember the dentist's name! Yes, I was having a senior day all around. But I knew the floor was somewhere in the 20s but not the 24th which was where my former dentist has his office.

So I took the elevator up to the 22nd floor but that wasn't it. I checked a couple more floors still not finding it and none of the names on the floor directories were ringing any bells. My watch was saying I was going to be late if I didn't figure something out soon and my bladder was saying it needed some attention too which made me remember when I had used the restroom the last time I was there. The men's and women's rooms are on alternate floors and my dentist's floor has a men's room. I had had to go up one flight on my previous visit.

So I went up to the top floor (the 26th) and walked down the stairs checking the floors that had men's rooms. Finallly I found my dentist's office on the 20th floor. Whew!

After getting the key for the restroom and taking care of my bladder, I sat the waiting room for a few minutes reading my new book and wondering why it seemed so familiar. Yes, I had already read it!