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Health & Fitness

Blinders—Not Just for Horses

Poof! Suddenly I can see...

You’ve seen horses wearing those little shade thingies next to their eyes so they can only look in front of themselves.  Yeah.  I’m wearing them, too.

The other day I looked—really looked—at my shoe rack.  There’s a shoebox on it, which is only odd because I just leave the shoes out where I can see them.  Now this shoe box has been there for ages, but I’ve never seen it!  Lo and behold, it contains a brand new pair of shoes in my size. 

What’s really embarrassing is that I have NO idea of how long the box has been sitting there, hiding in plain sight.  I must have put it there.  Last time I checked, Hubby (bless him) wouldn’t be likely to sport a pair of black pumps, so they must be mine.  So why has that box been invisible? Or, better yet, why did it suddenly become visible?

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Now I’m on a mission to look around.  Who knows what I might find.  Another room in the house?  A kid I didn’t know I had?  Maybe that pony I always wanted when I was little?

And it’s not just invisible things.  There are times when I arrive at work with absolutely no recollection of getting there.  It’s like I teleported from the driveway at home into the parking lot at work.  Perhaps I’ve discovered a worm-hole in the fabric of the time/space continuum.   Maybe--just maybe--it’s the portal into the Missing Sock Zone (not to be confused with the Black Hole that my car keys keep jumping in and out of.)

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And have you noticed that you’re getting ready to do some simple little thing like empty the dishwasher only to discover several hours later that the Tupperware is all color-coded, the car’s been washed, and there’s a turkey cooking in the oven, but the dishwasher’s still full?  How does that even happen?  It’s like the “Why did I come into this room?” issue on steroids.

I would have published this column two days ago, but I noticed the dishwasher was full, and….

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