Your house may contain a memory erasing vortex

June 27, 2008 – 10:16 pm

Ever noticed how a flight of stairs acts as a really good memory eraser? I completely forgot about this fact, since I’ve been living in a one floor apartment for the past year and a half. But now I live in a house again, like I have most of my life.

Stairs erase my memory at least once a day.

You’re downstairs in the living room and you say to yourself “oh yeah, I need X from upstairs.” By all means, this is a simple task that you’ve given yourself.  There’s no reason for you to think that you could possibly let yourself down. Your goal is still fresh in your mind when you hit that first step.  Things are looking up. Onward!

But then you hit the second floor. Something isn’t quite right. You know where you are, but why are you there?  You know there was a reason you made this voyage, but you’ve lost it.

You’ve let yourself down once again. No reason stay where you are. Defeated, you turn around and go back downstairs. That creaking noise the stairs make is their way of laughing at your failure.

Four minutes later you remember. Sigh…

It works both ways of course.  You could be upstairs and need X from downstairs.  Even worse, your house could have a basement (you probably don’t live in California) and you could be all the way on the top floor. You don’t stand a chance now. It’s not even worth it to make the trip. X isn’t that important anyway.

I’m not sure what it is.  Maybe it’s the change in air pressure?

Maybe I’m just an idiot.