![]() ![]() So how refreshing it is to receive scientific confirmation that it’s not just my boys who suffer the odd mental lapse. ![]() Now, if I’d done something like that, I’d have been mocked as a senile fool who should never have been allowed anywhere near a computer.Īs for his younger brothers, they were forever coming back from school having left their homework in the classroom or wearing other teenagers’ blazers, which they’d put on by mistake. It was only when I drove the two boys to Heathrow Airport to see them off that we discovered he’d booked - and I’d paid for - four return tickets, instead of two. But instead of checking his junk folder - as, dare I say it, a sensible older person might - he booked again. All I had to do was lend him my debit card and foot the bill.Ĭome the eve of their departure, it finally occurred to him that he hadn’t received confirmation of his booking. He’d find cheap flights for the two of them on the internet. (Sorry to bring this up again, my boy - but if I’d done what you did, I would never have heard the end of it either.)ĭon’t worry, he said. I’ll never forget when our eldest was at Edinburgh University and our second son volunteered nobly to take our youngest up there to visit him. ![]() But in my experience, even the oh-so-self- assured young make the odd elementary mistake. Maybe in the same place where you put the last three pairs of headphones you lost, along with your bus pass, your football boots, the key to your bicycle padlock and my copy of the latest Private Eye.Īs for my own generation’s supposed gaga incompetence with computer technology, well, I grant you that there may be something in that. I wish I had a fiver for every time over the past decade or so, before three of our four left home, when I was woken at some ungodly hour by the chiming of the doorbell to find a sheepish son on the doorstep, after a night out on the tiles I’d be a rich man indeed if I had another few quid for every time I came down to the kitchen in the morning to find my phone charger missing from its usual socket by the kettle. What if Mrs U and I had forgotten ours as often as they did theirs? We’d have been permanently locked out of the house. I wish I had a fiver for every time over the past decade or so, before three of our four left home, when I was woken at some ungodly hour by the chiming of the doorbell to find a sheepish son on the doorstep, after a night out on the tiles. Memory lapses, says the neuropsychiatrist Laura McWhirter, who conducted the study, are as common in twentysomethings as they are among those 30 years older. Such a morsel of cheer lifted mine this week, with the evidence in yesterday’s paper that young people have no business to sneer at us old folk when we suffer the occasional senior moment īut now, researchers at Edinburgh University have found that men and women in their 20s regularly forget everything, from where they left their keys to the reason they entered a room. The soundtrack album is available for order on Amazon and Apple Music, see links on this page.Once in a while, even in these grim times, there comes a snippet of news to lift the most downtrodden heart. Senior Moment is set to premiere on 26th March 2021. The film stars William Shatner, Jean Smart, Christopher Lloyd, Esai Morales, Katrina Bowden, Ephraim Lopez, Kaye Ballard, Denise DuBarry, Valarie Pettiford, Ruta Lee, Beth Littleford, Maya Stojan, Don McManus, Joe Estevez, Wesley Eure, and Jack Wallace. Senior Moment is a 2021 American romantic comedy-drama film written by Kurt Brungardt and Christopher Momenee, directed by Giorgio Serafini, distributed by Screen Media Films. Genre: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack The music is composed by Laura Karpman ( Lovecraft Country, Why We Hate, Paris Can Wait). Original Motion Picture Soundtrack for the film Senior Moment (2021). ![]()
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