Tonya
11-03-2004, 11:55 PM
Ok, I think I have a serious head problem. I've always been a tad forgetful, but listen to this one...
When Jaden was a baby, I rented this huge beautiful victorian house. The rent was cheap because I shared it with a psychiatrist that owned the house. The house was divided in two and separated by a laundry room. Our exterior doors were side by side and we had seperate bathrooms but we shared the laundry room, garage and yard. I had my own kitchen, but his kitchen was in the laundry room. The landlord lived in a city 2 hours away and stayed in the other part of the house Mon-Fri because his practice was here in Modesto. I wrote my rent checks out to him monthly and hand delivered them. We saw each other pretty much every day, as you can imagine. He drove a tan Jeep Cherokee and his name was Marc XXX. I lived there a year and a half and I moved out Jan. 2000, so this wasn't a loooong time ago.
So, fast forward a few years. When Jaden was diagnosed with ADHD, I took some classes for three months taught by a Marc XXX. Then, when Jaden was referred to a psychiatrist to monitor his meds, I was referred to the same Marc XXX. And, I even once saw him drive in the parking lot in a tan Jeep Cherokee and kind of made a mental note on what he was driving. (You know how you are sometimes curious about your doctor's lives.) I've sat in his office a minimum of once a month for the past year and talked to him on the phone many many times not to mention I took those ADHD classed two years ago.
Yet...I never even made the connection. I didn't ever even think "He seems familiar." Then, today, I was driving, and it just hit me. "That's my old landlord/housemate!"
How I could have known him so well just five years ago, even wrote checks out to him...that very same name, all those similarities and not made the connection in my brain? I've totally gotten to know him a second time, and still nothing. It took me a whole year to connect that!? His looks or personality haven't changed a tad.
What the heck is the matter with me?! This really freaks me out.
When Jaden was a baby, I rented this huge beautiful victorian house. The rent was cheap because I shared it with a psychiatrist that owned the house. The house was divided in two and separated by a laundry room. Our exterior doors were side by side and we had seperate bathrooms but we shared the laundry room, garage and yard. I had my own kitchen, but his kitchen was in the laundry room. The landlord lived in a city 2 hours away and stayed in the other part of the house Mon-Fri because his practice was here in Modesto. I wrote my rent checks out to him monthly and hand delivered them. We saw each other pretty much every day, as you can imagine. He drove a tan Jeep Cherokee and his name was Marc XXX. I lived there a year and a half and I moved out Jan. 2000, so this wasn't a loooong time ago.
So, fast forward a few years. When Jaden was diagnosed with ADHD, I took some classes for three months taught by a Marc XXX. Then, when Jaden was referred to a psychiatrist to monitor his meds, I was referred to the same Marc XXX. And, I even once saw him drive in the parking lot in a tan Jeep Cherokee and kind of made a mental note on what he was driving. (You know how you are sometimes curious about your doctor's lives.) I've sat in his office a minimum of once a month for the past year and talked to him on the phone many many times not to mention I took those ADHD classed two years ago.
Yet...I never even made the connection. I didn't ever even think "He seems familiar." Then, today, I was driving, and it just hit me. "That's my old landlord/housemate!"
How I could have known him so well just five years ago, even wrote checks out to him...that very same name, all those similarities and not made the connection in my brain? I've totally gotten to know him a second time, and still nothing. It took me a whole year to connect that!? His looks or personality haven't changed a tad.
What the heck is the matter with me?! This really freaks me out.