It must have been then.  I know where I was on Wednesday. 

NO, I am not telling you where.

It wasn’t on Wednesday, but it had to happen around that time. Either the day before, or the day after.

Or, it could have been the day after the day before! I have been having a bit of trouble with my short term memory, and this didn’t happen very long ago.

It all was caused by the lack of a rubber band. I needed a Heavy duty rubber band to hold a bunch of pens and pencils together.  I was going to donate them to a school. I couldn’t just put them in my pocket, there were too many.

So I went to the desk drawer where things like that are usually kept. Nothing there. 

After hunting all over the room I use as an office, I remembered my grand daughter running around the back yard shooting rubber bands at the neighbour’s cat, that wasn’t supposed to be there. 

Of course! The rubber bands are in the back yard. So I went to retrieve what was still available.  I was just in time to see bird pick up the last rubber band and fly off to build a nest.

Then my wife told me to forget the rubber bands.  She gave me a piece of string to tie around the pencils. Actually, it will do the job just right.  

All I have to do now is find those pencils.  Where did I leave them! Perhaps If I find somewhere quiet  to just sit and avoid the upheaval of life, it will all come back. I think that is what generations past would have done.    

Or Not!

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