Temporary amnesia

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I have this friend who never really remembers any instructions or tasks you give to them the first time unless you call him for the second time to remind him about it, almost like he's got something I like to call temporary amnesia. I remember how annoying it gets whenever this happens but this guy is someone who basically spends all of their day indoors, in front of a laptop, working. If I didn't know them personally, I would have imagined they looked like a fat man who's stuck at their parents basement, eating cheetos while bullying people on the internet all day.

But then I remembered that there was a time when I used to be like them, not the fat bully part but forgetful and back then I used to think that maybe I was getting old or something was messed up in my brains. This was during high school and my dad had sent me down to this shop to learn repairs.

The plan had been for me to learn how to repair electronics like television, stereos and all that stuff for a year and then return back to school to finish up. He did the same thing for two of my older brothers so it was only normal that I went through the same process. Unfortunately I ended up staying less than three months there and it was for a bunch of reasons, one of them probably being how forgetful I was about things.

You see, I like to think my friend forgets stuff because he has a lot of things to do and is always working, but that wasn't the case for me. Whenever my boss went out to get something done and I was left all alone in the shop, people would come around to look for him, people that needed him to do repairs for them, people I was just meeting for the first time and don't know who they are. I couldn't ask them for their names because it's not really something that young ones do over here, asking someone for their names sometimes can be seen as you being rude, so what I do is that I try to remember something about them, something I feel my boss would also know about them, so that when I do tell him about that person, he would know who they are even without me mentioning any names.

Unfortunately, that never worked and each time he got back to the shop and I tried explaining to him that someone came looking for him, he gets angry when he asks me some questions about their features and I end up saying the three words he hates the most "I don't know".

And this continued for a while, even people that I've seen before, I still forget their names when they come around for the second time, sometimes I forget entirely that they even came around and when they come back and see my boss, they tell him that they've been there before and he says nothing until they leave, when they do, he would look at me with anger, asking me why I didn't tell him. It got so bad one time that he ended up swinging a wire at me and giving me a scar, one that I carry as a trophy.. Lol

Anyways, did I end up overcoming this amnesia or forgetfulness? I think I did.. The "How" is what I really don't know because I didn't do anything special, it just stopped happening. Hopefully the same happens for this friend of mine because just like my boss was back then, I feel the same kind of way when he forgets stuff easily, it's annoying.