Logic Has Left The Building
Jun. 7th, 2020 04:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mama_kestrelDementia (excuse me, "cognitive impairment") has reared its head again. There was a smallish package outside our door yesterday. Addressed to my mother, it proved to contain a teeny tiny lilac bush. This is after surprise packages containing tomatoes, a "scent collection" consisting of rosemary, peppermint and lavender (all of which were already in my garden), a box of astilbe bulbs and a hydrangea bush. There were a some things I wanted to plant this year, but there isn't room for them now, nor energy to plant them if I made room.
Mom has no memory of ordering any of it. None. She in fact insists that she did no such thing. We actually had the following conversation.
Me: Mom, they didn't just send them to you spontaneously.
Mom: They must have - I didn't order anything!
Me: Nobody at QVC (from which all of these were ordered) looked at that and said "Oh, Eleanor would love that - I'll send her a present."
Mom: Well why not? I didn't order it, but I do love it. I should call and thank them. Who did it?
Me: (after metaphorical facepalm) Mom, do you want some lemonade?
Mom has no memory of ordering any of it. None. She in fact insists that she did no such thing. We actually had the following conversation.
Me: Mom, they didn't just send them to you spontaneously.
Mom: They must have - I didn't order anything!
Me: Nobody at QVC (from which all of these were ordered) looked at that and said "Oh, Eleanor would love that - I'll send her a present."
Mom: Well why not? I didn't order it, but I do love it. I should call and thank them. Who did it?
Me: (after metaphorical facepalm) Mom, do you want some lemonade?
