Man Blindness

Ha..ha..ha.. I am suffering with it and wife really shouts every time whenever i do that.Its very common that i never found my things which i keep with my hands like wallet,mobile phone,socks more often etc etc list is so long. I always wonder how come my wife finds the things which i never found even after keeping those myself.And really she has the patience as she still starts searching things every day.

GreenMoo you are not alone! lol! but it is not a man thing, believe me i'm gay and my partner is obviously female, and she also suffers from this complaint haha! she will ask me for something because she can't find it, and when i walk into the room i told her it was in, there it is sitting there lol!

Hi... You have the perfect example in me.. Many times, it has happened to me.. It is not mostly about 'things', it is generally about 'people'. I walk in front of my friends at times, but I am so lost somewhere that even after looking at them, I fail to recognize... They think it rude of me... And I have to convince them that I didn't do it deliberately... it has happened plenty of times... Twice with my Boss... I missed him twice.. he asked me too, 'what were you thinkin' about when you looked at me...?' You can imagine now, how horrible I am...

LOL! Sooo true! Yeah, I'm expected to know where everything is in this house. His wallet, his keys, his phone, his clothes that he takes off in the living room and throws over a sofa instead of putting away.. everything. Yet I ask "Where's my purse" or something similar and his response is ALWAYS "How should I know, I don't wear it". Yet 2 seconds later I'm supposed to know where his black pants are! Ugh! His blindness also causes problems when it comes to grocery shopping. There've been times I've called from the store while he's home to ask him to check on our milk, cereal, bread, etc. situations. He'll tell me we're out or close to, so I buy a week's worth of it (for milk that's 3 gallons).. only to come home and find a gallon or 2 shoved in the back of the fridge. Obviously he just opened the fridge, saw the almost empty gallon towards the front, and didn't bother to squat down to see if there was anymore in the back. Drives me bonkers!

I suffer from this blindness once in a while. There would be instances when would have visitors, and I see nothing wrong with the house. Only after they've left do I realize how messy everything is! Or sometimes it could get progressive. Like when I would be running back and forth between my bedroom and the garage looking for the car keys, which are on my hand. Sometimes I wish they'd jump up and say 'stop looking because you're already holding me/it!'

Sometimes when you look for something that has lost,the more short-tempered you are,the more difficult it is for you to find out it.Keeping one's head cool is the best way to do it.

My guy does that all the time, sometimes on an hourly basis, but he (as do I!) has a very valid excuse. We're both legally BLIND. Want to see our CNIB Cards? LOL He has glaucoma, and I have a neurological problem that screwed up my vision. LOL I've often wondered how people who can see well enough to drive (we can't!) can make totally stupid "blind" mistakes. When someone makes one in my presence, I always say "I knew it was there, what's your excuse?" The other day some bstard buzzed our apartment just to ask what street number the building was. It was painted right on the front! I told him to go to hell. LOL

Who? Me! I call it hiding in plain sight. Just because you look Does not mean you see! this is why I Have to put things Exactly where they belong. Case in point. I thought I had lost my umbrella I went out an bought another Only to find someone , Not me , put it in the wrong place! So I'm with Hubby on this one.

In fact I know several people with this blindness....even my little granddaughter. I have to be very specific where things are and they can be right in front of her and she doesn't see a thing! LOL

How about woman blindness? That's me!! I put my grocery list right next to my car keys and still forget it. I set my library book by the door and walk out without them! I have to do things like put the keys in a certain place every time I am done using them or I can't find them. I hang the books in a bag on the doorknob and still I sometimes forget them. It's not gender specific, that blindness. It's a lack of focus, I think. My ex had it too--can you imagine two people like that living together?!

I have encountered this myself. It is of course forgetfulness. We are all guilty of it at some point. I have lost things, or thought I did when in fact they were right under my nose. The same goes for my girls friend. She does that all the time. It's a sign of aging.

Hi GreenMoo! It's probably the lack of oxygen from living at such a high altitude that's disorientating him. That, or like me he would expect you to have tidied it up and can't think where you would put it , never thinking you hadn't got round to it and it was still where he had thrown it.

GreenMoo lol I think every woman who has been around a man can relate to this!! My pet peeve is in cleaning up. My hubby wipes the counter top but only within a certain area. The rest of the counter is ignored ...like he doesn't see the splattering on the backsplash of the counter..

Well.. okay I got to admit... Yeah I have that blindness too sometimes. Although it is not everyday, but there were times I really can't find something and I have to ask my mom about it. And then she would nag because it was just right in front of me or under some table where I said I have already checked too.

Well, I'm plagued by gremlins who think it's a hoot to put back whatever they've taken (after I yell at them) in the last place I've looked...