What is my name?

Lucy was upset with everyone in the office. She could not find her spectacles and had been searching the room for it for about five minutes.  And then she started threatening jokingly that if she did not find it "she will go to her hometown".

Knowing which part of the country she came from, her colleagues immediately showed more interest in what she was looking for and asked her about it . When she replied that it was her spectacles, one of them  asked her if  what she was looking for was  different from what she was wearing. She touched it, nodded and slowly headed back to her desk in surprise. She had been looking for something right under her nose!

This is not fiction , it is a true story. Take this other one of Naa  Amatsoo who says she  often walks to the refrigerator, opens it and forgets what she is looking for until she goes back  to where she  originally was and retraces her steps. 

Forgetting seems to be part of our normal lives and many people have