So I thought I had developed dementia the other day.
I went to the station to go to work, a trip I do occasionally. When I do I'm often late so I just jump on the train and ask the guard if I can pay him.
But the other day I bought my ticket for a change. But somehow by the time I got on the train I had forgotten that and asked the guard if I could pay him on the train.....
And it gets worse.
I paid the guard, so now I have 2 tickets. Still oblivious.
I get off at my stop and await another train. That train reports that it has to terminate halfway. So I get off at the halfway termination and ready to leave the station to get a bus for the rest of the way.
I see a guard and suddenly I'm in 'Oh sh*t, I haven't got a ticket, I'll have to explain to the guard.'
I gave him a garbled explanation of why I didn't have a ticket. He sorted one for me. I paid for my third ticket for my one journey..... ;
then wander off out to get the bus...
Standing waiting for the bus it comes back to me that I bought a ticket off the guard on the train already.
I go back to the train station (now missing the bus I needed!) and explain to the guard in an even more garbled fashion that I already got a ticket before I got the ticket with him.
He refunds me a ticket and looks at me kinda strange. But hey, it's a woman, whatever.
I wander back to the bus station wondering what the hell is wrong with me and then it hits me, I bought a ticket right at the very beginning of the journey!!!!
I go back to the guard (no, there wasn't anyone else I could go to just him, lol) and explain that actually.........thinking about it a little more.....I might just have another ticket that I purchased at the start of my journey.
Now he's not looking at me as if I'm a woman, he's looking at me as if I'm a patient and he's the doctor. He's concerned.
'Sorry, I'm not normally like this, a lot's happened recently,' I said. But there really was no recovering from it.
And throughout it all I was sweating like a pig.
Thankfully that little episode is over and I have clarity back now.