I’m pretty absentminded, but for the most part I’ve learned how to handle it. It helps to have many of the same necessary objects. I’m always putting down my reading glasses and then can’t find them, so I have ten or so pairs scattered around my apartment and office.
Today I hit the pinnacle of absentmindedness though. I couldn’t find my glasses, so I went to the bedstand, found a pair, and tried to put them on, only then it turned out I had a pair on already.
Jack Silbert, curator