Long Term Memories
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
A Puzzled Memory
I was in the steam room at the JCC. It was a few weeks ago. The person in there allowed me to reduce the heat somewhat and I thanked him.
It also allowed me to mention a comic strip in the Washington Post. He said he had discontinued getting the Washington Post because the crossword puzzle had become too easy.
This reminded me of the later 1980s and early 90s. My mother used to call me at work and ask me to help her on crossword puzzles. I was good at place names and some other trivia.
The people at work thought this was something of a hoot. One day, someone came to get me out of a meeting and told me that I was needed for a crossword puzzle emergency (the meeting was boring and unnecessary).
My mother loved crossword puzzles. She had read somewhere that doing them reduces the risk of dementia but she contracted that anyway in the late 1990s.
