dyslexia.. the real truth

So, i confess, Financial Dyslexia is a fairly new affliction…

My whole life has been playing catch up to my Date Dyslexia. I can’t begin to tell you how many appointments, meetings i’ve missed because of it. Oddly enough, I’m a stickler for time, so am never late… just typically show up for said appointment/meeting on totally the wrong date.

Classic Date Dyslexic moment… showing up for a flight home a day early.

Unfortunatly for me, the woman at the counter didn’t catch it. So i arrive to my connecting flight in an airport far away… only to have them say “hay lady.. your flight’s tomorrow”…. duh right…

I mean i do have a bit of an excuse… having worked out of a home office for 10+ years, days blend. It’s a funny thing… when the talk at the coffee machine isn’t “Wow it’s hump day” or “TGIF” how that lends itself to not knowing what day it is  or if it’s the weekend or weekday…  or even what month it is. (once i even had to double check the year when signing a cheque… WOW… double dyslexia).

But the very funniest story (cause at some point you just have to laugh in the face of it)… was one day walking the dogs. 

I ran into a fellow dog walking friend, who i hadn’t seen for months.  I was asking her how she was, what’s been going on… all that kind of catching up stuff. Her family was from Calgary, so in that catch up vein… so i ask “So when you heading back home for Christmas?”

She stopped, looked really puzzled…. kind of thought for a moment and said ” Uhhhh…You mean, next Christmas??”.  No.. says i, this Christmas…. completly oblivious to the fact that it’s may, there’s not a snow drop in sight, the birdies are singing and flowers are a blooming…

Suddenly i came to earth, had a look around me and totally clued in on the ridiculousness of what i had just asked…. can’t tell you how hard we laughed at that one…. course she never let me forget it!