THINGS THAT ARE STUCK IN MY BRAIN FOR WHICH I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO USE:
- The B-side songs for every Men at Work single on 45
- The usual starting lineup for the 1979 Cleveland Indians
- Casualty counts for a host of World War I battles
- Detailed plotlines for most episodes of The Andy Griffith Show
- The quadratic formula
- My News-Herald paper route from 1981 (seriously, I could deliver that route today and not miss a house)
- The fact that I took the SAT on this date in 1987.
To that last point...who cares? Why would my brain decide this is something worth remembering?
It also likes to point out that, after I finished the test, I drove directly to Solon High School to join my track team at the Solon Relays.
Is there any practical use for this information? Of course not. But this has never deterred my brain, which delights in storing away the most irrelevant of nuggets.
On the other hand, it will not reveal to me such things as where I put my wedding ring, the exact ingredients in my wife's favorite Starbucks drink, and which light switches control which lights in our house (the house where we have lived for nearly 18 years).
Why, brain, why? Why do you do this to me?
Maybe you explained it to me one time and now I'm just forgetting.
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