Looking but not seeing...hearing but not listening...

Last Saturday morning, my brothers and sisters-in-law, together with my son and daughter and a niece, were waiting in the house for another brother and his wife, before we go together for our annual Cheng Beng visit to clear the weeds and pray at our ancestors' graves. My daughter was seated next to my son. After 5 minutes of chat, a brother looked at my daughter and suddenly exclaimed, 'You're back!' He looked but did not notice that my daughter and not my daughter-in-law was sitting next to my son!

At a wedding dinner recently, I told my good friend (host, who is bride's father) that because I had been busy being a new grandfather (we actually travelled on the same day to KL for the dinner and it was our first visit since the baby's arrival), I could not attend their earlier event. Last Saturday evening, I called him when in son's house and he overheard baby cries and asked about it. I said, 'I told you at the dinner!' and he replied that whatever people said to him at the dinner did not really register!

Thinking about it, both cases involved seniors... quite understandable, but more amusing I think.

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