Pete McMartin: Multiple-choice questionnaire, and you better get them right... or you're sleeping on the couch, again

“We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created by — you know, you know, the thing.” — Then U.S. vice-president Joe Biden during the 2020 election, forgetting the words to the Declaration of Independence.

Following is a multiple-choice questionnaire for persons of a certain age.

1. You’re taking the dog for its morning walk through the neighbourhood when a woman walking her dog passes by, smiles, and asks how your three kids are doing. You have no idea who she is.

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You:

(a) Smile back and reply, “Hey, girl!”

(b) Let your dog run off-leash down the street.

(c) Admit that you have forgotten her name because you’ve been in a car accident recently and sustained a head injury that caused you to lose much of your short-term memory — a lie that, when she tells everyone in the neighbourhood about your accident, you will have to live with for the rest of your life.

2. You’re in the gym and a guy gets on the stationary bike next to you. You can’t remember his name, but you’re sure you know him from somewhere. He smiles and nods as if he knows you, although he says nothing in greeting.

He is:

(a)........

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