I Forgot My Mega-Memory!

It had to be the funniest, or embarrassing (depending on how you take it) thing I have ever done. Being a night owl I often found myself watching late night infomercials. Since I'm not too gullible I don't buy the stuff they are selling. However I was intrigued by an infomercial about a product called "Mega-Memory". It was a set of tapes that was supposed to help you build your memory. My brother wanted to try it out too so we decided to go into it together. That way if it didn't work, neither of us would be out much money. Well I got the tapes and started the program. It actually did help out some. It was really good at helping you remember lists of things and even remember names. It was around 1995. I was doing an assignment in a college class where we had to present a product to the class. When I got the assignment from my professor, I decided the product I would present would be the Mega-Memory. In my presentation I had a friend give me a list of 20 words and then I was supposed to be able to repeat in order the words back to her. I should have cheated and had my friend give me pre-planned words, but I decided to play it straight and really use my new found skills and improved memory to do it on the fly in class. Just like they say, “No good deed goes unpunished”. I completely blew it. She gave me the words and being nervous anyway because I had to do it in front of the class, I forgot almost every word. My professor with a sarcastic voice said “That’s a good mega memory you have there” The room busted with laughter and even I could see the humor in the whole thing so I laughed embarrassingly along with them. After class I was happy to get out of there and walked down the hall with some of my friends. Then it suddenly dawned on me. I had left the Mega-Memory tapes in the class room. I then yelled out. “Oh no, I forgot my Mega-Memory!" "

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: Sounds like a wonderful scam, errrr, I mean product.

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The ironic thing is, I do remember that the "peg list" from oh so many years ago!!

1: Toe
2: foot
3: knee
4: Rear
5: Muscle
6: Shoulder
7: Neck
8: Face
9: Top

The most of the "Tree List" too:

1: Tree
2:
3: Stool
4: Table
5: Glove
6: Gun
7: Dice
8: Pool
9: Cat
10: Bowling
11: Goal Post
12: Eggs
13: Witch
14:
15:
16: Drivers License
17: Magazine
18: Vote
19:
20: Cigarettes

I didn't use the tree list much, but I used the peg list a lot in paramedic school. All those lists of signs and symptoms, drugs and dosages and stuff life that. It failed me miserably when it came to Advanced Cardiac Life Support algorithms though (lol). ACLS is only a few days long and I relied on it to help me out. I ended up having to cram the night before the Megacode test just to pass... as it turns out, I ended up having to retest.

So, yes it worked, yes it was worth the money (but only because we split the cost) and NO I wouldn't recommend it to others. ;~D

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