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until they were all listening only to me. And that’s when it happened. Mid-sentence, I totally forgot what point I was making. I frantically scraped the bottom of my cranial barrel for a morsel of sense but nothing was forthcoming. In a panic, I strung together a meaningless sentence, peppered with weighty phrases such as “inclusive growth” and “infrastructure development”, as my voice tapered down to a whisper.

The funny thing is that no one looked at me judgmentally. All I saw was sympathy in their eyes.

That’s because, at our age, it happens to everyone. E-mail lifestyle@sundaytimes.co.za On Twitter @NdumisoNgcobo