Random Mind

Why is it that I can remember useless information very accurately at the drop of a hat, yet information that I really need to retain I tend to lose it really easily?

For example, I can tell you things like what I ordered the first time I went to a certain restaurant, who I was with, why I was with them, and it all happened 10 years ago, at least. Or that I can recall conversations I had with people, just about to a T. Or quotes from movies/tv, and song lyrics. All these things, even songs I haven't sung or even necessarily heard in years I can still sing word for word. I can do almost the entire dialogues of several movies. Even if I drink, I am able to remember things with accuracy, which has been proven when one person tries to tell me how some situation or another came about, and I counter and say what I know happened and usually someone else is like 'Yeah that's true,' thus the person trying to make crap up about me should feel nice and embarrassed by the fact I just called them out on trying to screw with me.

So my memory doesn't falter there, yet when it would come to math, or right now as I am doing training, I kept having the same issues. Like ok, yesterday was a training day for me and it seemed easy enough before the store was open. Then when actually dealing with people and customers, it was all lost on me and I kept having issues. In an 8 hour shift I was still having the same problems. Hopefully that gets better because otherwise my co-workers are going to think I'm an idiot.

Meanwhile, I'll continue to gather useless information on things like celebrity gossip, movies, music, and tv. Maybe some day that stuff will end up benefiting me somehow.