Have you ever bought those stick people window clings for your vehicle windows?
I have. In fact, I've bought them twice. I've bought both a girl to represent me and a dog to represent Bandit. The problem is my windows are never "clean enough" to apply them and I forget I have them.
When the SUV is dirty, I think about washing it and...and I even do...(eventually)...but then it's too wet to apply the clings (the dryer at the car wash never gets my SUV completely dry, so I drive around and let the air finish the job I paid for). By the time they are dry enough to apply the clings, I have forgotten why I'm driving around town in a freshly laundered SUV.
I have actually remembered I have the clings on a day when I have clean, dry windows. Unfortunately, by that time I've usually forgotten the "safe place" I placed the clings--so I wouldn't lose them between the time I bought them and I had clean, dry windows on which to install them. That would be why I've bought them twice. I've even toyed with the idea of washing the SUV, completing the air dry on a drive to the store to purchase a third set of clings, and applying them in the store parking lot. But that would announce to the world--at least the world of the parking lot:
I can't make the short trip back home with my memory intact.
I justify my forgetfulness by rationalizing to myself: I really prefer the Chinese Crested Window Nose Art on the inside portion of the windows. After all, it's the original artwork of Bandit--my spoiled rotten baby! Justification and Rationalization are two of my specialties. Another specialty is my ability to throughly spoil Bandit rotten.
BTW, I do give Bandit a clean, blank canvas on which to create his masterpiece from time to time--I wouldn't want to stifle his creativity.
I usually wait until his masterpiece of the moment is so thick neither he nor I can see outside. :~)