I had a session with T once in a little restaurant when she'd forgotten her keys to the office. It's funny now thinking about it and how I put a bubble around the cafe to make it safe/T-territory and didn't even think about the circumstances that might have led up to her forgetting the keys?

Near the end of our sessions together, a month or two before we terminated, T kept losing my checks and otherwise had minor problems like that; I think she was moving in preparation for retiring. But once I called her on losing the checks and she responded with a light, "if you'd been going through what I've been going through lately. . ." response but such a thing would never have occurred to me the 4-5 years earlier when we had the session in the restaurant. I just thought of her as being slightly incompetent forgetting the keys!

It's funny how our view of T can change over time. I had reasons to believe my T was mechanically and electronically-challenged from when I first saw her in the 1970's to just a year or less from when we terminated in 2005 but was finally able to tell her what I thought and she replied that "actually, I'm very good with machines/computers."

But I'd have a hard time imagining my T drinking, Jinny :-) don't know why. Must be because in the restaurant she ordered tea (and I ordered a sandwich and soda before I realized she wasn't going to eat! and had to spend the rest of the session wondering who was going to pay, how that was going to go, etc.)