What if...?

So as I was making a leisurely stroll to class today in 68 degree and sunny weather I was struck by a thought. I watched as a squirrel darted from place to place digging frantically for what I can only assume were hidden acorns. He never found any. I wondered to myself, what if a squirrel developed amnesia or was struck by a rare form of squirrel alzheimers. I say rare form, because Dateline hasn't done any specials on it lately and I'm guessing it's not that common. Can you imagine anything more frustrating. It's as if you were to go and bury all your wordly possessions like your laptop/car/hairdryer for example in the ground and then not remember where you did. I know all of you reading this would panic at the loss of at least one of the previously mentioned items (for me personally, I would have to say all 3). Eventually you would dig up something, but it might be someone else's sneakers or toupee and hardly the item you were looking for. Do squirrels mark their acorns with special squirrel markings, or will any acorn do? In that case, you gotta wonder if some squirrels just sit around most of the year doing nothing and then just run around digging up all the other squirrel's acorns when they get hungry? That hardly seems fair. This is point when I arrived at my class and had to end my inner musings about the life of a squirrel.