Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder

AAADDRecently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. - I think it's very serious. If I remember correctly, this is how it manifests:

I decide to water my garden. As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over at my car and decide my car needs washing. As I start toward the garage, I notice that there is mail on the porch table that I brought up from the mailbox earlier. I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car. I lay my car keys down on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table, and notice that the can is full.

So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the garbage first. But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox, when I take out the garbage anyway, I may as well pay the bills first.

I take my chequebook off the table, and see that there is only 1 cheque left. My extra cheques are in my desk in the study, so I go inside the house to my desk where I find the can of Coke that I had been drinking. I'm going to look for my cheques, but first I need to push  the Coke aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over. I see that the Coke is getting warm, and I decide I should put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold.

As I head toward the kitchen with the Coke, a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye–they need to be watered. I set the Coke down on the counter, and I discover my reading glasses that I've been searching for all morning. I decide I better put them back on my desk, but first I'm going to water the flowers.

I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with water and suddenly I spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the kitchen table. I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, I will be looking for the remote, but I won't remember that it's on the kitchen  table, so I decide to put it back in the den where it belongs, but first  I'll water the flowers. I pour some water in the flowers, but quite a bit of it spills on the floor.  So, I set the remote back down on the table, get some towels and wipe up the spill.

Then, I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do.

At the end of the day:

  • the car isn't washed,
  • the bills aren't paid,
  • there is a warm can of Coke sitting on the counter,
  • the flowers don't have enough water,
  • there is still only 1 cheque in my cheque book,
  • I can't find the remote,
  • I can't find my glasses,
  • and I don't remember what I did with the car keys.

Then, when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm really baffled

because I know I was busy all day long, and I'm really tired. I realize this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for it, but first I'll check my e-mail.

Do me a favor, will you?

Share this page with everyone you know, because I don't remember to whom it has beAAADDen sent.

Don't laugh — if this isn't you yet, your day is coming!

|| Author Unknown ||

GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY
GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL
LAUGHING AT YOURSELF IS THERAPEUTIC!!!

 

sent by email from Elaine. Thank you Elaine, I sometimes have days like this. GF

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