Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder. This is how is manifests itself:
I decide to wash my car. As I start toward to the garage, I notice
that there is mail on the hall table. 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 trash
can under the table, and notice that the trash can is full.
So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the
trash first, but then I think that since I'm going to be near the
mailbox when I take out the trash anyway, I may as well pay the bills
first.
I take my checkbook off the table and see that there is only one
check left. My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go to
my desk where I find the can of Coke that I had been drinking. I'm
going to look for my checks, 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'd 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, we will be looking
for the remote, but nobody will 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 splash some water on the flowers, but most 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
aren't watered, there is still only one check in my checkbook, 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? Forward this message to close friends you
know, because I don't remember to whom it has been sent.
Don't laugh - if this isn't you yet, your day is coming! And if I
have sent this to you before....well, now you know why you're getting
it again.
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