A.a.a.d.d.

[MilDoc]

Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder

KNOW THE SYMPTOMS! Thank goodness there's a name for this disorder.

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 it needs washing.

As I start toward the garage, I notice mail on the porch table that
I brought up from the mail box earlier.

I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car.

I lay my car keys 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 check book 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 inside the house to my desk where I find the can of Pepsi I'd been drinking.

I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the Pepsi aside
so that I don't accidentally knock it over.

The Pepsi is getting warm, and I decide to put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold.

As I head toward the kitchen with the Pepsi, a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye. They need water.

I put the Pepsi on the counter and 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 spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the kitchen table.

I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, I'll 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 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 Pepsi sitting on the counter
• the flowers don't have enough water,
• there is still only 1 check in my check 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, 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 favour.

Forward this message to everyone you know, because I don't remember
who the **** I've sent it to.

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

[cabinetman]

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

I am laughing, it is me. More than once looked everywhere for tools or keys and sometimes find them in my back pocket.
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[herb fellows]

I guess it's like that thing where they say everybody has a twin somewhere in the world; I never would have believed 2 people could have the exact same experience.
The sad part is, it will start all over tomorrow!

[TB Roye]

It's Me, Spend 2 hours aday picking up everything I left laying around the day before, if I can find everything.

Tom

[Shep]

Amen brother

[gsmittle]

BTDT. Still doing it, in fact. I once spent two hours looking for the glasses I was already wearing.

g.

[Richard in Smithville]

Or calling your cell phone because you can't remember where you left it.....( I do).