A. A. A. D. D.

[wombat 5]

Recently, I was diagnosed with A. A. A. D. D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit 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 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 mail box 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 a well pay the bills first. I take my check book off the table and see hat 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 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 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 one 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 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 favour, will you? Forward this message to everyone 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!

[Soi7 1]

Sounds like you have been following me around !!

[ashboy 22]

Funny.

 

 

 

 

But have you seen my keys anywhere?

[rockinjerry 2]

Damn! That is not funny! I, too, suspect that you have been following me around!

 

Help! Has anyone seen my reading glasses?

[Krowdon 0]

 

This happens to me ALL THE TIME! LOL

 

[rb 20]

As I turn on the hose in the driveway,

wombee;

might wonna turn off the water bout now, driveway should be watered sufficantly by now

[short 215]

My neighbor has turned my water hose off numerous times after I had gotten distracted while waiting for the dog bowl to fill. The thing that clues him off is the sqish sqish as he walks through his yard.

[melbourne_mick 0]

Shit i was going to say something but i forgot

[sinbinjack 261]

erm ah ohhyea bye