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A.A.A.D.D.- RECOGNIZE THE SYMPTOMS!

Thank goodness there's FINALLY a name for this disorder...."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 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, so 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.

• But then I realize that tonight when I 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 flat 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 favor. Forward this message to everyone you know, because I don't remember those I've sent it to.

If it was you who sent it to me,

I apologize!  Don't laugh -- if this isn't you YET, YOUR day is coming!

(From Tim: I got this from a Vietnam Radio/TV group but it did not have a writer's name on it to give credit. Nonetheless, I COULD have written it from experience!)