Saturday, March 10, 2007

Help! I've got AAADD

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 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 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 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 realize 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 tha t 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 driveway is flooded 
the car isn't washed, 
the bills aren't paid, 
there is a warm can of Coke sitting on the counter, 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 favor, will you? 
Forward this message to everyone you know, because I don't remember who 
I have send it to. 

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

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