RECENTLY, I WAS DIAGNOSED WITH AAADD - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.
This is how it manifests itself:
I decided to water my garden. As I turned on the hose in the driveway,
I looked over at my car and decided my car needed washing.
I started toward the garage, I noticed that there was mail on the porch table that I brought up from the mail box earlier.
I decided to go through the mail before I washed the car.
I laid down my car keys on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table, and noticed that the can was full. So I decided to put the bills back on the table and take out the garbage first.
But then I thought, 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 took my check book off the table, and saw that there was only one check left. My extra checks were in my desk in the study, so I went inside the house to my desk where I found a can of Coke that I had been drinking earlier.
I was intending to look for my checks, but first I needed to push the Coke aside so that I didn't accidentally knock it over. I noticed that the Coke was getting warm, and I decided I should put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold.
As I headed toward the kitchen with the Coke, a vase of flowers on the counter caught my eye-- they needed to be watered, so I set the Coke down on the counter, and I discovered my reading glasses that I'd been searching for all morning. Then I decided I better put them back on my desk, but first I wanted to water the flowers.
I set the glasses back down on the counter, filled a container with water and suddenly I spotted the TV remote. Someone left it on the kitchen table.
I realized 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 table, so I decided to put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I need to water the flowers.
I poured some water in the flowers, but quite a bit of it spilled on the floor. So, I set the remote back on the table, got some towels and wiped up the spill, then headed 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 checkbook, I can't find the remote, or my glasses, and I don't remember what in the world 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 exhausted!
