A.A.A.D.D. - KNOW THE SYMPTOMS

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

[ Thank goodness there's a name for this disorder. Somehow I feel better, even though I have it ! ]

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 towards the garage, I notice mail on the patio table that I brought in from the letter 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 bin under the table, and notice that the bin is full. So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and empty the garbage first.

But then I notice I’d brought my cheque book out to the table to pay the bills, so I may as well pay them first. I grab my cheque book off the table, but see there is only one cheque left.

A new cheque book is in my desk in the study, so I go inside the house to my desk, where I find a can of Coke I'd been drinking.

I'm going to look for my cheques, but first I need to push the Coke aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over. The Coke is getting warm, so I go to 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 water.

I put the Coke on the counter and discover my reading glasses that I've been searching for all morning.

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, which I must have left on the kitchen table.

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 lounge where it belongs, but first I'll water the flowers.

I pour some water into the flowers, but quite a bit of it spills on the floor. So, I put the remote back on the table, get some towels to 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 1 cheque in my cheque 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.



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