A.A.A.D.D.- KNOW THE
SYMPTOMS.....
Thank goodness there's a name for this disorder.
Somehow
I feel better, even though I have it!!
Recently, I was
diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. -
Age Activated Attention Deficit
Disorder.
This is how it manifests itself:
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 head towards the garage, I
notice mail on the porch table that I
picked up from the post man
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 recycling box
under
the table, and notice that the recycling box is full.
So, I decide to put
the bills back on the table and take out the
recycling first.
But then
I think, since I'm going to be near the postbox when I take out
the recycling
paper anyway, I may as well pay the bills first.
I take my cheque book
off the table, And notice that there is only one
cheque left.
My extra
cheques are in my desk in the study, so I go inside the house
to my desk
where I find the cup of coffee I'd been drinking.
I'm going to look for
my cheques, but first I need to push the coffee
aside so that I don't
accidentally knock it over.
The coffee is getting cold, and I decide to
make another cup.
As I head toward the kitchen with the cold coffee, a
vase of flowers on
the worktop catches my eye - the flowers need
water.
I put the coffee on the worktop 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 put the
glasses back down on the worktop, fill a container with water
and suddenly
spot the TV remote control. Someone left it on the kitchen
table.
I
realise that tonight when we 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 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
put 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 cold cup of coffee 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 damn day, and I'm really
tired.
I realise this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help
for
it, but first I'll check my e-mail.....
Don't laugh - if this isn't you yet, your day is
coming!!
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