Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder (AAADD)
AAADD - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder
For those of you that don't get this, you will, your day is coming.............
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 front
verandah table that I brought up from the letterbox earlier, just after the mailman had been.
I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car. I put my car
keys on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage bin beside the
table, and notice that the bin 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 post box when I take
out the garbage anyway (and the mailman picks up the mail at noon). I may as well pay the bills first. So, I take my cheque book off the table, and see that there is only 1 cheque left. My spare cheque book is in my desk in the study, so I go inside the house to my desk where I find the can of Coke I’d been drinking earlier this morning.
I know I was going to look for my cheque book, but first I need to push the Coke can aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over. The Coke is warm, so I decide to put it in the refrigerator to make it cold again.
As I head toward the kitchen with the Coke, a vase of flowers on the
dining room table catches my eye -- they need water.
I put the Coke on the dining room table 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 put more water in the flowers. I set the glasses back down on the table, go to the kitchen sink to get a jug and fill it with water and suddenly spot the TV remote on the window sill. Some one left it there.
I realize 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 window sill, so I decide
to put it back in the lounge room where it belongs, but first I'll water
the flowers. I pour some water in the jug, but spill some on the floor.
So, I set the remote back on the kitchen bench, 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 cheque's aren't written for the bills to be paid
- there is a warm can of Coke sitting on the dining room table
- 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,
- the garbage hasn't been taken out
- 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 now.
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.
Don't laugh -- if this isn't you yet, your day is coming!!
GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY.
GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL.
LAUGHING AT YOUR-SELF IS THERAPEUTIC.
Originally Posted by DingDong
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Bummer! Grabbed my receipt and headed back down to get the loo paper, but when I got to the office, upon checking my receipt I noted I hadn't even ben charged for it!
Good luck! 
John.
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