Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder (AAADD)

[placidfemme]

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.

[skidMark]

theres always tommorrow

[yungatart]

Have you been spying on me PF - that is exactly how my days seem to go..

[Motu]

Ahhh,thank God there is an explanation,this has been driving me crazy the last couple of years,and my business has really suffered because of it - is there a support group in my area?

I used to be able to churn out a fair amount of work each day,but these days I work all day but seem to achieve nothing.Today for the first time I implimented something I used to do years ago - a list of jobs to do today....I only had 3,and I have ticked all of them! Without the list I don't think I would of done them.

You may laugh,but AAADD is real to me!

[Edbear]

Yup! Called into the Supermarket this evening to pick up a couple of things, got o the checkout with the milk, breakfast muffins and a couple other things including a large 12-pack of toilet paper which was on special. Operator's assistant asked if I'd like it all in one bag and of course I said, "Sure!" (You know, saving the planet...).

Well, got home and unpacked then realised that large pkt of loo paper was missing! 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!

So this extra large packet of toilet paper literally disappeared from under my nose and didn't even get checked by the operator! I bought another pack and still have no idea what went wrong!

[miSTa]

That is just so true, it explains everything

[Meekey_Mouse]

I'm only 17 and that happens to me!!! Oh no....

[trumpy]

Been like this for years.......I'm doomed..

[Lou Girardin]

That's NOT funny.
It's too true.

[skidMark]

I'm only 17 and that happens to me!!! Oh no....

really.......

[Terminated]

realised that large pkt of loo paper was missing! Bummer! Grabbed my receipt and headed back down to get the loo pape:

Can't buy loo paper without eggs, or was it milk....

[Al]

That is absolutely true!

Al

[Lissa]

It comes with having children too (I blame baby brain).... went to the supermarket, brought some butter and things not long ago. I always stick my wallet in the grocery bag, so I can carry that and my nearly two year old. Got home stuck the bag in the fridge. Next day, I looked everywhere for my wallet, started to get a bit worried, thinking about going to the police station to report it, until I had to get the butter and there was my wallet in the fridge.... duh!!

[oldrider]

I'm only 17 and that happens to me!!! Oh no....

In 50 yrs time you will be as old as me!

Advice: Store a lot of pencils and paper, your daily AAADD list of items is going to be a 100miles long!

Mine is! Good luck! John.

[scumdog]

I've got an extreme form of it - I keep losing my AAADD form I have to remind my of what to do.

Just luck these keys are stuck on the keyboard AND it has a long wire thingy that keeeps it attached to the 'puter or I wouldn't be able to post this.......