Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder

jaybee

Someone recently sent this to me and I thought it funny (until I realised just how true it is!):

Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D.

Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.

This is how it manifests:



I decided to wash my car. As I start toward the garage, I notice that there is mail on the hall table. I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car. I lay my car keys down on the table, put the junk mail in the trashcan under the table, and notice that the trashcan is full.



So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the trash first. But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out the trash anyway, I may as well pay the bills first.



I take my checkbook off the table, and see that there is only one check left. My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go to my desk where I find the bottle of coke that I had been drinking.



I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the coke aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over. I see that the coke is getting warm, and I decide I should 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 to be watered. I set the coke down on the counter, and I 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 set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with water and suddenly I spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the kitchen table. I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, we will be looking for the remote, but nobody will remember that it's on the kitchen table, so I decide to put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I'll water the flowers.



I splash some water on the flowers, but most of it spills on the floor.

So, I set the remote back down 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 warm bottle of coke sitting on the counter, the flowers aren't watered, there is still only one check in my checkbook, 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 long, and I'm really tired. 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.



Do me a favor, will you? Forward this message to everyone you know, because I don't remember to whom it has been sent.

Gen_Wavell

That is so funny. I did not realise other folk had this problem too. Thank You so much.

pmuser

OH so very true ! ! ! ! now what were we talking about.?


Anyone seen my keyboard I had it here a minute ago.

Sofa_Sogood

Good reading.

I can identify with that. Find myself in the middle of the stairs and can't remember if I'm going up or down

SnowyOwl_2

Occasionally find myself logging into the BBC website to confirm what day and date it is...and I'm 38. At least I remember why I log in though!

Edinburghlass_2

I would visit the BBC website daily if it told me I was 38

Peter-Pan_5

thank you for posting this my wife was just asking me why are you wandering about with a dogs lead in your hand,we don`t have a dog!!!!

I was going to take out my neighbours pooch about an hour ago.!!!!!!!!!!

schoolfundraiser

Being an oldie mum is so much worse because you not only have to sort yourself out but you have to try and keep track of what they are doing as well! I did two packed lunches for my daughter this morning because I'd lost the first one! I've been blaming it on the Borrowers but it must be me and I'm not 50 until later this year!

Sofa_Sogood

I've been looking for this topic for two days!