AAADD

[VTRgirl]

Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. (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 my car needs washing.

As I start toward the garage, I notice that there is mail on the porch table that I brought up from the mail box earlier.

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 garbage can under the table, and notice that the can 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 mailbox when I take out the garbage anyway, I may as well pay the bills first.

I take my cheque book off the table, and see 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 drink that I had been drinking.

I'm going to look for my cheques, but first I need to push the drink aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over. I see that the drink 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 drink, a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye--they need to be watered.

I set the drink 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 realise that tonight when we go to watch TV, I will 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 den 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 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 drink sitting on the counter.
* The flowers don't have enough water.
* There is still only one 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 long, 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.

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

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

GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY.
GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL.
LAUGHING AT YOURSELF IS THERAPEUTIC.

[Pete.L]

Bin there, Got that

[Badger]

Been where & got what

Alan

[sirch345]

That A.A.A.D.D. is known in the medical profession as contagious
It bl**dy must be

Nice one VTRgirl[/b]

[cupasoop]

Time to put my hands up......I think I've got some of this AAADD.

About 3 weeks ago I left work in Edinburgh heading to Glasgow to pick her up . The temp gauge in the car said the outside temp was 26.5 degs. A bit of a scorcher. 40 mins later I pick her up, only to be greeted with "Jesus Christ, any chance we could have the heater off in here!". Yup, i'd driven 40 miles in 26 deg heat with the heater on. I meant to turn on the air conditioning when i got in the car and turned the heater on instead. Doh!

[sirch345]

See Rich CONTAGIOUS

If the truth be known we probably all have got a bit of it, the trouble is the older you get the more you seem to have (I'll wait for rude comment)

[VTRgirl]

Rich, it's not so worrisome that you turned on the heater instead of the aircon... but to not notice for 40 miles???? Were you aware one's ability to monitor & maintain haemostasis (thermostat, amongst other things) also declines with age?

And sirch (I'd hate to disappoint...) true, true. When I was younger I used to get it a bit now & then, but now that I'm older I seem to be getting it all the time!

Now I've forgotten what we were talking about...