For those of you that don't get this, you will, your day is coming..........
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AAADD - 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 it needs washing.
As I start toward the garage, I notice mail on the front verandah table that
I brought up from the letter box 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 one
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 bottle of Coke I'd been drinking earlier this
morning.
I know I'm 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 bottle 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.
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AAADD - 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 it needs washing.
As I start toward the garage, I notice mail on the front verandah table that
I brought up from the letter box 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 one
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 bottle of Coke I'd been drinking earlier this
morning.
I know I'm 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 bottle 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.
