A. A. A. D. D.: Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.
Melissa always sends the best ones! Always true!
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 mailbox 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 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 inside the house to my desk, where I find the
can 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 realize 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, 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 driveway is flooded, the
car isn't washed, the bills aren't paid, there is a warm can of Coke
sitting on the counter, there is still only one check in my check
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. 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 who I have sent it to. Don't laugh
-- if this isn't you yet, your day is coming!
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