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AAADD

(Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder)

This is how Age Activated Attention Deficit

Disorder manifests itself :

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 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, I

will be looking

for the re! mote, 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 can of Coke sitting on the

counter

the flowers don't have enough water

there is still only one check in my check book

I can't find the remote

I can't find my glasses

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 who I sent it too.

Hell, did I even hit

the send button?

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

is coming!