OT: Phun (G)

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I wonder if anyone else can identify with this? 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 check book 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 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 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, 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.

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