OT...AAADD

AAADD

Recently, I was diagnosed with A. A. A. D. D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder. This is how it manifests:

I decide to wash my car.

As I start toward the garage, I notice that there is mail on the hall table.

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 trash can under the table, and notice that the trash can is full.

So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the trash first.

But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out the trash 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 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 splash some water on the flowers, but most 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 aren't watered, there is still only one check in my checkbook, 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.

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

Don't laugh. That is a normal day for me everyday.

WOW Thanks alot, Now I know what's wrong with my wife! Is there a cure for it? And to think I always called her "sidetrack Sally" LOL mike

I hate to think what I'll be like as I age, because at 30, sounds a lot like me now!

I find unopened sodas all over the house, in the truck, on the workbench, etc.. and can never figure out why there's never any in the fridge.. Why cause I carry one with me to a location, and get sidetracked..

Never get anything done either.. too busy being sidetracked lol..

Brad

I suffer cronic dry eye. My teenage children tell me their problems, my wife tells me what upsets her and telemarketers tell me about starving children in far away lands, yet, not a tear. People at work would tell me all sorts of drama stuff, and never a tear from me. I figure that I probably need that Restasis.

I don't think it has as much to do with age as it does with just having way too much to do and way too little time to get it all done. I'm 43, headed downhill to 44 first of the year, and I've been having those kinds of days for the past 15 years or so.....at least......

Sounds like my wife. I may be slow but I am methodical to a fault

Thanks for the grin - shared it with Mrs. ShepFL to start her day.

Go to a good doctor, he/she may send you to someplace like Mayo Clinic. Sometimes they can do wonders.