Recently, I was diagnosed with A. A. A. D. D. -- Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.
This is how it manifests itself:
One day, I decided to wash my car.
As I started toward the garage, I noticed that there was mail on the hall table.
I decided to sort through the mail before I washed the car.
I lay my car keys down on the table, put the junk mail in the trash can under the table, and noticed that the trash can was full.
So, I decided to put the bills back on the table and took out the trash first.
But then I thought, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out the trash anyway, I may as well pay the bills first.
So, I take my chequebook off the table, and see that there is only one cheque left.
My extra cheques are in my desk in the study, so I go to my desk where I find a half-full can of Coke that I had been drinking.
I'm going to look for my cheques, 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 decided that I should put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold.
As I headed 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 discovered my reading glasses that I had been searching for all morning.
I decided that I had better put them back on my desk, but first I was going to water the flowers.
I set the glasses back down on the counter, filled a container with water and suddenly I spotted the TV remote.
Someone left it on the kitchen table.
I realized 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 decided to put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I'll water the flowers.
I splashed some water on the flowers, but most of it spills on the floor.
So, I set the remote back down on the table, got some towels and wiped up the spill.
Then I headed down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do in the first place.
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 cheque in my
chequebook, 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.
Don't laugh . . . . . . If this hasn't happened to you yet, your day IS coming!