A. A. A. D. D.

[JohnO]

A. A. A. D. D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.

This is how it 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 it 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 the car keys down on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table and notice that the can is full.

I therefore 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 cheque book off the table, and see that there is only one cheque leaf left. My extra cheques 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 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 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 had 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 onto 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.
- The floor is soaked.
- There is still only one cheque in my cheque book.
- I can't find the remote.
- I can't find my glasses.
- I don't remember what I did with the car keys.
- The yard is flooded.

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 email.


GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY.
GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL.
LAUGHING AT YOURSELF IS THERAPEUTIC.

John

[Michaelr5]

My story is not quite as long, but:
I packed up the computer to deliver to my customer, making sure the driver disks are all in place. The next day, I deliver the computer and remember the driver disks are all in one place - on my desk at the office. So I go back to the office, see the disks, remember I have to get an update to another program. Download the update, burn it to CD, get back in the car, drive a block, turn around to get the driver disks that are still all in one place! ON MY DESK!!!!