reekie29
03-30-2005, 11:19 AM
Getting old sucks but a friend of mine told me once that it beats the alternative. ;)
Hope you are still able to laugh at yourself and enjoy this little nugget someone emailed me today.
Recently, I was diagnosed with A. A. A. D. D. - Age Activated
Attention Deficit Disorder. This is how it manifests:
I decided 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, we will be looking for the remote, but nobody will
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.
Do me a favor, will you? Forward this message to everyone you know,
because I don't remember to whom it has been sent... and I have to
go wash the car.
Hope you are still able to laugh at yourself and enjoy this little nugget someone emailed me today.
Recently, I was diagnosed with A. A. A. D. D. - Age Activated
Attention Deficit Disorder. This is how it manifests:
I decided 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, we will be looking for the remote, but nobody will
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.
Do me a favor, will you? Forward this message to everyone you know,
because I don't remember to whom it has been sent... and I have to
go wash the car.