(this was shared with me, and is OH so accurate! How could I not pass it along :o)
Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder
This is how it manifests:
1) I decide to water my garden.
2) As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over at my car and decide my car needs washing.
3) 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.
4) I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car.
5) I lay my car keys down on the porch table, put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table, and notice that the can is full.
6) So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and empty the garbage first.
7) 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.
8) I take my check book from my purse on the porch table, and see that there is only 1 check left.
9) 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.
10) 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.
11) As I head toward the kitchen with the Coke, a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye--they need to be watered
12) I set the Coke down on the counter, and I discover my reading glasses that I've been searching for all morning.
13) I decide I better put them back on my desk, but first I'm going to water the flowers.
14) 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.
15) 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.
16) I pour some water in the flowers, but quite a bit of it spills on the floor.
17) So, I set the remote back down on the table, get some towels and wipe up the spill.
18) 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 1 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!!
GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL.
LAUGHING AT YOURSELF IS THERAPEUTIC.
1 comment:
Maybe it WOULD be better to just sit at the computer all day long and play games and do Facebook!!
Cindi
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