Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder

AAADD – Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder

This is how it manifests ….. 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 mail on the front verandah table that I brought up from the letter box earlier, just
after the mailman had been.

I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car. I put my car
keys on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage bin beside the
table, and notice that the bin is full. So, I 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 post box when I take
out the garbage anyway (and the mailman picks up the mail at noon)… I may as well pay the bills first. So, I take my cheque book off the table, and see that there is only 1 cheque left. My spare cheque book is in my desk in the study, so I go inside the house to my desk where I find the can of Coke I’d been drinking earlier this morning.

I know I going to look for my cheque book, but first I need to push
the Coke can aside so that I don’t accidentally knock it over. The Coke is warm, so I decide to put it in the refrigerator to make it
cold again. As I head toward the kitchen with the Coke, a vase of
flowers on the dining room table catches my eye — they need water.

I put the Coke on the dining room table and 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 put more water in the flowers. I set the glasses back down on the table, go to the kitchen sink to get a jug and fill it with water and suddenly spot the TV remote on the window sill. Some-one left it there.

I realise that tonight when we go to watch TV, I’ll be looking for the
remote, but I won’t remember that it’s on the window sill, so I decide to put it back in the lounge room where it belongs, but first I’ll water the flowers. I pour some water in the jug, but spill some on
the floor. So, I set the remote back on the kitchen bench, 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 cheque’s aren’t written for the bills to be paid
– there is a warm can of Coke sitting on the dining room table
– the flowers don’t have enough water,
– there is still only 1 cheque in my cheque book,
– I can’t find the remote,
– I can’t find my glasses,
– the garbage hasn’t been taken out
– 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, and I’m really tired now.

I realise 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 favour. Forward this message to everyone you know, because I don’t remember who the hell I’ve sent it to.

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.

CATA
Asset Protection Specialist
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