Funny Friday

Subject: AAADD- KNOW THE SYMPTOMS

AAADD- KNOW THE SYMPTOMS

Thank goodness there's a name for this disorder. Somehow I feel better, even though I have it!!Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D . -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 porch table that I brought up from the mail box earlier. I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car. I lay my car keys on the table,put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table,and notice that the can is full.

So, I decide to put the bills backon 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 check book 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 inside the house to my desk whereI find the can of Diet Cherry Pepsi I'd been drinking. I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the Diet Cherry Pepsi aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over.

The Diet Cherry Pepsi is getting warm, and I decide to put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold. As I head toward the kitchen with the Diet Cherry Pepsi, a vase of flowers on the countercatches my eye--they need water. I put the Diet Cherry Pepsi on the counter anddiscover my reading glasses thatI'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 spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the kitchen table.

I realize 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 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 on the floor. So, I set the remote back on the table, get some towels and wipe up the spill. Then, I head down the hall trying toremember what I was planning to do.

At the end of the day: the car isn't washedthe bills aren't paid there is a warm can of Diet Cherry Pepsi 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, 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....

Have a wonderful weekend worth remebering,

Danna