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 my car 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 my car keys down 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 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 checkbook off the table
 and see that there is only 1 check left.
 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.
 
 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,
 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 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 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 email.
 

 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. 
 
 PS: I just remembered...I LEFT THE WATER RUNNING IN THE DRIVEWAY!

DON'T laugh  -  someday this will be you too !!!!!!!!!!!

I didn't realize you had to grow older to feel that way- I'm not yet 30 and have days like that!!!

Oh, that's what that's called.  Oh yeah, I've got it........bad.

 

 

So THAT'S what's wrong with me!  Apparently, it's hit my DH too.  The other day he was going to the kitchen to make himself a sundae and asked me if I wanted one.  I told him I'd love to have one, with chocolate syrup, whipped cream and nuts but no cherry.  I told him he should probably write it down so he wouldn't forget it and he said no, no, he could remember just fine, thank you very much.     So about 20-25 minutes later he comes back in to the living room with a big plate of bacon and eggs with hash browns.     I said, "I told you to write it down!  Where's my toast!???!"


 

"FF"

p.s. the only way I remembered this story was to write it down!!