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From: heartland
Date: 08-22-2005, 12:31 PM (1 of 7)
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 mail box 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 check book 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. :yawn:
Donna
User: heartland
Member since: 05-23-2001
Total posts: 88
From: DorothyL
Date: 08-22-2005, 01:44 PM (2 of 7)
That's me!
Dorothy
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002
Total posts: 3883
From: SummersEchos
Date: 08-22-2005, 01:51 PM (3 of 7)
How true how true
Summer

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User: SummersEchos
Member since: 09-29-2004
Total posts: 884
From: Bama
Date: 08-22-2005, 05:12 PM (4 of 7)
So THAT'S what is wrong with me. :monkey:
User: Bama
Member since: 03-21-2000
Total posts: 2116
From: Chrysantha
Date: 08-22-2005, 09:00 PM (5 of 7)
I call it the 'after forty' syndrome...I especially like when ya walk through a room, stop, and look around, wondering what the heck you were supposed to do, and when you were gonna do it.
(also known as brain farts :bolt: :bg:
Chrys
User: Chrysantha
Member since: 09-06-2002
Total posts: 2414
From: Pudge99
Date: 08-23-2005, 09:18 AM (6 of 7)
After 40? I've been this way my whole life and I am only 32.
Gina
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User: Pudge99
Member since: 10-30-2001
Total posts: 1375
From: Carmela
Date: 08-26-2005, 12:48 PM (7 of 7)
So now I have an excuse !!!!!! I am 70 Now I have a name for what I do It makes me feel better??? :coffee2:
User: Carmela
Member since: 10-21-2001
Total posts: 38
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