Just been sent this and it made me It would be me if it wasn't for making a list on here every morning!
"Recently, I was diagnosed with A. A. A. D. D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.
This is how it manifests itself:
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 bring the mail inside and go through it before I wash the car.
I lay my car keys on the table, put the
junk mail in the garbage can 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 cheque book off the table and see that there is only one cheque left.
My extra cheques are in my desk in the study, so I go to my desk where I
find the can of Coke I'd been drinking.
I'm going to look for my cheques but first I need to push the Coke aside so
that I don't accidentally knock it over.
The Coke is getting warm and I decide to 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 water.
I put the Coke on the counter 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 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 to remember what I was planning to do.
At the end of the day:
- The car isn't washed
- The bills aren't paid
- The garbage hasn't been taken out
- There is a warm can of Coke sitting on the counter
- The flowers don't have enough water
- There is still only one cheque in my cheque 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 damn day 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 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!"