Tuesday, August 21, 2007

AAADD ~ know the symptoms

My friend Carole send me this email:

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 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 one 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 I'd 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.
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,
there is a warm can of Coke sitting on the counter,
the flowers don't have enough water,
there is still only one 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 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 favor.
Forward this message to everyone you know, because I don't remember who I've sent it to.
Don't laugh -- if this isn't you yet, your day is coming!!

(Yes, yes, I know that you've already received this in your email a couple of times, but when have we ever talked about it? Now's the time, so tell me if this has NEVER happened to you. Of course it has!)

6 comments:

Dewey said...

I'm an early bloomer, I guess, because I've been like this since toddlerhood!

Margreet said...

Oh this is hilarious Bonnie. and it all sounds too familiar for comfort...ieck!!!

Bookfool said...

Well, it's certainly all true. Love the new raccoon header. :)

Unknown said...

Well, as a friend and I said to each other, yep, this happens to us all the time, only thing is we do manage to get everything done that we set out to do - we just don't know or remember how we did it!

Anonymous said...

But which one is our Bonnie Jacobs?! I did my name and most of the images are actually me or photos I have used on my blog. I had already discovered by googling my name that there is another Colleen Redman who writes on topics that I might have written about, which is kind of spooky.

Funny how you found my name post!

Jennifer said...

lol I dunno, I have days like that and I'm only 26.