Does this happen to you?

[Sabine]

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 checkbook 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 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 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 day long, and I'm really tired.



Don't laugh -- if this isn't you yet, your day is coming!

[Irishrose]

:laugh3: Well, o.k. I think I qualify.

Drove to work with lunch in the car.

Stopped at convenience store for hot tea.

Bought two lottery tickets, got tea and started for the car.

Realized I needed something else, went back inside and couldn't remember why I was there.

Oh, yeah, need salad for lunch.

Open car door, lunch on seat, tea in hand. Open seat to hold tea and realize that there are about 50 little straw papers in the bottom of the holder. Clean out holder and notice that I am now late for work.

Start off for work and notice that I have two envelopes to be mailed so stop at the post office - am now REALLY late for work.

Get to work and run inside. Tea and lunch are still in the car. Out the door I go to retrieve the tea and lunch. Good thing, my purse is still in the car - that is not a good thing!

Grab purse, lock car and see that tea and lunch are still on the seat.

Unlock door, get tea and lunch and head for the door. It begins to rain so I go back to get my umbrella but now I only have two hands so balancing tea on lunch with purse swinging a great deal makes tea spill. I try to stop long enough to get my balance again when the wind grabs the umbrella and now I am wet, mad and late. The umbrella is hitting me in the back of the legs from the wind whipping the darn thing around my wrist.

This all takes place in less than 20 minutes. I need a nap!

[Don]

Now add some random phone calls and a couple kids in there and things really get fun. :)