A.A.A.D.D.

[Mr. Sandman]

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 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 Pepsi I'd been drinking.

I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the Pepsi aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over.

The Pepsi 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 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 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.

[ProfessorM]

Ah that is my problem. I am glad it has a title now I feel much better. Now what was I doing.

[zacs]

wow. a day in my life.
glad i'm not the only one.

[afterhours]

omg! you guys too!!!!?????

[Slipknot]

glad I'm not alone

[nightfighter]

......ummm.....I forgot.......

[Tagger]

I notice the buisier it gets the more scatter brain I get ...I need Focus Factor ... no joke .. I like when you have to find something online ,, but check the fishing sites first and in the morning you have no mapquest directions to get to work ..

[Backbeach Jake]

Guilty as charged.........

[BMEUPSCOTTY]

This is to funny. I am not alone. I think we have enough people for a support group already. "Hello, my name is Scott and I don't know what the farg I'm doing from one minute to the next."

[InTheHole]

WOW my sickness has a name, I think we ought to ... wait a minute, the dog's water dish is empty... be right back...

[JohnR]

Shiite - Uoy just reminded me I left the hose on

[FormerUser]

I actually live that way.Really.

[Raven]

when i misplaced everything (anything) i'd hunt each and every item down
no matter what...as long as it took .........to solve the mystery as to
where that particular item disapeared to...

now i just accept that i constantly misplace things and it is better
to just keep working (on something ) and eventually i'll come
across the lost items allowing me to continue with the origional task.

the remote needs a long red ribbon taped to it so it can't hide.

the keys go into a special always findem drawer.

and by the way... i liked how that can of pepsi transformed into a coke.
that's a pretty neat trick

[justplugit]

Yup, been sufferin for years.

[boot man]

Too flippin' funny. I don't thinnk I'm that old (42) but I do crap like that all the time. Took me 5 trips out of my office and into the kitchen before I finally came back with scotch tape, but man the snacks and lemonade were awesome.

[Swimmer]

Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.

[OLD GOAT]

Mr Sandman I was going to make a statement but forgot what i was going to say.

[MAC]

.......what was I laughing at again?

[Swimmer]

This morning after coffee I brought laundry down cellar and dropped into basket. I opened up the washer then bent over and opened dryer. Realizing the towels were in there from yesterday I took them out and brought them upstairs and set on sink in bathroom. Seeing toilet I found it necessary to pee. Left towels in bathroom on top of sink because dog wanted to go out. Grabbed coffee from dunkin Donuts and took a walk around the pumpkin patch with dog. I realized then after making the patch circumference that I had left the other "stuff" undone. Brought the dog back in the house and finish what I started. An hour later.

Three times this summer I left two hundred foot hose on and the water pressure cause a double clamped end to come undone. I can't imagine how much water I wasted. Every time I am through watering the pumpkins or garden and walking back up the hill towards the house I am telling myself to shut the water off. At least three times I have forgot to do that in the span of a two hundred foot walk.

[zacs]

have you guys ever put the remote in the fridge after grabbing a snack/drink?
That is one I will never live down. We searched for hours!!!

[outnumbered]

If it wasn't for my younger days I might remember what it is I am supposed to do today.

[likwid]

Oh look a butterfly....

[Mr. Sandman]

Originally Posted by zacs

have you guys ever put the remote in the fridge after grabbing a snack/drink?
That is one I will never live down. We searched for hours!!!

No but I pissed in the kitchen trashcan once after fishing all night

[RIJIMMY]

I still can't figure out how the Pepsi tuned into a Coke?

[striperman36]

I thought it was a Cabinet.

[The Dad Fisherman]

I constantly open up Internet Explorer to look for something.....and then forget why.

[crash]

Originally Posted by zacs

have you guys ever put the remote in the fridge after grabbing a snack/drink?
That is one I will never live down. We searched for hours!!!

Try in the freezer....inside the box of drumsticks

[Rick Ackley]

It seems the only time I constantly do remember what I am doing, why I am doing it, and nothing else is standing on a rock, with the surf around my feet. But, once back at the truck, all heck starts all over again. Great report. Thanks for the honesty.

[The Iceman 6]

Oh look a butterfly....

GREAT reference Likwid...hahahhaahah

[HighTide]

I've put the full coffee pot in the kitchen cabinet. Then wondered what happened to it when I went for another cup.