AAADD

We are all getting older, and as we age, we begin to suffer the slings and arrows of aging, which may or not be of outrageous fortune. There is unsteadiness of gait, fading eyesight and hearing, and whatever else. And no doubt, new diseases will be diagnosed. A new one has just come up, called Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder, or in short A. A. A. D. D.

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 un! der 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.

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, will you? Forward this message to everyone you know, because I don't remember to whom it has been sent.

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

GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL. LAUGHING AT YOURSELF IS THERAPEUTIC.

P.S. I just remembered, I LEFT THE WATER RUNNING IN THE DRIVEWAY!!!!!!!!!

Okay, who's been watching me?

This is hysterical.

I did not know this was something that came with aging!! This is me all over. I spend every day like this and at the end of the day I say " I got
nothing done!!". Add to this, little ones who constantly interrupt my scattered activity and you get one dizzy broad!!
I guess I'm in good company, though...

I think I've been this way most of my life! Now that I know it's only because I keep getting older, I'm happy. I have an excuse!

Now you know the truth about what multi-tasking really is, bet you thought it was a good thing......too funny Songbird.

Everyday...all day. Can't get any worse, can it?
Can't tell you how many times I've walked around looking for my glasses to find them on top of my head.

The worst for me is when I go to do something and find that I had just done it a few minutes before and forgot that I had remembered...what??

Hey girls: Now we know why we "do so much" and nothing ever seems to be done" . At least I know I'm not alone!

OMG...this is all too true..
Brenda...i do the eyeglass on the top of my head thing all the time...also...looking in my purse frantically for car keys only to realize they are in the other hand ...the one holding all the shopping bags!!! I'm happy to know that I'm not alone in this muddled mess..

Anybody else have special eyeglasses for the computer? I can't count the times I've forgotten to change to my other glasses, got up and almost feel on my face.