KNOW THE SYMPTOMS!
Thank GOD there’s a name for this disorder.
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 Diet Coke I’d
been drinking.
I’m going to look for my checks,
But first I need to push the Diet
Coke aside So that I don’t accidentally knock
it over.
The Diet 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 Diet Coke, a vase of flowers on the counter
catches my eye–they need water.
I put the Diet 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
flow
