[Irish]

So my sister forwarded this one to me and it was a bit close to home ...

Susan

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I'm sure some of you can relate, and those that can't, well, this might explain why we are the way we are.

Recently I was diagnosed with A. A. A. D. D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.

This is how it manifests:

I decide to wash my car.

As I start toward the garage, I notice that there is mail on the hall table. 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 trash can under the table, and notice that the trash can is full. So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the trash first.

But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out the trash 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 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 splash some water on the flowers, but most 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 aren't watered, there is still only one check in my checkbook, 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!

[Ashbys]

Susan,

This kinda sounds like I have been there , but somewhere along the way it is missing something ........



Oh YEA !

the bathroom which I would have started to go to before I started past the hall table, and then forgot ....


And then When I went to get water .. I would have remembered .... and forgot because I would have had to walk across the room for the paper towels ......

and then taking out the trash I would have locked myself out ....

and remebered the BATHROOM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ash

[Colin_Partridge]

Susan,
Wow I didnt know you knew me so well. As I sit here and read this (I had to read it three times) My ADD, I realize you have described me to a tee. This is my life day after day. I like you am exhaused after my day and for the life of me cant understand why because half the time I havent done anything. Then when I get a chance to sit down or even go to bed, I lie there for hours thinking of things I have to do tomorrow. Then realize they were the things I was supposed to do today. Tomorrow will be exactly the same as today, problem is I dont know how to change it.
Colin

[Hugh]

Its just as frustrating to sort things out, and try and do them one by one. Stay loose and don't try and change, just messes things up . Grin.

[whitecree]

HAHAHAHOHEHEHEHAHAHAHA!â„¢


Sounds like me on a GOOD day.

[squbrigg]

You've been reading my diary folks!!! That's life now, to a "T".
Ah heck....we're still on the right side of the sod!

Bob

[Ron D]

Don't laugh -- , your day is coming!


that sounds like my mother when we were kids.when we used to get in trouble she used to yell our name but she used to say everyone else name first before she got to yours.......... mike,angela,ken and then finally ron get your butt over here except she never said butt.she still does it except she's got a whole bunch of grandkids to go thru as well now.thats the exact words she'd say when we'd break out laughin

[Kenny_S]

My Mother did the same thing Ron. What was bad, there was only two of us boys around.

[Ron D]

lol at least you didnt have to wait 10 min like i did to see if you were in trouble while she went threw everyones name.at the end of it as soon as we heard her callin we'd all just show up to save her time
lol

[Ashbys]

It's much worst in WV,

we have a state population to go through

LOL