April 12/07 10:14 p.m. (sorry ,folks, not my brainstorm, but good nevertheless!)Subject: AAADD
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 decidemy car needs washing.As I start toward the garage, I notice that there is
mail on the patio
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 mail box
when I take outthe garbage anyway, I may as well pay
he bills first.I take my check book off the
table, and see that there is only one checkleft.My extra checks are in my
desk in the study, so I go inside the
house tomy 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 asideso that I don't accidentally knock it over.I realize the
Coke is getting warm
, and I decide I should put it in therefrigerator to keep it cold.As I head toward the
kitchen with the
coke, a vase
of flowers on thecounter catches my eye--they need to be
watered.I set the
Coke down on the counter, and I discover my
reading glassesthat 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 waterand suddenly I spot the TV
Remote Control
. Someone left it on the
kitchen table.I realize that tonight when I go to watch TV
, I will be looking for the
remote control
, but I won't remember that it's on
the kitchen table, so I decideto put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I'll water theflowers.I pour
some water in the flowers, but quite a bit of it spills on thefloor.So, I set the
Remote Control
back down on the
table, get some
towels and wipeup the spill.Then I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do.At the end of the day:the driveway is floodedthe
car isn't washed,the bills aren't paid,there is a warm can
of Coke sitting on the counter,there is still only one check in my check book, I can't find the
remote control
,
I can't find
my glasses, and I don't remember what I did with the
carkeys.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'mreally
tired.I realize this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get somehelp for it, but first I'll check my
e-mail. Do me a favor, will you? Forward this
message because I can't remember to whom it was sent.
