irony – and a lot of signpost fail
Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D.
Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.
This is how it manifests itself:
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 head towards the garage, I notice post on the porch table that I picked up from the postman earlier.
I decide to go through it before I wash the car.
I put my car keys on the table, put the junk mail in the recycling box under the table, and notice that the recycling box is full.
So, I decide to put the  bills back on the table and take out the recycling first.
But then I think, since I’m going to be near the  post-box when I take out the recycling paper  anyway, I may as well pay the bills first.
I take my cheque book  off the table and notice that there is only one  cheque left.
My extra cheques are in the desk in my  study, so I go into the house  to my desk where
I find the cup of coffee  I’d been drinking.
I’m going to look for my  cheques but first I need to push the coffee aside so that I don’t accidentally knock it  over.
The coffee is getting cold, and I decide to make another cup..
As I head toward the  kitchen with the cold coffee, a vase of flowers on the worktop  catches my eye – the flowers need water.
I put the coffee on the  worktop 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 put the glasses back down on the worktop, fill a container with water and  suddenly spot the TV remote control. Someone left it on the kitchen  table.
I realise 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 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 put 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 cold cup of  coffee sitting on the kitchen work-surface
The flowers don’t have  enough water,
There is still only 1  cheque in my cheque 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.
I realise 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 favour.
Don’t laugh – if this isn’t you yet, your day is coming!!


































