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

This is how it manifests itself:

Decide to water the garden.

Turn on the hose, look over at the car and decide it needs washing.

Start toward the garage, notice mail on the porch table that I brought up from the mail box earlier.

Decide to go through the mail before I wash the car.

Lay my car keys on the table, put the junk mail in the recycling bin.
Which is full.

So I decide to put the bills back on the table and empty the recycling bin.

But then I think: since I’m going to be near the mailbox when I empty the recycling bin anyway, I may as well pay the bills first.

Take my check book off the table – 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 cup of tea I’d been drinking.

I’m going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the tea aside so that I don’t accidentally knock it over.

Tea’s getting cold so I decide to make another cup.

As I head toward the kitchen with the cold tea, I notice that a vase of flowers on the counter needs water.

Put the tea 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 on the kitchen table.

I realize that at some stage 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 flowers, but quite a bit of it spills on the floor.

So I set 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 tea 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 bloody day,

And I’m really tired.