Age-Activated Attention Deficit Disorder

Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:33 pm Age-Activated Attention Deficit Disorder

This is how it develops:

I decide to water my garden

As I turn on the hose in the driveway I look over at my car and decide my car needs washing.

As I start toward the garage I notice that there is mail on the porch table that I brought up from the mailbox 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 Im going to be near the mailbox, when I take out the garbage anyway I may as well pay the bills first.

I take the check book off the table, and see that there is only 1 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 Coke that I had been drinking.

Im going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the Coke aside so that I dont 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 Ive been searching for all morning.

I decide I better put them back on my desk but first Im 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 wont remember that its on the kitchen table so I decide to put it back in the den where it belongs but first Ill 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 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 isnt washed

--- the bills arent paid

--- there is a warm can of Coke sitting on the counter

--- the flowers dont have enough water

--- there is still only 1 check in my check book

--- I cant find the remote

--- I cant find my glasses

--- and I dont remember what I did with the car keys.

Then when I try to figure out why nothing got done today Im really baffled because I know I was busy all day long, and Im really tired . . .