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     Chasespeed |
I've been diagnosed with 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 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 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 mailbox when I take out the garbage anyway, I may as well pay the bills first. I take my 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. 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 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 isn't washed, ----the bills aren't paid, ----there is a warm can of Coke 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 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. yeah, this is what I was looking for the other daY... Chase | ||
| Boisebuelly |
You just completely described my life. | ||
| U4euh |
AAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!! I got it too!! heeelllppp me pleeez) | ||
| Court |
Some of us have elevated it to an art form. . . it's one thing to have it. . . practice will allow you to leverage it to your advantage, get good at it and do some really stupid stuff. Any questions? . . . . I'm your man! | ||
| Brotherbuell |
Hmmmm...seems that I remember someone picking up the groceries after work and putting them in the back of the pickup truck. Then seeing a carwash on the way home and realizing that the truck really needs a washing.....Need I say more? | ||
| Court |
Gads. . . that WAS embarrassing. Poor Slavic guy at the car wash trying to scream "stop" in whatever his native tongue was. But. . . as you know, I am known for seeing the bright side of things. I'm just damn glad I didn't have a bag full of Kool-Aid! I did something, last night, that I thought was funny . . . but my SCU is still miffed at today. . . insisting I am the most disgustingly embarrassing person she has ever known...to which I suggested she get out more.....went over...well never mind. There is a kid's karate school in a nearby strip mall..next to a Starbucks. I got in trouble several months ago when some kids got scared when, while passing by in the middle of a class, I stopped, assumed a Chuck Norris like stance and did some pretty fancy "air chopping". To me?. . . it was funny as hell. Apparently 2 of the 8 year old reacted, to my surprise, with terror and I had to answer for scaring them. Yesterday was different.....it was a gal, I'd estimate to be about 15, cleaning the "watch yourself" mirrors. I mean. . . she had a terry cloth towel in both hands and would alternate the right hand with picking up a bottle of Windex, firing a half-dozen squirts, putting down the bottle and cleaning. I mean this was perfect "wax on, wax off" as I took up a feigned Miagi stance outside the plate glass window with the spousal unit sipping a Latte' in the car screamin. . . . I've become dull in my advancing years. . . see you in Daytona.  | ||
| Charlieboy6649 |
OMG that E-mail just described my every off day. Too funny! LOL! |
