Don't Laugh your day is coming

[richard2717]

Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. –
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 it needs washing.

As I start toward the garage,
I notice 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 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 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
can of Pepsi I’d been drinking.

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

The Pepsi is getting warm,
and I decide to put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold.

As I head toward the kitchen with the Pepsi,
a vase of flowers on the counter
catches my eye–they need water.

I put the Pepsi 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.
Someone left it on the kitchen table.

I realize 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 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 warm can of
Pepsi 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 the damn day,
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….

Do me a favor.
Forward this message to everyone you know,
because I don’t remember who the hell I’ve sent it to.

Don’t laugh — if this isn’t you yet, your day is coming!!

[mongocanfly]

So that's what I've got to look forward to....hahaha

[midniteblues]

What a perfect example of how most of my days go.
Throw kids into the mix and it multiplies drasticly.

[paul blair]

Richard 2717, I think I have the same syndrome! Some times I get things done but usually take my Hot Rod for a ride and start to feel normal again. Not sure if this is a cure but it seems to help. Think I'll go for another ride! I know it's not G.M. but my K/10 doesn't seem to mind-needed some thing to beat on, at least it is U.S.A. made.

[Stocker]

That goes a long way to explain why, since I retired, I stay relatively busy but get so little done. Thanks for posting!!

[GR8-68]

By the time I finished reading your story I had to start over because I forgot what it was about

Good one

['63GENIII]

Oh man, you mean it keeps getting worse?

I sat down to look up gable vents on Amazon a few minutes ago and somehow ended up here.

[special-K]

I used to get a whole lot done back before I started noticing the things I am compelled to take care of now. I notice a thing out of place. If I stop what I'm doing and place it back where it goes I'm being obsessive compulsive. If I leave it lay I am being a lazy procrastinator. Neither bothers me much, since I forget about it in a matter of seconds.