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[Digger]

Subject: Fw: A.A.A.D.D.

I'm aware the following message really pertains to older folks, certainly no
one reading this, but ----

>Recently <>, I was diagnosed with A. A. A. D. D. - Age
Activated
Attention Deficit Disorder.

This is how it manifests: I decide to wash my car.

As I start toward the garage, I notice that there is mail on the hall table.

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 trash can under
the table, and notice that the trash can is full.

So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the trash first.

But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I
take out the trash anyway, I may as well pay the bills first.

I take my checkbook 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 to my desk
where I find the can of Pepsi that I had 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.

I see that the Pepsi is getting warm, and I decide I should put it in the
refrigerator to keep it cold. As I head toward the spam with the Pepsi ,
a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye--they need to be watered.

I set the Pepsi 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 spam 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 spam table, so I decide to put
it back in the den where it belongs, but first I'll water the flowers.

I splash some water on the flowers, but most 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 Pepsi sitting on the counter, the flowers aren't watered,
there is still only one check in my checkbook, 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.

Do me a favor, will you? Forward this message to everyone you know, because I
don't remember to whom it has been sent.

Don't laugh -- if this isn't you yet, your day is coming!

GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL LAUGHING AT YOURSELF IS
THERAPEUTIC

[GaryL]

[GREY OWL]

Hey Digger!! I started reading your post, and when I got to the bottom of it, I forgot what the top said. Does that mean I got what you got?

Confused!!!!!!


Grey Owl

[Woody Williams]

Been there, done that........but I don't remember when...

[GaryL]

Meee to Grey Owl that's why I posted could'nt rember what I read, and my coffee cup was empty, and while I was geting a new cup I had too do the dishes, then I rembered I shucks forgot what I was going too say