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Ok, this ain't exactly my situation but it's similar to why I don't
get as much done as I feel I should. (Reposted from another group)


Thank goodness there's a name for this disorder.
Somehow I feel better even though I have it!!

Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D.
Age Associated 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 & 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.
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 had 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.
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,
I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all 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.....

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

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Country wrote the following:
Ok, this ain't exactly my situation but it's similar to why I don't
get as much done as I feel I should. (Reposted from another group)


Thank goodness there's a name for this disorder.
Somehow I feel better even though I have it!!

Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D.
Age Associated 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 & 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.
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 had 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.
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,
I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all 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.....

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


That is exactly how my days go, except I drink Coke.

--

Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
In the original Orange County. Est. 1683
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On Mon, 06 Dec 2010 07:53:29 -0500, willshak
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Don't laugh -- if this isn't you yet, your day is coming!!


That is exactly how my days go, except I drink Coke.


*“Sixty is the worst age to be,” said the 60-year-old. You always feel
like you have to pee. And most of the time, you stand at the toilet
and nothing comes out!”

“Ah, that’s nothin’,” said the 70-year-old. “When you’re seventy, you
can’t even crap anymore. You take laxatives, eat bran, you sit on the
toilet all day and nothin’ comes out!”

“Actually,” said the 80-year-old, “Eighty is the worst age of all.”

“Do you have trouble peeing too?” asked the 60-year- old.

“No, not really. I pee every morning at 6:00. I pee like a racehorse
on a flat rock; no problem at all.”

“Do you have trouble crapping?” “No, I crap every morning at 6:30.”

With great exasperation, the 60-year-old said, “Let me get this
straight. You pee every morning at 6:00 and crap every morning at
6:30. So what’s so tough about being 80?”

“I don’t wake up until 7:00.”

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On Mon, 06 Dec 2010 07:53:29 -0500, willshak
wrote:

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


That is exactly how my days go, except I drink Coke.


*“Sixty is the worst age to be,” said the 60-year-old. You always feel
like you have to pee. And most of the time, you stand at the toilet
and nothing comes out!”

“Ah, that’s nothin’,” said the 70-year-old. “When you’re seventy, you
can’t even crap anymore. You take laxatives, eat bran, you sit on the
toilet all day and nothin’ comes out!”

“Actually,” said the 80-year-old, “Eighty is the worst age of all.”

“Do you have trouble peeing too?” asked the 60-year- old.

“No, not really. I pee every morning at 6:00. I pee like a racehorse
on a flat rock; no problem at all.”

“Do you have trouble crapping?” “No, I crap every morning at 6:30.”

With great exasperation, the 60-year-old said, “Let me get this
straight. You pee every morning at 6:00 and crap every morning at
6:30. So what’s so tough about being 80?”

“I don’t wake up until 7:00.”



....and grateful at that!
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