This is how Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder manifests itself:
>
> 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 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 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 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, an d 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 l 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 one check in my check book
>
> I can't find the remote
>
> I can't find my glasses
>
> 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.
>
> Or who sent it to me.
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle
