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

This is how it manifests:

I decided 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 find my cheque book on the table and see that there is
only one
cheque left. My extra cheques are in my desk in the den, so I go to
my
desk
where I find the bottle of soda that I had been drinking. I'm going
to
look for
my checks, but first I need to push the soda aside so that I don't
accidentally
knock it over. I see that the soda 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 soda, a vase of flowers on the
counter
catches my eye - they need to be watered. I set the soda 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
realise
that tonight when we go to watch TV, we will be looking for the
remote,
but
nobody will 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
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 bottle of soda sitting on the counter, the flowers aren't
watered,
there is
still only one cheque in my cheque 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
realise
this is a
serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for it, but first I'll
check my
e-mail.

You might want to forward this message to people you know, because
already I
don't remember to whom I have sent it.