| Creighton | 
								|  | «  on: August 22, 2006, 06:50:43 pm » |  | 
 
 Liked this. If you aren't there yet, will be before you know it :-)Creighton
 
 
 
 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 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, so 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, and 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, fill a container with water, but
 quite a bit of it spills on the floor. So, I 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 Coke sitting on the counter, the flowers don't have
 enough water, there is still only one check in my check book, 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... and soda-machines.com.
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