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From an email.

A.A.A.D.D.- KNOW THE SYMPTOMS!
Thank goodness there's a name for this disorder.

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 it needs washing.

As I start toward the garage,
I notice 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 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 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,
And 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 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 decided 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 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 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,
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,
forward this message to everyone you know,
Because I don't remember who I've sent it to.

Don't laugh -- if this isn't you yet, your day is coming!
P.S. I don't remember who sent it to me, so if it was you, I'm sorry.

Have you been following me around. Sounds like my day.

Forgot to close the garage.

I been there for years now!!

Every breath is a Blessing/beats the alternative/ don't buy green bananas/ from milk to Coke/ beer/ Scotch/milk again.

Cram the Bible for the last "test".

Nah, 54 tomorrow & only feel like 60 !

I knowed this would resonate!

I literally laughed out loud. That sums up many days for me.

I had a really good reply for you, but I can’t remember what I was going to say now....

Or, was it a different thread?

Oh well.

???

The Marines used to say, I've worn out more seabags than you have socks.

I have never been good at multi tasking anyway so that's just a normal day for me.

Ha! Ha! Ha!
Just a minute...

Paul, I'll have to miss the day, don't party too hard.

ib, that's friggin hilarious.

Yeah, I am (turned 50 a few months ago), but my primary confirmation of that is my reaction to popular culture.

I’m not on Instagram or Facebook. I can’t imagine sharing that much. I really haven’t appreciated new music or most television for the last 10+ years. And I relate a lot to Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino.

BUT I think my wife is hot as “f”, even more so than she was 20 years ago when I met her, and she makes me feel young. Plus, I have 3 kids 10-14, and they wont let me be old!

Right on. 51 feeling like 32 (x2) here.


LOL good laugh ironbender.

I don’t know you, but like you!!

Hey, thanks, I appreciate that.

Good one!

They say forgetfulness and being easily disttracted arent signs
of old timers. Sure hope so.


Been that way since childhood. (Probably have ADD. Never got
taken for diagnosis. Folks just beat my ass.)



50 now. And it ain't getting better!

I don't have enough time left to read all that.