A.A.A.D.D.-Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder

[tinabee]

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 walk towards the garage, I notice that there is 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 down on the table, put the junk mail in the rubbish bin, and notice that the bin is full. So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the Rubbish first.

But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out the rubbish anyway, I may as well pay the bills first.  I take my cheque book from the table, and see that there is only one cheque left. My extra cheques are in my desk in the study, so I go inside the house to my desk where I find the can of Cola that I had been drinking.

I'm going to look for my cheques, but first I need to push the Cola aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over. I see that the Cola 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 Cola, a vase of flowers on the work-top catches my eye....they need to be watered.  I put the Cola down on the work-top, and I discover my reading Glasses that I've been searching for all morning. I decide I'd better put them back on my desk, but first I'm going to water the flowers.

I put the glasses back down on the work-top, fill the watering-can and suddenly I spot the TV remote control. Someone left it on the Kitchen table. I realise that tonight when we want 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 living room where it belongs, but first I'll water the flowers. I pour some water in the vase, but quite a bit of it spills on the floor, so I put the remote control back down on the table, get some towels and wipe up the water.

Then, I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do.

At the end of the day: the car hasn't been washed, the bills haven't been paid,
there is a warm can of Cola sitting on the work-top, the flowers don't have enough water, there is still only one cheque in my cheque book,

I can't find the remote control, I can't find my glasses, and I can't remember what I did with the car keys.
Then, when I try to figure out why I didn't get anything 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.

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

GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL. LAUGHING AT YOURSELF IS THERAPEUTIC

 

[Pierre ZFP]

Heard Terry Pratchett on the radio last week describing the 'Over 60's Treasure Hunt'

It goes like this:

1) put car keys in left hand

2) close eyes and count to 10

3) open eyes and look for car keys

Not a bad gag for someone who has just been diagnosed with Alzheimer's

[Patf]

My poor old Mum used to be like that Tinabee. She was always starting one job, getting sidetracked, going onto something else, so nothing got finished, and I would go round finishing her jobs. When she was in her 40s too. I try to make a point of doing the job NOW - don't put it off. But I'm getting more and more like her. She was lovely though, I miss her.

[Kitty]

Terry Wogan calls these incidents "senior moments".