Can You Relate To This?

[metaldad]

Can you relate to this?

Recently, I was diagnosed with - 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 mail box 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 check book off the table, and see that there is only 1 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 I'd 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.

The Coke is getting warm, and I decide to 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 water.

I put the Coke 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 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 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 Coke sitting on the counter
- the flowers don't have enough water
- there is still only 1 check in my check 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, 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.

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

 

[BeepBeepRR]

LMAO this describes me. I think I have been like this since I was a kid though. but back then there was no such **** as ADD,ADHD or any other acronym for being a pain in my mothers ***. Back then you were just a WILD CHILD.. Or All BOY. Wish they would have had some kind of medication back then.

 

[493 Mike]

You're just multitasking to the extreme. If you forgo sleep you will finish all your tasks! Carry on.
Mike

 

[Jerry Hall]

LMAO this describes me. I think I have been like this since I was a kid though. but back then there was no such **** as ADD,ADHD or any other acronym for being a pain in my mothers ***. Back then you were just a WILD CHILD.. Or All BOY. Wish they would have had some kind of medication back then.

My Father's cure for this when I was young was an *** whipping. He's not around to fix it now, so I just have to live with it.

 

[Brandy]

Too late!...hmmm...what am I late for...sigh, don't remember. Must not have been important.

 

[BeepBeepRR]

My Father's cure for this when I was young was an *** whipping. He's not around to fix it now, so I just have to live with it.

Wish my dad would have been around. That might have helped. But in school I was easily distracted and would lose focus real fast. My mom would get calls from school saying I'm not trying or not listening. The school calls are what I was referring to as being a pain in my moms ***.Not that I was out being a delinquent.
Working on one thing but thinking about something else. Later in life standing there talking to my boss, he would be telling me instructions for something but my mind would be thinking something else and basically just tune him out. So it was never fun when I had to try and remember what he said. I don't get as distracted as the guy in the first post. And I was not making light of the situation simply relating to his struggles. He did a fantastic job of describing what its like.

 

[pushrod]

I can relate but I always remember to take a nap somewhere in between all those things.

 

[FJ6AAR]

 

[hanks73340]

Thats why my wife keeps the remote.....

 

[67440chrg]

I am not that bad yet but I will start 3 or 4 things before I realize I am not getting anything done. It wont be long and I will be there.

 

[Wingfoot]

An old physician, Doctor John Geezer, became very bored in retirement and decided to re-open a medical clinic.
He put a sign outside the clinic that read:
"Dr. Geezer's clinic. Get your treatment for $500 - if not cured, get back $1,000."

Doctor Digger Young, who was positive that this old geezer didn't know **** about medicine, thought this would be a great opportunity to get $1,000. So he went to Dr. Geezer's clinic.

Dr. Young: "Dr. Geezer, I have lost all taste in my mouth. Can you please help me?"
Dr. Geezer: "Nurse, please bring medicine from box 22 and put 3 drops in Dr. Young's mouth."
Dr. Young: 'Aaagh! -- This is Gasoline!"
Dr. Geezer: "Congratulations! You've got your taste back. That will be $500."

Dr. Young got annoyed and went back after a couple of days to recover his money.
Dr. Young: "I have lost my memory, I cannot remember anything."
Dr. Geezer: "Nurse, please bring medicine from box 22 and put 3 drops in the patient's mouth."
Dr. Young: "Oh, no you don't -- that is Gasoline!"
Dr. Geezer: "Congratulations! You've got your memory back. That will be $500."

Dr. Young (having lost $1000) leaves angrily and comes went back several days later.
Dr. Young: "My eyesight has become weak --- I can hardly see anything!"
Dr. Geezer: "Well, I don't have any medicine for that so, here is your $1000 back," handing Dr. Young a $10 bill.
Dr. Young: "But this is only $10!"
Dr. Geezer: "Congratulations! Your vision is back! That will be $500."

Moral of story -- Just because you're "Young" doesn't mean that you can outsmart an "old Geezer."
Remember: Don't make old people mad. We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to annoy us.

ENJOY YOUR DAY!!!

P.S. Written in large print for old Geezers.