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Does this sound familiar ?

Recently, I thought I had A.A.A.D.D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.
This is what happened.
I need 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 washing the car.

I put my car keys down on the table, put the junk mail in the bin under the
table, and notice that the bin is full.

So, I decide to put the bills back on the table to take out the bin first. But
then I say to myself, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out
the bin anyway, I might as well pay the bills first. I take my cheque book off
the table, and see that there is only one cheque left. My extra cheques are in
my desk in the study, so I go to my desk where I find a bottle of coke that I
had been drinking.

I'm about to look for my cheques, but first I need to push the coke aside so
that I wouldn't accidentally knock it over. I notice that the coke is getting
warm, so I decide that I should put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold. I
head towards the kitchen with the coke. A vase of flowers on the counter
catches my eye - they needed to be watered. As I put the coke down on the
counter, I notice my reading glasses, which I've been searching for all
morning.

I decide I had better take them back to my desk, but first I must water the
flowers. I put the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with
water when suddenly I spot the TV remote. Someone had left it on the kitchen
table. I realize 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 take it back to the TV room where it belongs, but first I must water
the flowers. I splash some water on the flowers, but most of it spills on the
floor.

So, I put the remote back on the table, to get some towels to wipe up the spill.
Then I head down the hall trying to remember why I'm going that way and what I
was planning to do.

Now, it's the end of the day, the car isn't washed, the bills aren't paid,
there is a warm bottle of coke 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.

I try to work out why nothing got done today. I'm really baffled because I know
I was busy all day long and now 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 favour, will you? Forward this message to everyone you know, because I
don't remember to whom it was sent.

I hope you're having a nice day.

Courtesy of Micronica http://micronica.com.au