Adult ADD

This is how Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder manifests itself :
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 theporch 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 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,
soI 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,
and I 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 goingto water the flowers.

I set the glasses back down on the counter,
fill a container with water
and suddenly I spot the TV remote.

Someone left it on the kitchen table.

I realize that tonight when we go 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 den where it belongs,
but first I'llwater 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 down 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 thecounter

the flowers don't have enough water

there is still only one check in my check book

I can't find the remote

I can't find my glasses

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'lltry to get some help for it,

but first I'll check my e-mail.