SYMPTOMS OF OLD AGE – LAUGH AT YOURSELF:)), IT IS THERAPEUTIC

A.A.A.D.D. – 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, Ilook over at my car and decide my car needs washing.As I start toward the garage, I notice that there is mail on the porchtable that I brought up from the mailbox earlier. I decide to gothrough the mail before I wash the car. I lay my car keys down on thetable, 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 garbagefirst. 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 1 check left.
My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go inside the house tomy 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 asideso that I don’t accidentally knock it over. I see that the Coke isgetting warm and I decide I should put it in the refrigerator to keep itcold. As I head toward the kitchen with the Coke, a vase of flowers onthe counter catches my eye– they need to be watered. I set the Cokedown on the counter and I discover my reading glasses that I’ve beensearching 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 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’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 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 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 reallybaffled because I know I was busy all day long and I’m really tired. Irealize this is a serious problem and I’ll try toget some help for it but first I’ll check my email.Do me a favor, will you? Forward this message to everyone you know,because I don’t remember to whom it has been sent.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.