Below is a story going around the email humor circuit. Three of my friends have sent it to me. They must be trying to tell me something.
I do not know the original author.
If anyone reads this and knows, I will gladly give credit where credit is due.
I am posting this as a back up to my entry about losing Tuesday.

Recently, I was diagnosed with A. A. A. D. D.
that is: Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.

This is how it manifests:

I decide 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 I wash the car.

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

So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the
trash first.

But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take
out the trash 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, so I go 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 going to
water the flowers.

I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with
waterand 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 splash some water on the flowers, but most 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 aren't watered,
there is still only one check in my checkbook,
I can't find the remote, I can't find my glasses, and I don't remember
what I did with the car keys.
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'll try to get some help
for it, but first I'll just check my e-mail.

Do me a favor, will you? Forward this message to everyone you know,
because I have no idea to whom it has already been sent.

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

GROWING OLD IS MANDATORY
GROWINGUP IS OPTIONAL.