[Ice]

Blimey, he works late.

[Snap Dragon]

The downside of running a pub & restaurant I'm afraid....

on the upside - I get to spend all night on the PC in peace and quiet!! 

[Trillium]

AAADD- KNOW THE SYMPTOMS.....

Thank goodness there's a name for this disorder.

Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.

This is how it 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 it needs washing..

As I head towards the garage, I notice mail on the porch table that I picked up from the post man 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 recycling box under the table, and notice that the recycling box is full.

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

But then I think, since I'm going to be near the postbox when I take out the recycling paper anyway, I may as well pay the bills first.

I take my cheque book off the table, And notice that there is only one cheque left.

My extra cheques are in my desk in the study, so I go inside the house to my desk where I find the cup of coffee I'd been drinking.

I'm going to look for my cheques, but first I need to push the coffee aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over.

The coffee is getting cold, and I decide to make another cup.

As I head toward the kitchen with the cold coffee, a vase of flowers on the worktop catches my eye - the flowers need water.

I put the coffee on the worktop 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 put the glasses back down on the worktop, fill a container with water and suddenly spot the TV remote control. Someone left it on the kitchen table.

I realise 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 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 put 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 cold cup of coffee sitting on the counter

The flowers don't have enough water,

There is still only 1 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.

Then, when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all damn day, and I'm really tired.

I realise 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!!

[aelf]

Trillium, that's brilliant 

(worrying thing is tho, you could be describing me  )

[JayG]

Yup! Been there, done all that, got the teashirt (put it somewhere "safe" but can I hell as like find it now!) 

[agingchick]

Thank god I'm not the only one
Now what was I doing?
Diane

[John]

Has anyone seen £10 in Thompson & Morgan vouchers? I put them somewhere safe...

[joyfull]

so pleased it isn't just me like that 

[mumofstig]

The worst thing for me is losing my glasses. I don't need them for any close work, so I take them off and the wander off for a coffee or to do something else and then....without my glasses I can't see well enough to find them again, unless I can remember what I was doing in the first place 

[Paul Plots]

The worst thing for me is losing my glasses. I don't need them for any close work, so I take them off and the wander off for a coffee or to do something else and then....without my glasses I can't see well enough to find them again, unless I can remember what I was doing in the first place 

I'm lucky as I get my specs from the local supermarket - very cheap price - so when one pair wander off of their own accord I simply reach out for another that have decided to appear again. I have them all over the place including amongst the veg on the plot. 

[mumofstig]

  good for you Learner...........my eyes are not a matching pair :blink:, so cheap is not a good option for me...I shop where you buy 1 get 1 free but still lose them too often

[davethespread]

good for you Learner...........my eyes are not a matching pair :blink:, so cheap is not a good option for me...I shop where you buy 1 get 1 free but still lose them too often

haa haa mum not a matching pair have you got one at home and one away?

[mumofstig]

It's the way you tell'em Dave 
I have one eye with weaker sight than the other, silly!
Off the rack glasses have the same prescription in each lens..which is why I can't buy them ...........they are soo much cheaper though

[madcat]

I suppose that is one advantage to being a Harry Potter.  I wake up, put glasses on nose, open eyes.  As I go to sleep, I take glasses off nose, head hits pillow .....  If they arent on my face I am a) blind as a bat and b) asleep or in the shower.  Only time I lose them is when someone moves them while I'm in the shower ....    ...  and that doesn't happen more than once!

[DavidT]

I`m with Learner, though I don`t lose or misplace glasses, I tend to flatten them.  As for the AAADD, I notice those affected are coffee drinkers, I don`t drink the stuff myself.