A.A.A.D.D.

My husband recently sent me this email and said it fit me to a tee:

A. A. A. D. D. - Classic Retirement Syndrome 
- Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.

This is how it manifests itself:

I decide to water my small RV garden.

As I turn on the hose , I look over at my car and decide my car needs washing.

As I start toward the storage shed, I notice that there is mail on the porch table that the manager brought by from the mail box 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 trash bin under the table, and notice that the bin is full.

So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take the trash to the park dumpster 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 check book 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 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 place the coke down on the work surface, and I discover one of my 10 pairs of 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 work top, fill a container with water and suddenly I spot the TV remote. Someone has 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 chair 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 toward the other end of the RV 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 work surface.
• The flowers don't have enough water.
• There is still only one check in my checkbook.
• I can't find the TV remote.
• I can't find my glasses and I don't remember what I did with the car keys.

Let me clarify, this is not our office...yet

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'll try to get some help for it, but first I'll check my e-mail.

PS. I just remembered, I left the water running......................................