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Sticks and stones
By Chris Johnstone
To get your minds away from depressing matters such as the mind-boggling
corruption in this country and the imminent war against Iraq, something
different this week.
A friend of mine sent me an e-mail this week, saying that he had been
diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D., or Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.
These are the symptoms, as described by him in the first person:
"I decide to wash the car, I head towards the garage but spot the mail on
the table. Ok, I'm going to wash the car. But I better go through the mail
first. I put the car keys down on the desk, discard the junk mail and I
notice the rubbish tin is full. Ok, I'll just put the accounts on the desk,
and take the rubbish out, but since I'm going to be close to the letterbox
anyway, I'll pay these accounts first. Now where is my cheque book? Drat,
there is only one cheque left! My extra cheques are in my desk. Oh, there is
the Coke I was drinking. I'm going to look for those cheques. But first I
need to put my Coke further away from the computer, or maybe I'll pop it
into the fridge to keep it cold for a while. I head off to the kitchen and
my flowers catch my eye, they need some water. I put the Coke on the counter
and there are my glasses. I was looking for them all morning! I'd better put
them away first. I fill the container with water and head for the flower
pots. Someone left the TV remote in the kitchen. We will never think to look
in the kitchen tonight when we want to watch television so I better put it
back in the family room where it belongs. I splash some water into the pots
and onto the floor, I throw the remote back onto a soft cushion on the sofa
and I head back down the hall, trying to figure out what I was going to do.
END OF THE DAY: The car isn't washed, the accounts are unpaid, the Coke is
sitting on the kitchen counter, the flowers are half watered, the cheque
book still only has one cheque in it, and I can't seem to find my car keys!
When I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I am baffled because I
KNOW I WAS BUSY ALL DAY LONG. I realize this is a serious condition. And
I'll get help, but first I'll wash the car ...."
End of my friend's e-mail.
Beginning of my own worry. Is there a cure?
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So gepraat van ou mense, nog iets:
"Senior Citizens are the Nation's Leading Carriers of AIDS.
Hearing aids, Band aids, Roll aids, Walking aids, Medical aids
and most of all
Monetry aids to their children."
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