A Great ADD Moment
April 28th, 2005“ADD moments” are how I refer to those times when I get up to do something and then completely forget about it.
I just had a particularly funny ADD moment. I was buying something online, and I had to get up to find my credit card. My credit card was in my purse just six feet away from where I was sitting.
Instead of going directly to my purse, I got up and walked out of the room and into the kitchen. I wasn’t hungry or anything, so I just walked aimlessly. Then I wandered into the bathroom, where I had nothing to do either. Finally, I walked into my bedroom. I looked in the mirror and thought, “That’s good, I’m not getting too fat,” and then I walked out of the bedroom and back to the living room/computer area again.
In the living room, I noticed that my plants were dying. One of the things about ADD is that you always forget to water your plants. So I went back to the kitchen to get a glass of water for the plants, and a funnel since pouring can be kind of messy.
Forgetting that I was going to water the plants with it, I took a sip from the glass of water. “Ewww, it’s warm,” I thought and immediately realized that the glass of water wasn’t intended for myself to drink. I then noticed the funnel in my hand and knew I had to water the plants. So I went over to water them and succeeded.
I brought the glass back to the kitchen, forgetting the funnel on the windowsill. Then I remembered that I was supposed to be getting my credit card from my purse!
I hurried over to my purse and found my wallet, and I returned to my computer. There, I took out my credit card and finally completed my online purchase. I was so relieved that it didn’t time out. It’s such a pain to have to start over when you’re buying something online, forget halfway through because of ADD, and then return to find the purchase timed out.
As soon as I finished the purchase, I went to blog about my ADD moment, knowing that it was genuinely good writing material. And as I was writing, I looked over and saw the funnel on the windowsill. “Should I go and put it back in the kitchen?” I thought. “No, I had better finish my blog entry first,” I said to myself, trying to avoid another one of those funny but aggravating ADD moments.