This is how it manifests itself.
I decide to water my flowers in the front garden.
As I go to turn on the hose I look over at my car and decide it needs washing.....So I go to get the car keys from the porch and then notice the mail on the porch table.
I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car.
I put my car keys on the table, put the junk mail in the bin under the table and notice that the bin is full, so I put the bills back on the table and decide to take out the rubbish first....but then I think I can run out to the post-box when I take out the rubbish, so I may as well pay the bills first.
I take my cheque-book off the table and see that there is only one cheque left. My other cheque-book is in the computer desk, so I go inside the house to my desk where I find the can of Coke I had been drinking. I'm going to look for my second cheque-book but first I reckon I'd better push the Coke aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over. I pick it up and as it's getting warm I think I should put it in the fridge to keep it cold.
As I head toward the kitchen with the Coke a vase of flowers on the windowsill catches my eye and I can see they need water. I put the Coke down on the window-ledge and discover my reading-glasses that I've been looking for all morning, so I decide to put them back on the computer desk, but first I'd better water those flowers.
I put the glasses back down on the window sill, fill a container with water and suddenly spot the TV remote. I must have left it on the kitchen table.
I realise that tonight when I go to watch TV I'll be looking for the remote and I won't remember that it's on the kitchen table, so I decide to put it back in the living room where it belongs after I've watered the flowers.
I pour some water on the flowers and manage to spill some on the floor, so I set the remote back on the table, get a towel and wipe up the spilled water. Then I head down the hall, trying to remember what I was planning to do.
At the end of the day:
The flower tubs aren't watered;
The car isn't washed;
The bills aren't paid;
There is a warm can of Coke sitting on the window sill;
The flowers in the vase don't have enough water;
There is still only one cheque in my chequebook;
I can't find the remote;
I can't find my glasses;
I have absolutely NO idea what I did with my car keys;
Then when I try to work out why nothing got done today I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all damned day and I'm really tired.
I know this is a serious problem and I'll try to get some help for it, but first I'll check my email... if I can find my glasses.
