but they might want to start writing things down to help them
remember...
Later that night, while watching TV, the old man gets up from his chair.
'Want anything while I'm in the kitchen?' he asks.
'Will you get me a bowl of ice cream?'
'Sure.'
'Don't you think you should write it down so you can remember it?' she
asks.
'No, I can remember it.'
'Well, I'd like some strawberries on top, too.
Maybe you should write it down, so's not to forget it?'
He says, 'I can remember that. You want a bowl of ice cream with
strawberries.'
'I'd also like whipped cream. I'm certain you'll forget that, write it
down?' she asks.
Irritated, he says, 'I don't need to write it down, I can remember it!
Ice cream with strawberries and whipped cream - I got it, for goodness
sake!'
Then he toddles into the kitchen. After about 20 minutes,
The old man returns from the kitchen and hands his wife a plate of
bacon and eggs.
She stares at the plate for a moment.
'Where's my toast?
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Retirement Party Jokes --
Retirement Party Jokes -- Retirement Party Jokes --
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 my car needs washing.
As I start toward the garage, I notice that there is mail on the porch
table that I brought up 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 rubbish
bin under the table, and notice that the bin is full.
So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the
rubbish 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 chequebook off the table, and see 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 can of coke that I
had been drinking.
I'm going to look for my cheques, 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 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 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 realise 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 lounge 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
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 warm can of coke sitting on
the work
surface
* The flowers 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 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 day long, 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 checkmy e-mail.
PS. I just remembered, I left the water running..