Reply To: Funniest ADD Moment — What's yours?

[mulegirltx]

OMG I’ve laughed SO hard at this thread. Many, many very familiar moments or situations I could easily imagine myself in. I’ve locked my keys in the running car more times than I can list. I’ve also carefully locked up everything in and around my house only to get up in the morning and realize the keys to my truck were still in it. And I’m notorious for rushing around madly searching for something I’m clutching in my hand.

Whenever I go off my routine I get into trouble. I smoke only outside, so my habit is I leave my front door unlocked until I’m ready to go to bed, because my door has one of those electronic lock things and I have no key. Well, one night I thought I’d go to bed, so I flipped the lock, but then I got distracted by some fascinating website, and thought I’d have one last smoke before going to bed.

Yes…I stepped outside, very carefully closed the door fully so my dogs wouldn’t rush out and go barking and wake up my landlord (I live in a guest house). When I went to go back inside the door was locked! I frantically searched around for my cell phone for the electronic lock code I’d carefully put into it so I would remember it…but I’d plugged my cell phone in next to my bed as part of my bedtime routine before getting distracted by the website. !!

My dogs started barking at me when I tried to break in through the bedroom windows, but one of the things I like about this place is it’s pretty much burglar proof. So, with my dogs inside and everything all ready for bed, I wound up sleeping in my truck which, thankfully, I leave unlocked. I used the dog blanket I leave in there for covers, and waited until my landlord’s former house manager (who is herself, thankfully, very ADHD) to wake up and figure out how to get me back in.

My dogs were VERY confused. But she and I laughed heartily for a long time about it.

One of the reasons I own donkeys is because you must have a sense of humor to have them around. If you don’t, they’ll quickly play enough tricks on you to either lighten you up or cause you to sell them. So I identify with them very much. One time my ex, who was going through an unusually humorless period of his life, was bringing in their “nummies” (oats and cookies) when a mammoth donkey I owned, who was 17 hands high (very, very, very big donkey), was so excited and wiggling all over the place that he wound up knocking into my ex. I think that particular donkey was very ADD and much like me.

Anyway, his wiggling caused all four donkeys’ dishes to fly way up in the air, turn upside down, and spill all of the nummies right smack down on my ex’s head and down his shirt. My donkey then ran over to me to “protect” him, where we all (me and the donkeys) laughed until we couldn’t breath at my ex, who was fuming when I told him it definitely WAS funny and hopefully he’d realize how funny it was later.  Three years later I began telling that story, but first looked at my ex and asked “is it funny  yet?” LOL.

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