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First thing this morning, 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
garbage can under the table, and notice that the can is full.
So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the
garbage 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 check book off the table, and see that there is only one
check left.
My extra checks 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 checks, 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 set the Coke down on the counter, 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 counter, fill a container with
water and suddenly I spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the
kitchen table.
 I
realize 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 den 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 counter,
the flowers don't have enough water,
there is still only one check in my check book,
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.
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