kerewin's whine cellar

Adult OCD

Last week I ran into a vendor I worked with at my previous job. She suggested we meet in a couple of hours for lunch and one of my favorite accounts. Who am I to say no? We go, and run into the buyer there. It is great fun sitting at the counter, chatting with all the staff, pouring random things for everyone involved. Because we were at the counter, every time I wanted to pour something different from my bag I had to get up, get my bag, get out the wine, sit back down, pour. Yadda, yadda.

Buyer comes by while I am in the middle of the wine swap out and I am holding my ipod because it was in the way of getting something out of my bag. He has an ipod but not the iTrip thing that allows me to play my ipod on any radio. I suggest to him that he should just use that for his restaurant, since he has been through about 4 different, nice cd players in two years.

He has an ipod. He has all his music on it. He just doesn't get how to separate life music from work music. "No problem," says I! "Simple!"

"Oh really?" he asks.

"Sure. You just create a new folder and ..."

He interupts me, "I have adult ADD and that is just too much for me. Lots of people have tried to explain it to me and I don't get it. It is just too frustrating."

I am the ultimate teacher. Seriously. I have a way of explaining things to every different learning type. So I start in again. "That part on the left when you open iTunes..."

"Seriously, Karri. I can't take this in. I just find it frustrating. Stop."

Ok, even though I am a full glass of wine into lunch I know to stop. However, being the ultimate teacher my mind just whirs and whirs. There HAS to be an easy way to explain!

Hours later it is running through my mind. I wake up in the middle of the night with 2 or 3 different solutions. I am an obsesser. I light upon an idea and can't shake it. Apparently I have an undiagnosed case of adult OCD. Good thing to know that adult ADD trumps adult OCD.

For now.

Lunch was awesome, the company outstanding. No matter the outcome of his disorder vs mine, it is still one of my favorite accounts.

Posted by kerewin at May 16, 2006 10:28 PM