Living with Bob and "Al"

In Sheri's never ending quest to keep Bob involved in something, Sheri tried something new this weekend. She purchased several packs of cheap colored drinking straws from the dollar store. She had to tell a fib-let, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do... Sheri told him they needed to help prepare some craft items for the kids bible group at church ( this is actually some thing they used do, so when Sheri prompted him, he said he remembered doing it a long time ago, but who knows right?) Anyway the only direction was to cut them all the same length. Sheri gave him one already cut to use as a pattern and then handed him the pile. Sheri thought for sure that one step would be easy enough for Bob to handle. But she was very wrong. Sequencing is one of "Al's" worst functions. It was not that Bob was not trying, or even that he was frustrated. He just simply could not do it, or hang on to the direction long enough to do it. Sheri was happy that it kept him occupied for a while so she could clean house, but sad to see the loss of function.
Subtle changes.