Found this list on Mental Floss, and thought, what a dandy set of jumping off points.
1. Talking to yourself. Yup. Always have. I remember babbling to myself when very little indeed, long songs of syllables and sounds, stories and thoughts. Now, I disguise it, as most adults must, but I still do it soundlessly in public. Days alone, I chatter at myself the whole time. Cats don't mind, D has headphones on.
2. Repeating stories. I never remember to whom I have told what tales. Often, I simply stop myself saying anything. Except of course, with D, who never minds me repeating myself, and I gladly listen to his stories over and over, through the years.
3. Dropping a cell phone, in a toilet, has not happened to me. Partly because I don't have one. My short stint with the electronic leash, and inadequate coverage, meant rare calls, so I never depended on it for much. But once, in Basic, my dogtags slipped from my neck as I sat on the toilet. Felt the slither of the chain then the metallic hiss on the porcelain under the water. I knew I had to put my hand through the pisswater and get it. Drill Sergeant would not sympathize if I flushed it through squeamishness. Took a deep breath, and did exactly that, pulled them out, washed them, put them back around my neck. With a slight shudder.
4.Lying about seeing a movie, or reading a book. Never. I get seen as snobbish because I do read a lot, and see a lot of films. Omitted admitting I'd seen something, sure, just a matter of not bothering. But if I've not seen it, I can't imagine pretending I did. That sort of lie makes no kind of sense to me.
5. Pushing a Pull door. Actually find this very reassuring, that it's non standard, and not really our fault.
6. Getting song lyrics wrong. Oh, always. Never could pick out sung words as well as written ones. I will look up lyrics to get them, but I sometimes expect those people don't hear them perfectly either. Not like singers ever change them, or slur.
5 comments:
100% with you on this. and yeah, why the hell would you lie about reading a book or seeing a movie? makes zero sense…though i have, on occasion, floundered on that one. there are films and books that have become such a part of the collective knowledge that i sometimes think i saw them but didn't really. who DOESN'T know marlon brando's stanley kowalski holler "stellaaaa!!!" i am almost certain that i saw "a streetcar named desire" but i didn't.
never did drop my cellphone in the toilet. thank god.
yep, i'm with you.
although i have a cellphone, i have never dropped it in the toilet, although things i have in my pockets sometimes have fallen in toilets.
i have never used a cellphone in a bathroom. mostly i keep mine turned off and in a bag.
and song lyrics? i GET MY OWN LYRICS wrong.
i wish that were a joke.
don't you hate it when you write a song, and then you forget the lyrics and sing them wrong on the recording?
In Japan, I splatted up again a glass door once thinking it was a push ... yes, it was a sliding door. Duh!! What the people on the other side must have thought watching me try to unsquish myself, I'll never know. They hid it well.
pc,
Ah, well, being mistaken is another matter. Some movies seem to get in my osmosis.
flask,
I'll have to imagine, but I can't see why one wouldn't forget even one's own words. I have trouble getting out my own thoughts coherently at times.
Rou,
Sometimes our role in life is to provide comic relief for others.
Talking to myself - yes.
Repeating stores - I don't tend to tell stories much, so it is hard for me to repeat.
I haven't dropped my cell phone. My wife, twice, left hers on the top of a car and drove off.
Lying about seeing a movie or having read a book? As you say, seems a little ridiculous to me.
I've entered an exit door and exited by an enter door.
I'm pretty good at song lyrics but do occasionally get them wrong.
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