February 16, 2005
runaway train of thought/random thought
It started with an Academy flyer that I noticed in the pile of bi-weekly advertisements. In about five seconds, my mind had raced through the following thoughts:
Internal dialogue has been expanded into complete sentences for the sake of readability.
- What about that shotgun you were thinking about getting for next dove season?
- No, I'd rather spend that money on a new bike. Besides, I already have a shotgun.
- Yeah, that's right, and I have enough other guns too.
- Maybe I could sell one of my other guns to have more money to spend on the bike...
- No, the only one that I don't really use that much is the SKS and it was practically a graduation gift from dad.
- Hey, I bet I could find plans online to convert the SKS to fully automatic! I've been wanting to learn about machining!
- You know, I'd really rather not do anything that would put me at risk to face federal weapons charges.
Funny... sometimes when that happens to me in groups (runaway thoughts), I usually don't bother telling everyone where I ended up b/c it would make absolutely no sense to them and would take too long to explain. But it's still funny to start on one thought and end up somewhere completely different.
Posted by: Tate at February 18, 2005 09:12 AMI completely understand....both your thought process and the difficulty of explaining all of what your brain did in nano-seconds.
More than once I have been told that I didn't think about something, just because I didn't take as long to do it as that person thought was necessary!
Posted by: Mom at March 8, 2005 07:02 PM