Every so often, my mind will take a situation I’m in, insert a hypothetical comment or action by someone (usually something that’s confrontational in some way), then run with the whole conversation.
Take the other day, for example (well, due to my peculiar drafting process and a inadvertent hiatus from this site, ‘the other day’ was in fact over two months ago, but still, that’s not strictly relevant to this post). On the way home I cycled past an ambulance that had seen to a crash of some sort just by the stadium. Wondering if they might chastise me for my lack of helmet, my mind then envisaged one of them mentioning me not wearing a helmet, then carried on the conversation with my response:
“Quit complaining; I’m a registered organ donor!”
At the point I became consciously aware that I was doing it, and stopped. But sometimes it gets carried away, and I end up getting angry at someone for something they haven’t done.
It happens quite a lot at work, where someone has phoned up asking for assistance, and in the time it’s taken me to walk to the room in question I’ve already run through the events in my mind of what’ll happen when I get there. Usually I end up disappointed because I’ve shown up ready for a fight with someone who’s being unreasonable, and they end up being a sweet old lady with arthritis who can’t operate the remote control, or some such thing (well okay, it’s not often that bad, but you get the idea).
Sometimes I do the same thing, but instead of getting ready for a fight, I’ll successfully get a red-light-running cyclist into a hammerlock until the police arrive, or some such thing.
I’m pretty sure I read somewhere that most men do this.
Right?
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