Confessions Of A Wierdo
I find in interesting how someone is who is actually very sane and normal can have such very weird and inappropriate thoughts. That someone is me of course, but I'm fairly sure I'm not alone in my thinking.
This hit me while I was at the bank on Friday. I was standing in the little roped off line and two thoughts crossed my mind. The first being, I wonder what would happen if I kicked the little metal pole the customer in front of me was leaning on? Not nice, I know. The second question was that I wondered what would happen if I suddenly started brandishing my pepper spray and declaring that "this is a holdup!" I've also had the question flashing in my head when I am trying to drive in a crowded parking lot. It's like...hmmmmmm...I wonder what would happen if I didn't slow down before reaching the pedestrian that just cut in front of me and gave me the finger?
Okay, they are inappropriate thoughts but it's not like we'd ever act on them...and I know I'm not alone...a friend once told me she hoped the 2x4's piled in the back of the truck in front of us, didn't fly out and skewer her. Go ahead and share your thoughts so I don't feel so weird.
posted by Lindsey @ 12/12/2005 06:22:00 AM
28 Comments:
I think that the problem would be if you didn't have such thoughts. All people do have these toughts at some time. It is just a matter of acting or not. It is not hard to consider the act of 'temporary insanity' when dealing with these thoughts. I mean just a small tap on that pole or the gas pedal, just a small 'slip' of the mind and the consequences that would follow.
You should have kicked over the pole just to see what would happen :)
That's my mean thought for the morning.
I think things like that all the time. Sometimes I would really like to act on them but I can't.
But then, I have never been "normal". There is no fun i n that.. I like to act like a jackass sometimes just to see the looks on peoples face. It's great, you should try it sometime!
I want to know why we allow banks to make us walk a roped-off maze like cows headed for the guillotine ...
I sometimes like to visualize picking people up around me and just flinging them in the air ...
... and I stopped doing it in college!!!
i was in the pizza place yesterday and i though what would happen if i leaned over the counter and grabbed the pillock behind the counter and told him to empty the till into a bag for me
Yesterday, while going pee, I thought the sound of it hitting water in the toilet reminded me of the sound you hear when Scooby or Shaggy are running away from a monster. Ya know, Scooby Doo, when they are trying to run away but they are standing still. I AM weird.
Good thing you didn't bring out that pepper spray and start screaming, You might not be here to tell us about it.
I have these thoughts all the time- they are my 'Ally Mcbeal' moments when what I really want to say or do to a coworker pops up. I fairly regularly wonder what it would be like to be able to pick up the slow dumbass drivers in front of me (like match box cars) and move them over...things like this keep my road rage down to a more managable level.
C
:-) Scary isn't it?
Feel like I want to jump out, float like a paraglider (not fall to a horrifying death) when I'm high up, sometimes.
I am always paranoid of going over the very tall over passes b/c I think that my car could lose control for some reason and fall hundres of feet to my death.
Or being able to tell off someone that I really wanted to without any consequenses.
i am speachless....
My thoughts are usually ones like mousetrap or dominoes. Where I see a crane or soemthing and think wouldn't it be funy to see that hit a building and cause this crazy chain reaction. So lots of deathin distruction but in my mind it looks just like an old board game.
I do stuff like that a lot. It sort of freaks me out, where do those thoughts come from? But as you said, I wouldn't ever act on them.
You know what, daily, I read your blog, and the titles of your posts alone are enough to make me laugh....despite what's written in them. =)
The 2 x 4 skewer is a frequently irrational fear that I have. Or those crazy pickup trucks with all the rusting bbq's and broken stoves and wagons piled up in the back. Tetanus shots anyone?
I often look at my dogs and wonder - what the hell are they thinking, what do they do when I'm not there. I bet he's looking at me thinking the same thing.
I have visions of falling down the back stairs at work. Feet over the head, skirt flying up, belongings littering the ground.
I would lay there for hours because it is a light traffic area in the building.
Then when they find me I'll be dead because I will have slowly and painfully bleed to death.
mergrl,
I had that happen to me. We were driving and a log had fallen off a truck and was horizontally placed on all of the lanes. We had to swerve onto the shoulder to miss it on a major interstate. About 15 minute later, we saw alot of ambulences going in that direction. I felt really sorry for the person who hit that huge log.
I always have the over whelming sensation to full the fire alarm. It's right there on the way on my way to the ladies room. D'oh!
lol na ur not alone Linny...Im wirdo number 1...I think so many wierd thoughts but ofcourse I dun act upon em..:)
I was driving last night and was passing a massive bridge...I thought for a sec what would happen if I drove myself over the bridge..lol...yess I did think of it..
Keshi.
When I see a deep pool of water I want to dive in, clothes and all...
Come to think of it...the 2x4 thing happened to my brother on the Freeway. It fell off the truck a few cars in front of him...flipped over one of the cars and then torpedoed it's way under Mitch's truck and punctured his gas tank. Got into a bad wreck that day...we all had to go to the hospital but he ended up ok. I can't believe I forgot about that.
I do that all the time. THe what if line of thought. What if I smeared pancake's all over my body and ran out in the middle of the street wearing nothing else. WOuld anyone notice?
Sometimes, when there I am alone with my thoughts on a long drive… when my buddy and I have said what there is to say at that particular time and we are just enjoying the silence… a stray thought tickles my mind and I start to chuckle. Usually I start low, just a small one, but the thought comes back, or I take it further, and start to laugh harder. My buddy looks over at me, wondering what is so funny, which makes me laugh more… then I get the ‘crazy’ look… and that starts the manic laughter. About the time he’s pulling the car over to kick me out, I try to stop laughing and try to explain.
But I won’t tell you what that thought is.
You're not alone... I think everyone does think of something like that... kind of therapy for the mind... lets you know that you really are a good person to NOT do it...
I often wish to stop my car in traffic and just walk away.
Lately I've been wanting to stop it right beside the lake and just walk into the lake and float until the men in the white coats come.
Linny, you aren't crazy. (oh crap...I'm so not the person you should believe that from. LMAO)
Now go watch Fight Club. You'll feel all better.
I often have this thought: while driving when someone cuts me off or is just messing with me, what it would be like if I just rammed into the front or back of their car. You know...just did not stop. I bet they would think twice about doing that to someone else.
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