Small Weirdness
Sometimes little things happen any they are just weird enough to get your attention. A day or two ago, when I turned on my computer and logged on, it kept telling me that wasn’t the correct password. It WAS the correct password. After about ten tries (I am nothing if not persistent) I shut the computer down, went and got another cup of coffee, came back, started it up again and it all went fine. Good, right? I should just move on. Something about it keeps niggling at my mind; that shouldn’t happen.
After coming back from vacation, I was greeting the local harriss (guard/fix-it guy/ car wash guy) and then, as he watched, I slowly continued backing out, then forward – straight into a rubber wrapped pole.
I was going slowly. I have done this turn a couple thousand times before. Maybe I wasn’t paying enough attention, but it was really really embarrassing. Later, I checked my bumper, which has a dimple in it. It was so hot, it just sort of melted in, nothing broke. It’s just plastic, these bumpers today. I was hoping I could pop it back out, but it’s not exactly poppable, and it looks like maybe it was meant to be there, except there isn’t one on the other side. Why did I hit the pole? I’ve never hit that pole before.
I know, I know, I can hear you sighing in exasperation and saying “MOVE ON!” but these little things get snagged in my mind sometimes and bother me.
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LOL Don’t worry! Weird stuff happen all the time! no biggie! If you think about it, these little things break the routine of normality, its nice >=~p
🙂 both are actions that you do so often that they no longer require conscious thought, so your sub-conscious steers your body while your conscious mind is processing something else.
I’ve done the same thing with passwords – I know them by heart, and my fingers know the typing by heart, and … sometimes my fingers get off track. And before we left Beirut, H drove into a massive series of potholes 250m from his parents’ house – the same series of potholes that have been there for as long as I can remember. He knew the road, and he knew the potholes, and yet suddenly there we were, thud-thud-thudding our way towards a major axle misalignment.
I think your fingers and your steering are fine – but your sub-conscious mind must be busy processing something, meaning that its having trouble giving full concentration to its usual tasks.
Maybe its processing the vacation 🙂 🙂 🙂
Hi Olorin! I’m happy to see you again! You are right, they aren’t biggies.
On the other hand, they aren’t interesting, either, they are sort of negative and downers. Like my computer telling me my access code isn’t right – that’s just not right! And a little bit scary, like maybe . . . am I losing it?
Little Diamond, Ha hahahahahahaha. OK, now you made me laugh, I feel better, it’s all falling back into perspective. ahhh. . . .vacation!
Maybe you just had the caps-lock on 😛
You know, 3baid, that might have been it.
Now, how do you explain my driving into the pole?