There’s more than one kind of drumstick
Do you ever feel like it’s taking much longer for you to “get” things than it should? That it’s taking too long for things to “click”?
Ha. I am not talking about learning something new, or figuring out new work procedures/policies/whatever. That stuff understandably takes awhile. No, I am just talking about day to day conversation, when what someone is talking about is not “clicking,” even though it should.
Poor Gina. She seems to get the worst of it from me, probably because we chat so much via text, and even with handy dandy emoji, it’s hard to fully explain yourself in the written word (like with this blog! or email!).
So a few weeks ago she texts me and says something like, “The baton [for the Rock ‘n’ Roll relay] is a drumstick!”
My response? “Eww.”
Hers? “???”
Ha ha. Um, I was not picturing this type of drumstick (which is what it was, duh):
I was picturing the type of drumstick you pick up to eat, at a Medieval fair. Which makes NO sense. Whatsoever. At all.
Gina laughed at it, and then it was joke for a few weeks, but I just keep thinking, “What the hell is my problem? Meat drumstick? Really?! For a Rock ‘n’ Roll race?! Why didn’t I ‘get’ that?! Can we say derrrrrrrrrrrrrrp?!”
There’s just been more and more incidences like that where I am paying attention to what the person is saying, but for some reason, it’s not connecting in my brain, and then it happens – I respond way too soon. I don’t take time to think it out. So the person is just like, “huh?” Gah. I am lucky my friends put up with me.
So, conclusion: I need to slow down, and think things through before I respond. I like to be a quick responder, but sometimes that is not the best! Ha! Especially when it comes to needing to let your emotions cool down before you respond to something, but that is a completely different topic…
Themocracy
Hahahaha! That’s really funny though. And passing meat around WOULD be gross…
I do that sometimes, where my brain just doesn’t seem to want to take the path most travelled. It likes to skip to parts unknown and encounter really weird things in conversation 😛
I was even thinking plastic drumstick! Just, duh, Kim. Duh.
Ha! We would have a very interesting conversation together! I have a hard time holding back when some minuscule thing someone says makes me think of something else. Then I say “Oh, I said that because what you said made me think of this…” and explain my thought process. Because people really care (not).
I think that would be better for a turkey trot than an RnR race. 😉
Hahahaha!!
Ha! I wonder if there are any Turkey Trot relays!
My Reach the Beach team used a plastic chicken one year as our baton- so we had the kind of drumstick you were thinking of as part of our baton!
I would prefer the baton be an ice cream drumstick, mmmm.
Ha ha ha! I posted a picture of an ice cream drumstick on her FB wall the next day and wrote “this kind?!” lol
Derpity do da! It made me laugh so hard!! I’m glad you didn’t make the connection right away!
Maybe that just means that you’re more creative than most and tend to think outside the box?! Definitely not a negative. At worst, it creates a good laugh opportunity 🙂
My biggest offense when it comes to responding too quickly is that I say “what?” or “huh?” because I didn’t get what the person said but then am able to process the original comment before the person responds for the second time. It’s like my brain is on delay but my mouth can’t wait.
Oh gosh! I sometimes do that when I can’t understand what someone said, then after I say that, I put it together but they are already annoyed by repeating themselves… that is not us though. They need to speak up and enunciate. Ha!
LOL!!! This made me giggle…it COULD however be argued that a Turkey leg drumstick from one of the festivals we’d go to in Texas-would be large enough to pass off…BAHAHAHA!
HAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I feel like there now needs to be a Thanksgiving day relay with a turkey drumstick.
I just had to tell you how much this cracked me up. Still laughing…
Aww, I am happy it did! You deal with this with me, a lot, too!
“Bobbi! What are the words on this photo implying?!?!”
“Chill the eff out, Kim.”
Haha! My friends and I have a long list of this type of stuff. We call them “Check!” I don’t remember exactly why. My favorite was back in high school, my best friend (now sis in law) Melissa was driving me and our friend Kiel somewhere. Probably like Taco Bell, haha. Anywho, we were at a stop light, and there was some song on the radio and we were jamming and Melissa was doing some dance move in her seat. Then the green arrow came on for her to turn and we’re like “go Melissa!” and she was all “I’m going!” continuing to do her dance move. And we were like “no … green arrow!” and she was like “… I don’t know that move!” and we’re like “no … turn the car!” I’ll try to remember some of mine.
LOL! That is so funny! You guys came up with a green arrow dance move after that, right?!??! Please tell me you did 🙂
my mom and I had something similar over the phone 5 minutes ago..two totally different ways of seeing things using the same words.. “I ran out of work when I shouldn’t have”, I meant I should have stayed, and she thought I was out of work to do
My first thought was meat drumstick too! I actually couldn’t think what other drumstick there was until I looked at the picture of Data. Can I claim sleep deprivation or being blonde??
You can claim motherhood!!! (so, sleep deprivation!)
I have major distraction issues and it’s a struggle most days to get a lot of things done. They get done, but I get frustrated easily because I want to do much more. I keep putting stuff on my to do lists just to make sure I don’t forget ideas I have and things I have to do.
Do you feel like you are taking too long to do things, or forgetting the things you want to do? It’s so weird… I will think of doing something while I am away from my computer (where I need to do it) then come back and forget it until a couple of hours later. LOL! I should send myself an email when I think of it.