What helps me: Water, walking, and going to the bathroom.
I detect some remarkable synergies in this strategy.
You're not friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love till it kills you both.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
billytea - Apr 25, 2013 11:44:52 pm PDT #29399 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Toddson - Apr 26, 2013 4:37:42 am PDT #29400 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
erika, so sorry for your loss.
Trudy, sorry for the illness and worries.
Steph, it might be that you need to get his attention before trying to communicate. I know that sometimes I have to get people to back up and repeat something if I wasn't paying attention when they started.
On hearing - years ago, the place I worked was having a United Way fundraising event. As part of it, they were doing hearing tests. One person yelled over the cubicle wall to another, asking if she was having her hearing tested. Her response? "huh?" (in the tone of someone who hadn't heard, if the context isn't clear).
JenP - Apr 26, 2013 4:49:35 am PDT #29401 of 30001
I'm so sorry, erika.
Keeping your family in my thoughts, Trudy.
Toddson - Apr 26, 2013 4:56:26 am PDT #29402 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Just for a change, something nice.
smonster - Apr 26, 2013 4:57:48 am PDT #29403 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
In my family we call it being "caring weird." Many years ago, I said something, my mom said "what?", I made a crack about hearing impaired people and she replied "what are caring weird people?"
erikaj - Apr 26, 2013 4:58:08 am PDT #29404 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
Yes, smonster, you met Betsy. (It's nice to get the testimonials.)
sumi - Apr 26, 2013 5:10:20 am PDT #29405 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
erika - I'm so sorry for your loss.
And Trudy! OMG - I hope she turns out to be okay. So scary.
Can't wait to get the new power cord from my laptop. So frustrating to not be able to keep up with everything.
brenda m - Apr 26, 2013 5:40:12 am PDT #29406 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
In my family we call it being "caring weird." Many years ago, I said something, my mom said "what?", I made a crack about hearing impaired people and she replied "what are caring weird people?"
Heh. That's another of my dad's habits - if he mishears, he'll repeat back what he thought he heard no matter how ridiculous. "We need to clean it better." "Volcano peanut butter?" as if there was a chance in hell that was what you had actually said.
Some of this stuff is probably hearing loss, microstrokes, and general old age. But mostly it's a longstanding habit of not paying attention combined with a disregard for mental editing.
Glamcookie - Apr 26, 2013 6:13:11 am PDT #29407 of 30001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I'll add my misheard funny to list. When we were in the hospital after having Shane, the nurse came in and said, "Do you know about Shaken Baby Syndrome?" I said, "Chicken Baby Syndrome? No, I haven't heard of that."
SuziQ - Apr 26, 2013 6:16:04 am PDT #29408 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Shoot, last night K-Bug said something about bring your daughter to work day and both CJ and I heard something that included "bra spider". Looking back I don't get how I heard that, but both CJ and I heard it, so it wasn't just my ears playing tricks on me.