Have you ever said that? When someone is talking, or as something pops in your head, you say "Oh! Speaking of....." as if to remind yourself? That happens to me, a lot. Almost too much. For me, it's an epidemic. Unfortunately, my husband considers it a disease. Why? Because I say it when I'm thinking things, and not necessarily when we're talking about something. Confused? Okay, let me break it down for you:
Husband and I are cooking together in the kitchen. He spills something. As he reaches for a cloth towel to clean it up, one that I notice has been on the counter for a bit and looks like it could use a good washing, I think to myself, in my head, that towel needs to be washed. And then, like a lightning bolt, I immediately remember that I'm in the middle of a cycle and that I don't hear the dryer running, and so I must restart it (still thinking to myself, recall, we're completely silent, no speaking is happening) and so I say, out loud, "Oh! Speaking of laundry, I need to go restart the dryer," and I walk out of the room, leaving my husband, standing there, lookin' at me as if I just gave birth to a goat, wondering what on Earth I am talking about, as we weren't talking to each other at all, let alone about laundry.
An epidemic. An illness. It's the "I-can't-differentiate-between-my-inner-voice-and-my-spoken-voice" syndrome.
Anyone else?
November 18, 2008
"Oh Yeah! Speaking Of..."
Labels: getting older, humor, husbands, responsibility
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9 comments:
Why yes actually I find myself doint this quite often LOL>
After all these years my husband just goes with it --- it can be quite humorous sometimes (at least to him)!
Yeah, I have many conversations with myself and sometimes they are out loud! Glad I am not alone!
LOL
I could pretend you are the only crazy ones... but I cannot! LOL
Oh thank goodness I'm not alone! :) Yay! hee hee
Oh, tears in my eyes. Oh my goodness. I think my husband would appreciate if I did it that way more often. Here's Captain America's favorite: We'll be driving along, and I'll see something that reminds me of something, but instead of "speaking of" I just yell "OH!!!" at which point he thinks he's about to hit a car, or a deer, or has missed our turn, or something else horrible is happening. And then I follow it with something like, "I forgot to tell you, I read the funniest thing on a blog today" and then I'm pretty sure he wants to open my door and shove me out.
That's funny! I've been known to do that a time or two. =)
Right there with ya'! My husband doesn't even react anymore :)
I do the same thing and I also ask the same question within 5 minutes of asking the first time. I'm convinced I lost some brain cells with each pregnancy. My memory is not as sharp any more.
Thanks for the giggle!
I do something similar! Hubby and I will be talking about say what kinds of toothbrush and I will say "Oh hey that reminds me, so and so and I talked about toothbrushes today. She told me the funniest story [fill in the blank with any topic that has NOTHING to do with toothbrushes]".
I have word association issues I guess.
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