Welcome to a new addition to the site! This is called, “I think too much”. I think too much about everything. If I want an apple, I will think about every possible outcome I could have if I eat or don’t eat said apple. There is my first entry. Enjoy!
I like to think of myself as a very creative person. I enjoy writing short stories. Back when our family was much younger, we made some great home movies. My brother and I tried to carry on the tradition but that faded away as well. Today, we make our nieces be the stars in our movies. Cheaper and a hell of a lot funnier. If you feel up to it, watch a movie here. It’s based on a short story I wrote. It isn’t perfect. I mentioned the game “The Movies” before. I used that to make it. I really suggest you look for it. The community is amazing and has created lots of MODs for it. The possibilities are endless. The game lacked in many areas before it came out with its first and only expansion pack. I wasn’t wise in how to add in MODs and really didn’t scour the forums, looking for things to improve it. I used the tools readily available to me and went with it. Watch the flick and enjoy it. Like they say, the book is better. Maybe I’ll post that one day.
To my point. So I think I am creative. I also think too much. For example, let’s say I need to get from point A to point B. I am leaving point A and I think to myself, “Boy, I sure am hungry.” I can either go right, left, or continue going straight to point B. Left will be point C and right will be point D. I really want a burger and I have the option of going to either point C or forward, which will take me to point B quicker. This is where my thinking starts to take flight. If I go to point C, I take the risk of getting pulled over by the police for speeding. Going to point C has the better burger but also the chance of getting pulled over. I am not saying I will, but going a mile over the speed limit, can get you a ticket. The cops in point C area are bored and cruel. So now I am going to rule out point C. I don’t want a ticket. I think about what if I get the ticket? That is just going to piss me off. It’ll be a fine, possibly court. If that all happens, now I need to get time off work to go. I’ll have to hear it from my mom about the ticket, and my rates go up. That’s a mighty expensive burger. I’ll pass. But what about going to point B and stopping on the way there to get a less enjoyable burger?
I can go there but I went there just two days ago. I really don’t want to go again. I’ll begin to think about what they say about me. Sure there are people far worse than I am about going to the same place, day in and day out. If I go and overlook that, I’ll have to make a right out of the place to get to point B. Making a left would be quicker but it sucks. But at this certain time, making a left or a right out of this place is damn near impossible. I’ll imagine myself sitting there. My blinker on and traffic just whizzing by, not letting me in. I’ll gaze in my mirror and see the cars line up behind me. Not only am I getting frustrated about not being able to make a right, I am getting mad because I know the people behind me are getting mad at me for not growing a set and driving out and making my right. Going there is out of the question.
What if I go to point D? Point D is a bigger hassle than point C. If I went to point C and did make it pass the radar guns, I’ll still have to travel through a school zone infested area. Not only do I have to watch my speed, I have to make a 10 minute drive turn into a 30 minute drive. Point D doesn’t have a burger place. Chinese maybe? Yeah, but that’s even farther away from point B and I just want to eat and get to point B. Now I can get a different sandwich. If I want that sandwich, I would have to either turn around and go the opposite way, which will be point E. Going to point E means highway travel. Highway travel is bleh. I don’t mind riding on it. It’s the getting on which blows. People just don’t like to let people on. I’ll worry about getting on the highway. What if I get in a wreck? That’s worse than point C’s outcome. Going the highway is quicker. If I decide to go down point D, I will have to deal with heavier traffic and the worst lights imaginable.
Point D can lead me to point E if I need to. I can avoid highways by way of point D if I take the longer, out of my way, route. I have taken the “out of my way route” many times. No matter the times I have taken it, I always seem to take a different way. I might go left once and then right the next. Now, if I go to point D, I will have to get to point B somehow. I can’t go to point E. Point E is accessible via highway and I already said I don’t like taking merging onto highways, especially this specific one. I can go with my “out of my way route” plan. That’ll take me back to point C and from there, I can get to B. But not going via point E and taking my strange weavy route, I’ll end up farther down from point D and that leads to more trouble. It comes to another can’t make a left fiasco. I can make a right. That’s easy. A left would be better. Left will get me back to point D in an instant. But no. I cannot make a effin’ left. Ever. So now, I have to make a right. I’ll travel down this road, getting farther away from point D and point B. If I want to get this sandwich, I go from point A, to point D, and now I am at point R. R for ridiculous.
Let’s say I am at point R. Point R can take me to point E. Point E isn’t far from point D. I just have to drive through point, Q-P-O-N-M-L-K-J-I-H-G, and -F. Those are speed trap zones and school zones. That’s a headache all in its own.Point D and point B connect via point F. There is nothing really from D to F. And If I go to point D, I will have to get to point B through construction. You can’t make a left, oh no. It’s eff’ed up. Sometimes it’s open and sometimes they close it. If I take it and the left is closed, I have to keep going straight and now, I am farther away from point B. Though, it could be a blessing. Going that distance from point B leads me to another burger joint. This one is easier to get out of. I’ll just have to sacrifice traveling a back road, (which I have been in and get lost every time) and spending fifteen minutes trying to get out. The only upside to going that way, is all the back road traveling, a simple up a hill and left will take me right to point B. Maybe I am not really “farther” away from point B, but the hassle is the bigger issue. I can turn around and make a right to avoid (I’ll call it, Point V) entirely, but this route is leading me down a highway and the U-turn option isn’t readily available.
Now, I am sitting at point A, deciding where to go. All that thinking, is probably a good minute. This isn’t even a serious problem. This is me trying to figure out what I want to eat. I could try something else but that will just piss me off. I don’t like new things. Maybe I am over thinking it. But this is how I am. This is just me, sitting in my car, thinking about what I want to eat. Imagine if I had a serious issue to deal with.
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