Friday, July 23, 2010

Does this happen to you?

You know when you are in the middle of telling a story and you suddenly realize its not as funny or as relevant as you thought it was, but you are already committed to telling the story so you need to finish it? Yeah. That never happens to me! Haha. No seriously, I hate that! I'll be telling a story that in my head sounded awesome, but as the words are coming out I'm realizing more and more that it only really makes sense in my head and now I sound like an idiot. So I start babbling even more, trying to make the story better, but my mind is telling me "Just shut up already - the story wasn't that good before, but now it's worse" and then you're kind of talking but stop because the voice in your head seems to be louder than your actual voice and you're listening to what it has to say. Meanwhile, the person you are telling the story to thinks you're having some kind of brain fart or aneurysm because you've stopped talking and all they can think is "Wow, this is a dumb story. I wish she would hurry up and finish it already because I'm tired of looking interested and besides, I have a better story that I want to tell. Why the hell did she stop talking? OMG have I been saying this out loud?" So then the person listening to your story has a face because they don't know if they were dissing you out loud, you have a face because you can't remember the rest of your story, you both are trying to figure out if the other person knows what you're thinking and this whole thing could have been avoided if you just kept your mouth shut! Awkward....

1 comment:

  1. haha. i totally understand... what's worse: you realize that the story is lame in the middle of telling it and stop...or, your audience lets you finish and then you have to apologize afterwards (?)

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