Re: CHAT: The love of inventing & conscripts (Was: Re: I'm new!)

Adam Walker wrote:
>
> >From: jesse stephen bangs <jaspax@...>
> >>I still do :-(.  When I passively ride in a vehicle, I imagine the exact
> >same sword cutting down *everything* on the side of the road.  Or I
> >imagine that there is someone that has to ride on the side of the road
> >along the tops of trees or telephone wires and he has to keep up with the
> >car by jumping or whatever.  It can be very irritating, but almost
> >involuntary.
> >
>
> This is too weird.  How many of us do this same thing??  I'm guilty.  Is
> this all part of one huge neurotic OCD whose end result is conlanging???
> *erie background music*
I do that as well, though only when I focus intently on what's out the
window.

> >I still try not to step on cracks in the sidewalk.
> >
> Or alternately try to step on all of them, or certain patterns of them, or
> catch them exactly where the instep of your shoe meets the heel.  *more
> music*
That's me, right there. I'll pick one pattern and stick with it for the
whole 30 minute walk to school, and then a different pattern on the way
home. Every weekday from September to June.

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Robert
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