Funny anecdotes: Incidents with B.Z.

Hi again y'all! I'm back for my second post, and this time it's just a couple of anecdotes. The first one happened a while back while we were walking down to the store. As we were walking, B.Z. and I start discussing some boring stuff, and while doing so he started to imagine several outcomes (some of them involving his imminent and inescapable doom) in quite an astonishing way. While he was in the middle of his rant, I interrupted him and told him to shut up, and he did.

Here I should add that about a week later we we're walking the same route, only on the other side of the road (same direction) and he was doing the exact same thing, and I told him that thinking like that might give him anxiety, and then he smiled, laughed and said "Yeah, I'm just over thinking it a bit" and we went about our business.

Back to the main story: I just told him to shut up after being real imaginative. So I tell him "B.Z. Shut up! This is gonna wow you." so he shuts up, and I say "Last time we walked across this bridge in the exact same direction, you were doing the same thing, and using the same excuse!" Then he remembered last time, laughed, and we now call that bridge his "anxiety-bridge".

The second incident happened today, right after we had watched some Penn&Teller. We we're sitting around and talking about something or other. As the episode ended (I spent 5 minutes trying to remember this) I was eating a nice sammich, and as I was done with the last piece, I exhaled deeply in relief due to the mastication finally being a thing of the past, and proclaimed to the living room in general: "That was tiresome to eat". He then asked which part of eating it was that was tiresome. "Was it the eating part?" I told him that it was getting tiresome to masticate, since that's basically what eating is (chewing and swallowing, if you exclude the parts you cant control yourself). He agreed, and said "sometimes I'm not entirely in it with the mind".

Before we watched P&T he had mentioned the same thing. So I told him "You know what? I'm gonna give you brain-excercises since you seem to be having trouble losing your train of thought." He looks oddly at me in disbelief and laughs a bit nervously. I am dead serious, ofcourse, as he is about to learn. He then said "It's just that I can have some short-term trouble sometimes. Its not that I forget what we're talking about. I'm just thinking along this line, and suddenly it splits into MANY lines, and it goes off into a random direction."

I then stare at him in disbelief and say: "Dude, thats exactly what losing your train of thought is!" and after he had stared a bit at me I added "Ok, here's my first Brain-excercise: Tell me about what just happened." He starts laughing and puts his face into his hands as I pressure him to recount it. After a while he starts, and recounts the whole thing.

Man, ain't I an asshole?

Hope this was vaguely entertaining. I had spent the day thinking about stupidity and politics, but I guess theres enough of that, so it can wait.

See you next time!