Scenes That Haven't Happened or A Rhetorical Thread.

[MrNewportCustom]

While at work a couple days ago, I got to thinking through a scene that has never happened, and who knows if it ever will. Actually, thinking through scenes that have never happened is something I do on a fairly regular basis. (I don't often have a very busy schedule at work.) This latest scene bounced round and round in my gray matter like a tornado in a mobile home park, and went something like this:

I pictured a time in my near future, a few months from now, and I've amassed a small collection of vintage clothing; suits, shoes, hats and such. I put on my very best vintage garments, grab a couple new fedoras to show, and am ready to leave the house for another of John in West Covina's gala affairs, when my younger brother sees me and says, "Why do you like wearing those old clothes? Don't you feel like you're out of fashion? You know, like when as children we had to wear hand-me-downs?"

Well, it's not like I've ever really been in fashion, but I respond to him in this way: I pause and think for a moment, then turn and say to him, "Am I being asked this question by a guy who wears tie-dyed shirts once a week and then goes to various conventions dressed like either a futuristic space man, or a warrior or wizard from some fantasy civilization? At least my clothes are from an era that actually existed."

We have a good laugh, and then I'm out the door and he goes back to his World of WarCraft.


Lee
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Just some thoughts.

 

[carter]

Ain't peaceful coexistence a wunnerful thing!

 

[sweetfrancaise]

Ah yes...those moments that we all almost wish we had.

When someone comes up to me and says, "I'm looking for a book", I really have to surpress the urge to say, "Congratulations, you made it this far!" and leave the CS counter. I sometimes wonder about the reaction, which would either be a dumb stare or a well-deserved laugh.

I think the person who laughed would be a good friend. lol

 

[Diamondback]

I think the person who laughed would be a good friend. lol

lol That would be funny... lol

Unfortunately, I'd almost-certainly be your worst nightmare as a customer, always looking for exotic technical literature that even Powell's has to keep in the Rare Book Room. I'd probably end up keeping the local florist in business picking up bouquets every time I needed to place a special order or something...

 

[ShortClara]

I do have daydreams about things that haven't happened, or things I wish would happen. I believe in the power of positive thinking to influence your life in a positive way, so I try to keep them about what I want in life. Imagining the perfect role or audition, the perfect vintage dress, whatever. Just a small example, but I do find that when I determine and think to find a certain type of thing in terms of vintage, I start finding it.

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

I do have daydreams about things that haven't happened, or things I wish would happen. I believe in the power of positive thinking to influence your life in a positive way, so I try to keep them about what I want in life. Imagining the perfect role or audition, the perfect vintage dress, whatever. Just a small example, but I do find that when I determine and think to find a certain type of thing in terms of vintage, I start finding it.

I hear ya,...read my signature line below. Synchronicity works.
I've been envisioning and working toward being totally self employed, and therefore totally independent of control freak bosses with whom I am completely and irrevocably fed up.
So far so good, things are coming together. Maybe not exactly as I think it should be, but better in the end I'm sure. It's all good.

 

[K.D. Lightner]

I am in a commercial on TV, walking down the street or standing to the side at a wine and cheese party, and a voice-over says, "K. D. Lightner, you have just won the Nobel prize for literature! What's next?"

I pump my arm in the air and say, "I'm going to Disneyland!"


karol

 

[Nashoba]

All the time....but that's classified information too

although most of them have to do with me being on an old camp show style USO show....*sigh* I would've been a helluva USO girl....

 

[ShortClara]

I hear ya,...read my signature line below. Synchronicity works.
I've been envisioning and working toward being totally self employed, and therefore totally independent of control freak bosses with whom I am completely and irrevocably fed up.
So far so good, things are coming together. Maybe not exactly as I think it should be, but better in the end I'm sure. It's all good.

Self-employment - that's one of mine, too! Good luck with your synchronistic visions!