Well, it was probably a question from you, right here in "i COULDA...". When I log in, most mornings, I can count on you to get the ol' wheels turnin'. No offense, Nance, but you're a pretty random gal!! LOL!!!
Then again, my husband seems to specialize in "from-left-field" questions. I find myself muttering "Where the hell did THAT come from" quite often.
Welcome to everyday conversations with my wife ! She tends to think about things for a while and then suddenly verbalize a statement or question exactly from whatever point she has reached , with no preamble or explanation whatever . She just assumes that you know exactly what she has been thinking .Naturally , the first response she gets from me is usually " WTF are you talking about ? "
posted by Dirck
over 2 years ago
I come up with some pretty interesting questions on my own, I don't need help from others (but you see me on this group and Intellectual Wannabees every single day).
I guess the hardest questions I've ever been asked by someone else were about human behavior and motivation. I have a degree in psychology and I'm here to tell you the books don't always have the answers, folks. Sometimes you can't imagine what a person's motivation is because it's so convoluted and weird, made up of personal perceptions, superstitions, partial information, and wishes or fears, that combine into some nauseating brew of a motivation that no one else could possibly understand.
You just gotta love 'em through it.
Actually, someone asked me the question you used as an example, so I started collecting not mustard, but vegetable oil and bought a kit and found out I could save some money and felt pretty righteous about it all, when the oil war just got started. At Thanksgiving or something when you have to tell your folks what you've been up to and the yuppie brothers and sisters talk about their professional jobs, I mentioned my conversion to WVO (waste vegetable oil). My dad smugly said, "Think about how much money you could save by running your car on night soil!" Hey, if it were doable, I'd try it, but it's just mental. This from a guy who doesn't know which way to turn a crescent wrench but can pontificate about compound interest all damn day.
Which way DO you turn a crescent wrench?
(Just kidding...)
My husband and I were laying in bed the other night...just got to bed and were cuddling and he was talking about his work day and i was starting to drift off when he says...have you ever wondered if the colour red is the same colour for you as it is for someone else? I said HUH?? He said...you know you see the colour red, you know its red, but what if its white to someone else? How can you know that the red you see is the same red someone else sees.
What the hell kind of question is that to ask someone who is trying to fall asleep?? LOL
That's hilarious Ladyjane.....lol...............and dang Mok....makes ya want to go to Thanksgiving tomorrow eh?...lol....doncha just love it?....
goodmrsfitz....LMAO....really????... that's funny......moi??.....random????.... lololol....well alright!!!!...It made my day thinkin bout that....
Ladyjane - I have wondered that very thing myself about colors! I wonder what it would be like to see things through other people's eyes - how different they might look. There must be some standard to it, though, or eye doctors would have a much harder time with us, don't you think?
Yes i have thought that question about colour too just not at 11:30 at night when im drifting off to sleep! lol....i have often wondered if everyone sees colour the same as i do. And wondered how to explain a colour to a blind person.
Not really sure, but I tend to have the "left-field" kind of thoughts here.
