How to tell if you’re losing the plot…


Not that I’d know or anything.

Everything is perfectly normal.

Putting two completely different shoes on in the morning happens to everyone from time to time. Noticing that they are two left shoes as you are about to leave the house must have been experienced by thousands of people around the world.

Spraying shaving gel under one’s arms, thinking it is deodorant, has been mentioned in classic novels, it’s that widespread an experience.

Trying to open the car door with the house key is so regular an occurrence it is hardly worth mentioning. As is trying to use the security pass card, that lets you into work, to open the boot. And using the house key to get into work, well, that old chestnut has been around since the invention of work.

Writing the wrong name on a form where your name should be; we’ve all done that. Nothing unusual there.

Forgetting completely and totally a work colleague (name, face, personality) who you have sat next to for five or so years… easily done.

Going into one room to urgently do something, but as soon as you are in the room the question ‘what have I come in here for?’ springs to mind. Very common an experience, perfectly normal.

Trying to answer the remote control when the phone rings, or turn over the TV channel with a glasses case, or even pressing a spy hole on a door to ring the doorbell – everyday things. Nothing to write home about.

No. None of the above, if you experience them, indicate you are losing the plot.

Moving the computer mouse and wondering why the curser is moving down the screen when it should be moving up, and suddenly realising that you are watching an artificial WordPress snowflake head towards the bottom of the screen is the key. Wondering why that particular artificial snowflake, rather than the twenty or so others, caught your attention so vividly that you blanked out the curser on the screen completely is another indicator. And writing a blog post about said artificial snowflake all add up to the fact that your plot is very lost indeed.

Or you are.

But you wouldn’t know, as everything is perfectly normal.

16 responses to “How to tell if you’re losing the plot…”

  1. Andra Watkins avatar

    Ah, plot. It is a beast, isn’t it? Just keep writing. It will surface again eventually.

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    1. Tom (Aquatom1968) avatar

      True… it comes and goes!

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  2. prenin avatar

    Story of my life of late! 🙂

    I keep forgetting things for minutes at a time, go to Google to ask the great beast what I need only for the answer to pop up unbidden – yes, Amiss the dog is the Chosen one! 🙂

    Perfectly normal for me I guess… 🙂

    God Bless!

    Prenin.

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    1. Tom (Aquatom1968) avatar

      It’s all good fun though, Prenin! 😀

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  3. Tilly Bud - The Laughing Housewife avatar

    Have you been spying on me? 🙂

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    1. Tom (Aquatom1968) avatar

      Oh, do things like this happen to you too, Tilly? I thought it was just me… 😉

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  4. Visionkeeper avatar
    Visionkeeper

    By the way T…Have you realized the direction of the snow flakes changes to the direction your mouse is going? If the snow goes around in circles instead of straight down, then you’ve REALLY lost the plot Tom 🙂 VK

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    1. Tom (Aquatom1968) avatar

      I did notice that, VK.. and sometimes the snow is drawn to the mouse and at others it is repelled from it! But no circles, I’m relieved to say!

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  5. Let's CUT the Crap! avatar

    Been there; done that. How did YOU know?

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    1. Tom (Aquatom1968) avatar

      We seem to be creatures of habit, Tess… either that or it’s just a coincidence! 😉

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  6. kateshrewsday avatar

    Try, all of the above, Tom: these sound very familiar in my life..

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    1. Tom (Aquatom1968) avatar

      It’s fun though, Kate, isn’t it?

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  7. nrhatch avatar

    Haha . . . this reminds me of a poem aobut a backwards kind of day. Perhaps by Shel Silverstein.

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    1. Tom (Aquatom1968) avatar

      I think I remember the poem, Nancy, but have no idea who it was by!
      Backwards days are fun!

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  8. shreejacob avatar

    I’ve done a few of those things myself. At this very moment…I feel like I’m losing the plot and not in a good way either! Ugh

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    1. Tom (Aquatom1968) avatar

      Shree, try to think of these steps away from the plot as a rehearsal for a future storyline you will be writing. That way, you can say you have intended to do it, even if you hadn’t! 😉

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