weird shit about me #1,245

[iphignia939]

Since I was a kid, I've had this weird...I don't know, verbal tic, kind of. I mutter to myself. Not always out loud - usually not, if anyone else is around - but pretty much constantly in my head. Seriously, I spent half of high school doing this with Buffy quotes. IDK, it's soothing. And occasionally, I add in stuff to the rotation. (The Thirst gave me "Sometimes they get loose, so, you know, that's why you have the nail gun," which you have to do in a terrible Russian accent.)

So when I tell you that sometimes when I'm stuck in traffic, or doing something irritating, I mutter "you'd better lawyer up, asshole, because I'm not coming back for 30%, I'm coming back for everything", no one should be terribly surprised, at this point.

(You have to whisper it, though. For EFFECT.)

--anyone else do this, or am I just crazier than normal?

Comments

[northern]

I do, but with music and conversations instead.

[iphignia939]

I do it with music occasionally--there are whole reams of FOB lyrics that cycle through my head--but mostly non-music media.

[margrave]

All the time! Except I have whole conversations in character! It is like verbal fanfic - I imagine what certain characters would say in certain situations and off I go. The husband use to think I was on the phone. Now he knows I'm insane.

[iphignia939]

I try really hard not to do it in public, mostly because people think you're crazy. BUT IT IS SO HANDY AT ALL TIMES.

[margrave]

Me too! But it HELPS me THINK!

Like, I have moments where I don't know what to do (social situations, work crap), and for some reason I get the urge to SPEAK in CHARACTER, because fictional characters are so much BETTER at solving PROBLEMS!

...

I'm not insane. Honest.