8 Responses to "Bad Tongue!"
June 30, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Hmm, probably a different situation, but my wife has told me I promised to do something and I have absolutely no recollection of making that promise. Though in that situation it might have been a case of my mouth being on auto-pilot with no oversight from the brain.
June 30, 2008 at 6:48 pm
This usually doesn’t happen w/ my mouth. Usually it’s my fingers that can’t stop talking. Such as my first BC discussion. Bad hand smack, smack.
June 30, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Ha! ha! Ha! Shirley scooped me. I was going to say exactly the same thing. I don’t usually have these slips of the lip. I only seem to experience the phenomenon when I’m typing and worrying about the editing time expiring.
June 30, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Thank you for this. It was therapeutic My tounge and brain are even on speaking terms anymore. My tounge even disobeys my brain. I will say there’s that lady with the funny hat. Don’t say anything. “Oh Hi, Lady. Funny hat.”
Doh!
June 30, 2008 at 10:33 pm
Always this happens, drives me nuts…and I have the typing problem too.
Yikes! 
June 30, 2008 at 10:46 pm
my classic was after a trip to the lake. some boys were showing their rock-throwing acumen by attempting to throw rocks as close to us as possible without actually hitting anyone. of course, i got bopped on the head. when my mom took me to the dr. a few days later, he asked what happened. my reply? “I got hit in the rock by an eye.” he asked me again and i looked at him like he’d grown a third hand and repeated, “I got hit in the rock by an eye.” he turned to my mother and asked what happened. she looked at him like he needed to go back to med school and possibly repeat the third grade as well. “She got hit in the rock by an eye.”
“Oh,” he said. “Okay. It’s genetic, then.”
June 30, 2008 at 10:59 pm
Yes, when I am talking on the phone and reading something that makes me laugh or angry on BC.
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June 30, 2008 at 6:38 pm
I know I’ve said “yes” a few times when I’m sure my brain was thinking “no” … but he was cute so it’s all good.