racing and pacing and plotting the course/fighting and biting and riding on (her) horse
I’ve been doing a fair bit of what they like to call “community engagement” recently. The actual community engagement part has been ace fun. Chatting to people about what is happening in their town or area and finding out more about it is really interesting.
What I have had to watch, however, is my personality after emerging from a long car drive. When I have been driving for two hours, I have had a lot of time to think about what I might say to people in meetings. Here are some suggestions I came up with, but quickly discarded.
“Nostalgia…it’s the last refuge of the moron, isn’t it?”
“Wow – you make the Depression sound really interesting and fun!”
“Yes, but the President of the Celine Dion Appreciation Club sounds like a dick. Oh. Your brother? Really?”
“You know what they say about the country....”
Is it just me who goes a bit mental after a few hours in the car?
posted by gigglewick at
4:44 pm
3 Comments:
I go the other way when driving in the country. I get so happy and relaxed I become a completely ineffective communicator. I just sit in the corner, grinning and drooling for a while.
So it must just be you.
I really enjoy long drives in the car but I go a bit mental after about three minutes on a bus and I start playing air guitar to 4ever by the Veronicas which is particularly scary considering its not even on my ipod.
I should really stop telling people stuff about me.
*snort* But INC, that was the internet is all about - facilitating your (and everyone elses) need to overshare...
And yeah, it's the combined effect of monotony and isolation - you start talking to yourself out loud and then things go downhill fast...
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