As an aside – isn’t that just another way to say I’m planning to digress from my original thought?

And what is an original thought. No such thing.

But we all have to start somewhere. We have a thought and we run with it, do we not? Sometimes that thought becomes something that others find interesting and then at other times our audience will begin to struggle to pay attention. If we’re in a social setting they will act restless, which is a sign to either shut up or change the subject – or get back on it.

Does this post have a subject?

As an aside, my mother’s dog died. Oh this was years and years ago. Maybe around 1988. She phoned me to tell me but I was at a party at the time, and didn’t have the time or the concentration to really pay attention to what she was saying. And so I hung up after saying that I was sorry, and I’d call her back the next day. Which I did. And then I visited her and consoled her over the loss of her dog.

Where was I?

Oh yes. We were talking about “asides.” At least I was. Are you still following me?

I thought not.

 

This post is part of SoCS: https://lindaghill.wordpress.com/2014/07/18/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-july-1914/