What goes on inside my head when people are talking to me
October 24, 2007 • 8:00 am
Sometimes my mind wanders off to places where I know not how it got there. This frequently happens during, for example, my driving lessons.
The latest instance of this was when we were approaching a roundabout and my instructor was telling me about gears and braking and so forth. My eyes happened upon an advertisement featuring someone who looked like Gwen Stefani. Suddenly, all external input was completely blocked out, while inside my head this happy refrain was being repeated, over and over:
Gwen Stefani, she’s so fine,
She’s so fine, she lives down a mine.
She eats coal;
She owns a little foal.
She’s so fine, she lives down a mine.
She eats coal;
She owns a little foal.
A foal is a baby horse!
Hey!
I spent the rest of the day pondering whether that last line should read ‘hey’ or ‘hay’.
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