ME: (to MB, while perusing a takeout menu of a new place) Oooh! You should see this! They have all these hummus-based creams on their sandwiches — cranberry, mustard, cucumber …………….. I’m trying to figure out the Holy Roman Empire.
What?? No segue. None. Just … one minute it’s hummus; 5 seconds later, it’s Charlemagne and I expect everyone to know what I’m talking about, dammit!
Yeah, I do that- my kids and their friends refer to me as “Random Mom”.
I would prefer to think this means our brains work really, really fast.
I fear it’s more a case of “Ooooh- shiny!”, though.
I like to refer to my disorder in the Latin non sequitur. Makes me sound all bookish and such. [blink] But who am I kidding? It’s a completely “OOOH! Shiny!” version of Tourette’s. Like I have to say it or it evaporates and I’ll never get it back again. And yes, it IS that important that everyone know what I saw at the supermarket this morning.