Does This Happen To Anyone Else?

I'm padding around in my bare feet this morning, half asleep, and the Temptations 'I Can't Get Next To You' is running through my head.  Somewhere in the middle of the song I get stuck, and the CD player in my head (actually, it's a turntable) plays the spot over and over and over, like when you have something stuck between two molars and you keep running your tongue over it.  (I'd say, 'like a record skipping', but who'd know what THAT meant?) 

Finally I realize there's a piano part missing.  Right after they do the 'aaahhhhhh-YAH!', and the drums play two bars alone, there's a two-bar piano riff that's missing from the playback in my head.  Thirty seconds after that it hits me--last Saturday night, when we did that song at the restaurant, I never played the stupid piano part.  THAT'S why Molly and I kept looking at each other, wondering what was missing from that little spot. 

So let's see...I finally got around to remembering that part 4 days and 11 hours later.  This says two things about me, I think:

1. I'm not quite as laser-sharp as I used to be, and
2. (something I've known for a long time) My brain wanders off down the path, lah-dee-dah, when I could be doing something useful with it. 

This reminds me of the time I played with a gospel choir, and was so completely immersed in learning the genre that I woke up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and stopped dead in the doorway of the bedroom.  I stopped because I couldn't think what chord I needed to get to the bathroom.  I was thinking, "If I play a 7#5#9, I'll end up over by the basement stairs.  But if I flat the 5, I'll be stuck at the sink."  I stood there for probably a whole minute until I woke up enough to realized I didn't need any chords to get me to the bathroom. 

You should ride around in the car with me some time and watch me miss turn after turn because I can't think of the name of my third grade teacher, or I'm having an imaginary conversation with someone.

Molly says this makes me a freak. 

Comments

[beth]

Not at all.

Then again, maybe so.

And, if so, then I say 'freaks unite'. I do the same sort of weird stuff.

Can't think of any examples right now, because I'm old and tend to forget things. LIke most of my life, I think.

But I'm right there with you. Had almost exactly the same experiences...

[Molly]

Riding in the car with you certainly is an experience.