Good Morning! It’s a good day for me! Today is my Friday as the military gives us the option to take the day before a holiday off as a “training holiday”. Of course I took it and don’t have return to work until Tuesday!

On this Thoughtful Thursday I don’t have anything heavy to talk about, just a few random hypothetical questions.

1#. Don’t you hate to see (typically) a woman walking outside around the track talking on her cell phone! I am a woman but that drives me nuts! Are they really there for the workout or is it just a show to say they were at the track?

2#. This is a two part question. Part #1. Should one person correct another person if they are mispronouncing a word? Which is more humiliating, having one person tell you subtly that you are pronouncing a word wrong or finding out you having been pronouncing it wrong and nobody told you thus lots and lots of people heard you and possibly made fun of you? Part #2. Why do people say conversate!!! Seriously, it might have been Ebonically cute at one point but how much harder is it to say converse? Converse actually has one less syllable than conversate and conversate is sooooooo not a word! And… (heavy sigh) (this ones goes to deep places in me I can’t even described) why do people say scary instead of scared!!! Awwwww….! Let me give you an example. “I don’t like haunted houses, I’m too scary.” OMG! Or “she won’t go with us, she is too scary.” Lord have mercy! The correct word is scared! Here is my question on both these words; do people think it is cute to say these mispronunciations? I will give you this; those words are at home and familiar with certain groups of people and I am going to leave that there but still… how intelligent is it to be in a suit and tie talking to educated people saying conversate? Is that cool or is that plain ignorant? And trust and believe, people hear you and take mental note of the fact that you can’t speak appropriately! They may never ever say anything, but they hear it! I heard, in passing, a hip hop song recently and it had the word conversate in it. Dragging your nails across a chalkboard would have had the same affect on me!

3#. Ok, this may be a whole other post but let me ask anyway. Why do (typically) men, when given the choice to turn the corner into the lane they will need to be in to turn within a block or so, choose to turn in the opposite lane and then have to strategically cross oncoming traffic to get into the necessary lane to turn? And this occurs over and over and over! Same actions, same outcome! And even more simply, while on the highway, why not move into the lane of your upcoming exit now, a mile ahead of time when there is no traffic, versus waiting until you are 500 feet from the exit with endless traffic and no way to get over, thus causing a bottleneck and potentially dangerous maneuvering event!

#4. Why do individuals at a place of business call another place of business, knowing it is a place of business and say, “someone just called me from this number and I am calling back to see who it was.” Seriously? And let me add one more thing to that, when you tell them many people use this “business” line and I can’t pinpoint who it was that called you they say, “ok. I will check my messages. I haven’t checked my messages yet.” I just sit there in awe of that whole experience and want to explain to them how this stupid it was!

Me personally, I CANNOT stand it when someone calls me and says, “someone just called me from this number.” I just want to sit there quietly on the phone and see what they will say next or how they will squirm out of what is really an awkward situation but to be honest, I don’t think it is awkward for them. Check this out, I know people who will pick a day, any day and go through their call ID and call every number that they don’t recognize! And there are repeat offenders! (and I’ll be honest, it is usually family, lol) When I get these calls, when responding I have to steady my voice and take out the aggravation I feel and cheerfully say for the 19th time, this is Kathy, what can I do for you! )

I try never to call back numbers I don’t recognize. If I do, there has to be a good reason! My theory is, if it was that important, they will leave a message and ask me to call them back.

#5. Why do people like me feel uncomfortable with only four questions and have to come up with one more question to even it out? I function best in groupings, even if only in my mind. So question #5 is, is do I have a form of OCD?

These are just some of the things that have been on my mind lately. Things that make me go hmmmm….. Maybe you can help me and give me some answers to my random questions on this Thoughtful Thursday! We’ll talk soon! Holla back!