Those Damned Notes

As I readied to do some laundry, I checked the pockets of my jeans and found a wad of notes I’d forgotten that I’d written a few days back while getting my tires rotated. Usually, I carry a notebook of some sort wherever I go so that I might write as time provides.

Having two-hours in the waiting area of a local tire shop counts as an ‘as time provides’ moment. However, since my visit was not part of my planned day, I didn’t have my notebook with me.

Since the urge to jot-down some thoughts felt so effing urgent, I decided to return to one of my old tricks. I kyped a few sheets of paper towels from the nearby restroom and got to writing.

This has been a practice of mine since I was a kid, having first stolen a roll of toilet paper from a roadside rest area while on a trip and later doing the same while in the service. I have also been sufficiently poor enough to have scrounged in garbage bins for writing material.

By the time my tires were completely rotated, I had nine-and-a-half sheets filled with random thoughts and ideas. I’m providing only the first sheet as an example…
It’s been like this for nearly all my life. My brain races, sometimes more than others, and I feel the strong need to write everything down to ‘empty my head,’ and sadly, I’ve never known another person that goes through this sorta shit on an everyday basis.

As a kid, I first got the idea about taking notes from the ‘Little House on the Prairie’ series. This idea became reinforced while watching ‘The Waltons’ when it first aired in its 8 pm time slot on Thursdays.

Often times, thoughts are heading at me so fast that I screw my facts up. For instance, when writing about ‘another ME (Mandela Effect,)’ I later did some homework and realized that it was Dan Hartman who’d died March 22, 1994, the night I began at KRNO or how in my ‘western society’ notation, I use the word ‘learn’ instead of ‘live,’ in the second sentence.

But then again, I guess that’s why they’re called ‘notes.’ And now — it’s time to transfer what’s usable to my spiral notebook for later use.