Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for May 06, 2022

That’s happened to

…me too!

“Caution: Be sure brain is engaged before activating mouth.”

That’s such a great way to describe what has happened at some point to everyone.

Probably a good thing he didn’t finish that sentence.

Isn’t there usually some kind of alert, like “Warning: Disk Full!”

story of my

This is usually the result of thinking too far ahead in the conversation, or about something else altogether.

A somewhat more disturbing situation is when I find myself talking more-or-less by rote, but it’s the WRONG rote, leaving me sometimes unsure what I had just been saying. It’s sort of like an autocomplete error on a smartphone. Again, it happens when I am simply not paying attention to what I am saying. We’ve all done the same thing while driving, where we are in one sense aware of the road and can react to changes, but our mind is wandering somewhere else and we are driving on autopilot, only to find ourselves surprised at where we are.

I changed my mind and thought I hit draft. But it really was daft.

He could just …

And my spam filter caught it.

Bad updates or good weed will do that too.

I do this all the time. Why just the other d

Oh never mind

We see it every day in the political news and ads.

I thought this was going to be one of these situations:

“If a man says something and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?”

Society has been conditioned…..pitiful

Or, as they used to say out in the country: “Said giddyup to my mouth ’fore my brain was hitched up.”

It’s me, it’s…

Sounds more like the comments section than the content! ;-}

Happens to me more and more often.

Head over to the political cartoons section; especially the few actually created by a conservative. The responses embody that concept fully.

Been there, done

My brain sometimes hits “delete” before I finish my thought.

Perfect. Absolutely perfect.