How I Know I Don’t Have any Imagination

Pin on No Papel

I was listening to a Beatles album in my filthy debris-filled bedroom and it told me to “picture [myself] in a boat on a river with tangerine trees and marmalade skies” and the best I could do was to picture myself on a boat in a filthy debris-filled bedroom.

I was late for my date because I was talking to another girl at the Dairy Queen; when my girlfriend asked why I was late, the best story I could manage was that I’d been talking to another girl at the Tastee-Freeze.

Some toddlers have an overactive imagination. My parents had to poke my imagination with a stick for fear it had died.

To me, every problem is a nail and the only tool I have is a basketball.

They tell me to write about what I know; so, I wrote a short story about a guy trying to write a short story.

When I force myself to imagine subsequent moves in a chess game, I can never imagine back to the present. EVEN WITH THE BOARD IN FRONT OF ME.

I can’t solve algebraic word problems because, when I try to imagine when Sally is four times as old as Bill was when he was seven, I break out in red blotches and I throw up. A friend said that I should get my anxiety treated. She said, “Imagine how much better your life would be”. I told her I couldn’t…

When I try to imagine what my life will be like in a year, it’s always me still sitting there trying to imagine what my life will be like in a year.

A friend and I were sitting in a racket ball court and he asked me if I had any suggestions for what he should name his puppy; and the only name I could come up with was “Racket Ball Court”.

As a toddler, my imaginary friend just sat on the couch and didn’t say anything…

13 thoughts on “How I Know I Don’t Have any Imagination

  1. Hmm… maybe the “Pl” in “Plabe” was for “plagiarism, she just didn’t know it.
    That wasn’t the only time, either. For some reason I called my hands “Daddy” and “Tootie.” Susie then called hers “Mommy” and “Fruity.” We still laugh uncontrollably when we remember that.

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