On Reflexes

[edg]

Sometimes having reflexes - unthinking responses - are a bad thing.

For example, when you are running a bath so that you can relax and get some reading done, and you have a drink on the side of the tub along with the book that you want to read, and you've pulled the shower curtain out of the way, and you turn the water on and then, without

Comments

[oyving]

I get the same things, except that if I'm sleepy enough they will muddle the reflexes. I have a set of actions I need to do, but I do not always get them in the correct order or with the right items.

For instance, countless time I have been able to stop right before I put the milk carton into the bread box. Or one time when I had a carton of chocolate milk next to the computer, opened, and I reached out without thinking to shake it...

[fadethecat]

...oh dear.

Oh very dear.

[dj_flx]

At least it wasn't an e-book, right?