That THING!!

By dino_j_rock
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That THING!!
You know how everyone has that 'thing.' I'm not talking of
fingernail-biters or scratchy-dandruff-snow or serial nose-pickers, but
that 'thing' they say, that trait, that slice of personality that may
be annoying sometimes but defines them as THEM. What makes me - ME and
you - YOU. I have spent many a lesson, sitting quietly and listening
not to what the teacher says but what's underneath all that&;#8230;
the little bits, the pieces, the strange, random eccentricies and the
phrases and word pattern. When I find 'IT' in people it makes me so
happy. Obviously I have no life, because nobody else makes a little
song and dance because they've FINALLY worked out what their maths
teacher's phrase is:
"That's a real SNORTER of a question."
If you go looking for it, I gotta warn you some people are very boring.
Their 'thing' could be they say "like" and "D'ya know whatta mean,
like?" constantly and you'll end up pulling you hair out. And kids
haven't developed their 'thing' yet. They just repeat over and over the
word of the week:
"Decent. Yea man, that's decent. Cool, decent."
It's not 'decent' at all. They just think that 'decent' is the new
cooler word for cool. So as a general rule of thumb, the better the
person's grasp of language, the better their 'thing' or 'things.' Yea,
you can have more than one 'thing'. Some people have LOADS. They have a
little phrase 'thing', an intonation 'thing', a strange word speed
'thing' and more. It's so much fun looking their things. Some people
they&;#8230;
STOP
In the middle of a sentence and then
Carry-on-talking-really-fast. They just carry on with the next sentence
and then -
STOP.
Mad woman. Still rather funny. Because of course one of the great uses
of finding people's 'things' is that you can mimic them. I'm not good
at putting on fake voices but I can mimic people by finding their
things - by adopting their strange stoppy-starting sentences, the
speeding up and slowing down, their intonation, their phrases and their
words and Woo!! It's so much fun&;#8230;
Go on&;#8230; Go find someone's THING.
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