“Please deliver 15 seconds of attention span…”

Sometime in the last couple years, somehow, someway, the word “terrorist” became a buzzword. It used to be easy to tell who was a terrorist, obviouslythey have an AK-47, and obviously they try and blow stuff up. But now, the word can be so confusing!

Confusing how? Well, for one, the U.S. has been calling Colombian drug-dealers “Narcoterrorists”… huh? For what reason was “drug cartel overlord” not a sufficient term? If they are terrorists because they widely distribute narcotics, then doesn’t that open the door for all sorts of other terrorist terms? I sure think so.

Combine this with Emmuh calling people who can’t respect their fellow man terrorists, I’m fairly sure you can say whatever you want using the word terrorist now.

So that brings me to my point… imagine two people are having a discussion, let’s say… my wife and I. She’s telling me about something that happened on the way home from work, some story about, I dunno, how someone cut her off while she was driving. She mentions that it was in front of a QuikTrip gas station. And starts another sentence, continuing the stor…

- and I suddenly remember some story about QuikTrip, and interrupt her. I go off about how QuikTrip’s ATM’s never will read my card, blah blah blah. At this moment, I have hijacked Heather’s story. She was mid-story, and I took over the flow of conversation for my own ends, forcefully. I may let her finish up after I tell my part, but for all real purposes, it’s mine for now.

And wait asecond… what do terrorists do? Hijack stuff! (Well, some of the time, sometimes they just grow plants, harvest them, process them, and ship them overseas… that makes them narcoterrorists though, as previously discussed.) Anyway, I propose the following term for what happened above… I became a conversation terrorist for a moment, or a convo-terrorist for short.

Everyone does it. Some people do it alot alot less than others, and others do it alot alot more than others. I want to try and do it less, but that’s a process. So, anyway, sorry if I hijack your conversation. I didn’t mean to be a terrorist, it just happens. =/

Sledgehammer-operated Keyboard – If you don’t think this is neato, you won’t think anything is. No two ways around it.