TMW you're trying to transition out of past perfect into past, and you keep falling into general tense. Pffft! I meant to drop into regular past, like this: A week ago he had broken into the teachers office to try to change his test score. It was easier than he thought to jimmy the lock, and once in, he found the tests in a folder in the top desk drawer... I usually use some kind of transition, and was planning it to be 'once in', but in this case I found myself first writing 'It was easier than he thought to jimmy the lock,' and that serves as a nice transition. I moved out of subject/verb construction (he did this, he did that), and restructured the sentence to begin with 'It was easier'. I'm not sure why, but something like this helps to ease the transition—just a slight interruption of standard sentence form.
That moment when you take your phone out of your pocket and it slips right out of your hand. It falls face down in the stone slabs and shatters, never to turn on again. I've never broken a phone in my life... and I've owned a lot of phones. Both flip phones and smart phones. It was only an outdated Pixel 3a XL but it was working beforehand, so this kinda sucks. Also, all my pictures are in there, and I need to get them out. A new screen costs, I kid you not, as much as the device itself because its so old now. I hate smart phones. They cost an arm and a leg when you buy them. Then two years pass and they are worth nothing. It feels like throwing money in the trash. The options are... skip the £100 screen and put that towards a new device instead. Or, fit the subpar aftermarket screen into a 3 year old device that won't keep up for much longer. Or... buy a flip phone and go back to those because you hate smart phones. You might say that's nuts, but jokes on you, I am nuts!
Only if you care about proper grammar, which I mostly don’t. I usually try to edit out anterior actions. Contemporary, perhaps? If I must use past perfect, I do it like this. One time to signify the shift and then let the context provide the clarity.
TMW: You know you've watched too much Caytlin Doughty's 'Ask A Mortician' videos when you watch a video about George Washington's tomb and start analyzing the climate of Mount Vernon and how he's buried to guess what his body might look like today if the tomb were opened. Ah, morbid curiosity. You'll never cease to amaze and weird me out.
That moment when you gate off part of your yard for your dogs to have... But then some animal has its babies RIGHT BESIDE THE DOOR THE DOGS COME IN AND OUT OF..... Like, the whole rest of the yard is free! Why here!?!? Either the mama is stupid, or is looking for my dogs to protect her babies. Ugh.... No idea what to do with them. Obviously i cant let my dogs out into their own yard... And its the only door to the back yard, too
TMW you get onto the train to go home after work and find yourself surrounded by twenty- and thirty-something women in elaborate, sparkly outfits and you remember that, oh yeah, Taylor Swift is in town this weekend. Not that I'm complaining, mind you...
TME when you get out the shower and admire your physique in the mirror and conclude that you might be on the wrong side of 50 but you still have a body like a martial art icon... okay so it's Kung Fu Panda...
Riffing off that thought: TMW you tour all 6 of your restaurants on a glorious 85 degree day and are reminded that God made women in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and while I love em all, not a one of them has anything on my wife!
When you look at the display for the audio book you have been about ready to turn off all day. And realize there are still seven hours left.
TMW you are trying to decide between primitive camping and a motel, and realize you are older than your dad was when you told him of course a motel at his age, and you wonder if he was in better shape than you thought, or you are in worse shape than you think, and begin to compare a cot and sleeping bag and outside latrine with a nice double bed and hot shower, and try to decide if it wouldn't maybe be enough to be outside all day without sleeping outside too and then you remind yourself of the stars and night breezes and you decide, F--- it, I can afford either option so I'll make up my mind when the time comes, and you have a sneaking suspicion what the answer will be.
the moose thing comes from when i was much younger an a girl bought me a soft moose because i was in her words a 'big horny animal'...i used to have a picture of the actual moose concerned in my avatar, but he looks pretty much like the one that's there now. i haven't seen the girl concerned in about 20 years but i still have the moose...these days he sits on my bedside table and i put my glasses on him at night for safe keeping
I have observed large ungulate males in rut. I ain't gonna try to tell 'em nothin' 'cause they ain't gonna listen. I'm gonna look for the quickest way out of the area.
When I visited Cape Breton Island, the nice Scots-Canadian couple at the B&B told me if I ever encountered a moose blocking the road, I was to sit tight and quiet and wait for him to wander off of his own accord. I was not to honk my horn, or drive at him, or offend him in any way, unless I wanted an adventure I hadn't had in mind when I left the Midwest.
I read this as "Cape Britton Ireland" which tripply confused me with the addition of "Scots-Canadian" I was thinking, woah, theres a lot going on there!
TMW you’re sitting home on a quiet Sunday evening and you get a text from a friend asking “Hey, you up for an adventure?” Hell yes, I am!
dont forget to pop back and and give a detailed account of said adventure so i can live vicariously through you
Or Labyrinth. Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the Burger King beyond the Amazon warehouse...
That moment when I thought I was doing the right thing from my point of view but not the universal pow if there is a universal pow.
