Occasionally some mundane situation sparks wild imaginings. For instance, a few weeks ago, as I was walking through the parking deck of my office building, I heard a loud bang. At the other end of the parking deck was a van and a man who had just slammed the rear door.
There was nothing sinister about the scene, the van, or the man, but my imaginative mind pretty quickly built up an action/thriller scenario. For the fun of imagining, I mulled the idea in my brain for the remainder of my walk through the parking deck. It’s fun to play “what if.”
I’ve played this kind of mental exercise a lot over the years. I think it’s a part of having a very imaginative mind. But usually, the scenario I create based off some random, mundane occurrence gets no more attention than the idle time I have to give it when it happens.
This time, though, I thought I’d write it down to see how it ends up reading as text rather than just as a thought in my head. And this time was also different in that the location of the imagining was handy for going back and taking pictures of the locations and sights. So, I wrote it all down and took photographs.
After writing it, I considered whether to post it to this site. Everything else I post here are anecdotes from my real life, so I wasn’t sure how something completely fictional would go over. Would some take it as true? Would some take it as an attempt to fraud?
I decided I did want to post it here, but I couldn’t do it without some disclaimer or warning. But prefacing it with such would kind of ruin the feel. Then I rewrote it as present tense rather than my normal past tense. I felt this would make it obvious enough to not seem fraudulent while skipping a preface.
I don’t know. It was a fun experiment, but it definitely doesn’t fit with the rest of my posts here.
Bullgrit
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