Your "Little Voice"

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How many of you have a "little voice" that nags at you to do stuff?
I have been "pulled up short" by my mother's voice on numerous occasions and ended up doing a "good deed for the day".

To start with, the last 7 days of my existence has been of the nature that I was beginning to believe that whereever I was standing, the "angels" were pissing or taking a dump.

Last Friday: My wife has rented a large box truck to take some of our extraneous stuff to storage.
So, my sons and I have a long morning of loading and balancing the load. Off to the storage unit we go.
The turn in is an oblique, and as I make it I hear some weird noise. Checking the right rear-view there is now a Dodge ram that has been relieved of half of it's front bumper, by me. Crap!!
The dude was cool about it. But I still got a $91 dollar ticket (non-moving violation).
Saturday: I have to enlist the aid of my sons to move the remaining furniture in the living room toward the center of the room because the painters are coming to paint the LR, and both the up and downstairs hallways.
Sunday: I have to enlist the help of sons to move the furniture out of my bedroom and the "smaller" stuff to the center of the room so I can paint it, with the aid of my 13 year-old. (After 4 years in the Navy, you wouldn't begin to believe how much I abhor painting).
Monday and Tuesday: We get slammed at work, and I'm already doing the Nurse, secretary, and CNA role. I was an hour late getting out both days.
Yesterday: The prison was a madhouse. It's usually calm and quiet, but it's like the good weather has brought out all the sick, and sanity challenged inmates. And all of them are hanging out in my infirmary.

Today: Mandatory Competencies at the hospital. So on my day off I have to drive 35 miles to do inservices. And since I'm there, I need some blood work done so I'm off to the lab to encounter the needle.

So, here's where the good stuff starts to happen. Sam, one of the lab stalwarts offers to bring me in some Kona coffee 👍 I love Kona coffee!
The girl that draws my blood, is also a friend, and happens to be real cute. On top of that she barely hurts me with the needle. 👍

Almost home I pass a Dodge minivan in the breakdown lane, and as I'm driving by, my mother's voice "pulls me up short" and I end up turning around.
This Mini-van has a badly blown out tire, which I offer to change.
Turns out she is on her way to Fort Leavenworth, from Peculiar, MO. (About 90 minutes away) She has her elderly mother, who is oxygen dependent with her. They are on their way to pick up meds at the fort. She had called someone to come help, but they would have had to wait for about 2 hrs...
So the car is back on the ground. I have directed her to the nearest Wal-Mart to get a new tire, and have her cars fluids checked (caught a whiff of "overworked" antifreeze).
She argues, and I finally allow her to stuff some money in my now dirty paw. Turns out it's $20.👍 And I feel a bit heroic.

Somebody please tell me that this good deed will lift the "cloud" that has been dogging me for the last week.
Also, does anyone else get "directed" by their "little voice"?
 
Sounds like you're improving your karma, there, my friend!

Mostly my "inner voice" tells me to quit Netscrape and get back to work...
 
Sorry to hear about the bad luck, Gil. But life is just a series of ups and downs, you gotta ride em out. Good for you, helping out that mother.

And as for the voices in my head, I try to ingore them most of the time. :lol:
 
My little voice is very convincing when he speaks up, he just has been speaking up a bit less lately...
 
Gil, I think things seem to be turning around for you. . . Karma will turn around and start giving you good things, just remember that everything comes around for us as a reaction to our deeds. You'll be fine : )

I won't even go into what the voices in my head are telling me to do. I over-think everything and it is a mess in my brain right now. . .
 
The voices in my head are telling me the cheifs will win the superbowl.
 
Yeah - I got one of those. He's usually right, too, little bugger - I've found that when I've ignored him I've come to ignore it later.
 
Originally posted by menglan
The voices in my head are telling me the cheifs will win the superbowl.
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That's not a little voice; it's called wishful thinking...
 
Originally posted by menglan
The voices in my head are telling me the cheifs will win the superbowl.
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Your little voice is delusional.
I'm in Kansas, and a Chiefs Fan.
But they play like their lives depend on the outcome of the game the first half of the season.
The second half of the season, they play like they don't wanna get hurt before they go on vacation.:irked:
 
My voices tell me to start fires and shoot people :trouble:

I do have one that tells me right but I ignore it most of the time when I want to have some fun.
 
The voices in my head are telling me to format these people's hard drives that call me up and piss me off. . . Where is that write zeros app I have? ? ?
 
When at work, my voice says "Calm", over and over again, as people lie to me to cover themselves, or ask the same damn question over and over again.

At night, it castigates me for all the things I didn't do right that day/week/month.

I hate it, but it's made me a better person.
 
Oh I love those liars, they make the job so much easier. . . It is like they are afraid of being called stupid. . . But we know they have no clue how to work these machines and being cycnical is a plus to this type of field. . .
 
Originally posted by boombexus
My little voice is right all the time. I just wish I listened to it more often.

Chin up Gil. :)
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I'm trying!:D
I sometimes hear the speech Al Pacino says at the end of "Scent of a Woman" when he's talking about Chris O'Donnell's character at the school inquest. The part about doing the right thing being to "damn hard".
I do the right thing. But it is damned hard sometimes.
I often feel the light at the end of the tunnel, is the train.
 
no! the light at the end of the tunnel is me in my car running from the train. you better jump.:lol:
 
my voice once told me to break something just for the hell of it...another voice told me to be lazy and not get around to it. That's happened multiple times - is this a good thing or a bad thing?
 
My voice constantly tells me what a loser i am and that nothing good will ever happen to me. I'm not joking either.

Probably why nothing good has happened for years now. :(
 

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