When I was a kid, walking home from school, my overactive imagination would get so bored with the endless journey (it was probably no more than 8 minutes long), that I would devise mind games to prevent me from falling asleep right there on the neighbor's sidewalk. I'm sure you're familiar with them: "If I beat this car to the corner, mom will have baked cookies when I get home!" "If that woman doesn't close the door before I pass her house, I'll get to play baseball at my friend's house!" "If I don't make it to the neighbor's driveway by the time I count to a hundred, that barking dog will tear my face off!" Ah, good times. These mind games would continue periodically as I grew older, eventually evolving (or devolving) into pathetic bar room pep-talks: "if this girl makes eye-contact, that means she wants me." As I became an adult, those type of mind games disappeared. I became more wise to reality and ho...
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