The Mayhem Sidebar

The Mayhem Sidebar

Blog readers and want to add a disclaimer here, so that you can go on with your day without being involved with this, if you are so inclined.  Have only a half hour or so on a Friday morning before I launch myself into the day and come out on the otherside, more than likely without you, and it takes so long to find time in this friendly summer weather to get back inside and on the computer to communicate the details.  Details of a day and start it out wanting to include you.  Friendly orientation, and yet, it might be that the very title of this blog is biased and makes you think:  “…I have better things to do.”  Sidebar and Mayhem and wonder where that really fits into our day.

Sidebar and am not sure if this is a legal term used in court and we all understand what that means, or if its about the window that shows up when I hit the history section and it says:  “…. History sidebar.”  So not sure if I am aiming for a casual connection when the sidebar word comes up, or something more informative and official and authoritative when the judge says to the lawyers in his courtroom, “…sidebar.”    Am aware that the next word mentioned:  Mayhem is well centered in our thoughts as an alternative for talking or doing or being involved with chaos and things we do not really want to think about.

Is a set of ads on TV  last month and before about insurance and The Mayhem Monster.  After the first view of this ad, its as if you watch and endure what is obviously known and is known to be appearing on screen next.  Mayhem and it makes one think, “…. I have better things to do.  Click away.  Signal your intention to have a different kind of day, not really connected with The Mayhem Sidebar.

All of this comes up because I am a wee bit short on time and yet, I have a half hour to kill or manage and that isn’t enough time for me to do my homework or concentrate and focus my attention on the theme:  The Mayhem Sidebar.  It is as if I have places to go and things to do, and I am inviting you to come along, if you have nothing better going on in the moment.  Words on a screen and its free, and you haven’t really gotten into the details or intricate part of your day or morning, and so you might be persuaded to go along, after all its just a blog excursion and you don’t really know this blogger or where all this is going.  But he did spell it out, put up disclaimers and a simple warning.  Now we join in and keep reading.  Out the door and into the stream of traffic that constitutes the ebb and flow of a busy schedule. 

 

Not far down that road, when accidental interference happens.  Jammed up or in a traffic jam, and suddenly the Mayhem Advertisement seems to have a place in the conversation.  Unexpected and that’s where we are now.  The Mayhem Sidebar and its up to the Judge or the computer program to inform us, what is proper under the circumstances and situation.

 

Out and about and anything can happen.  Tranquility and Peace.  Chaos and Mayhem.  Or if we are fortunate, something else.  And that’s about all the time I have to contemplate the nature of what might come next.  Am a bit disturbed by the congestion of a city street, when indeed I have somewhere to go and a time limit.  Anything that slows me down is not really welcomed.  And certainly I would not welcome a traffic incident or something that might injure others.  On my own, and in present company, and just something to do while waiting for the real me to show up, and the real part of my day to actually happen.

 

The Mayhem Sidebar is here in my blog and thoughts because I was reading political statements offered by the candidates of the election in the United States come November 2016.  On top of that I just sat through a previous night of watching Fake NFL Football.  Turns out we are way too early for the real thing.  Most of what I am involved in is a sophisticated setup to get my attention and involvement.  Soon all of this will turn serious, but not really. 

They want me to adopt the position that my current moment is the most serious thing in life and in this day, and that Mayhem and Fear and Uncertainty should be foremost on my mind.  Of course that is one look at the implication of being a bill of goods under the category:  The Mayhem Sidebar.  Because I am running out of time and the bus is calling my name.  Be at the bus stop or miss out and walk an extra mile, causing a bit of fuss and possible intersection with a collision of interests, not solely your own.

So now is the time.  I will stop.  Leave you hanging with the load of unanswered questions, or perhaps a general inquiry that begins with this.   “What does this have to do with me?”  And that is what is first on my mind, when the Judge or computer says, “Come Here.  Sidebar.  I will explain what this is all about.”   But then I step forward.  Get involved.  And later I ask myself:  “Why am I dissatisfied.”