All aboard my random train of thought.

So I’m driving behind this truck whose bed is full of furniture. It all seems pretty secure until the wind manages to get up under a pink, Disney princess chair. Watching it surf, I ease off the gas and put some pretty good distance between us. Finally, it tired of surfing and tried to break free. But it didn’t. It fell out of the truck but was still being held on.

That’s when I noticed that it was secured with a type of net rather than the usual bungee cords. And I realized what a great idea that was. A bungee cord net. So simple. Anyway, the pink chair will more than likely still fall off but my exit came up so I bid farewell to Cinderella and the gang.

So anyway then I’m thinking about nets and how on movies and TV shows when people have a net dropped on them, they are instantly incapacitated. Sometimes they throw in a little “bug on its back” type of flailing but usually they’re down for the count. I’ve always wondered if it really is so hard to mobilize once a net has been dropped. What about the net keeps your legs from moving?

Then the voice in my head that keeps me humble pops up.

“You got tripped up in the vacuum cleaner cord yesterday and you were even holding the cord. Furthermore [my condescending internal voice is very formal, you know], need I remind you that you got tangled up in a shirt you were trying to take off to the point where your arms were flailing above your head and you had to ask Paige to help you get out of it?”