Much as I love inflation, and imagining myself and other woman being like balloons, it can be quite a distraction at times. What prompts this little ramble is an occurence the other day, when I was being all cultural and highbrow and watching the Cardiff Singer of the World competition on television. One of the heats of the contest featured a lovely Welsh soprano, who gave a wonderful performance...but I couldn't entirely concentrate on her beautiful singing because she was a very big young woman, and she looked like she'd squeezed herself into her pretty competition dress, and then pumped herself up until she was really bulging out of it. Her heaving bosom was a wonder to behold, and as she kept taking deep breaths I lost myself in imagining her suddenly going off bang like an overinflated balloon. It was a nice imagining, but it did mean that I actually missed quite of lot of her singing as my mind wandered. Maybe the judges had a similar problem, as, sadly, she didn't make it through to the final...but I think they might be a little bit more professional than me..and probably not inclined to imagine people as balloons!
Anyway, just wondered if anyone else here ever gets frustrated with themselves getting distracted in that way!
I have a similar problem if the singer Adele appears on tv, and, much as I enjoyed what I saw of Mad Men, when Christina Hendricks appeared in a scene as Joan, in one of those wonderfully form-fitting dresses, I would miss what was going on and go into a daydream about her having a mishap with a pin (or a mishap with a foot pump...and then a pin).
Gah, my silly old brain!
Oh, in case anyone is curious as to who I was referring to in the first paragraph, the singer is called Celine Forrest. You can watch a clip of her performance here (no idea if there are any problems with watching the clip if you are outside the UK, apologies if so!) :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02v0fkw
I can relate to this. Pregnant women, pot bellies, jokes involving blowing up or popping, pneumatic sounds, even something as simple as a vacuum, and balloons being blown up. Whether on TV or in real life, I do get distracted and sometimes even a little embarrassed in case someone catches on.
The most recent awkward situation was when I was at an event in my city and there were these enormous balloons, funnily enough about the same size as a blueberry person. I kept thinking "Imagine if I blew up to that size" and started picturing it in my head. I stopped though because I didn't want anybody to catch on and my superstitious fear of actually blowing up in case my wishes were granted there and then. I know that's unlikely to happen but the obsession can get that bad sometimes when you think you're just about to inflate in front of everyone.
Faucets, hoses and pumps too if I'm thinking a particular way, as if they beckon me to them. A few times I've been tempted to lock my lips around a pipe or something sticking out of a wall but I've never done anything like that out in public. Well, not yet anyway but if I were to do something like that, I'd be sure I'm alone. Random words too: pregnancy, belly, balloon, inflate, inflation, pump, pump up, blow up, burst, whatever. It really does takeover your life sometimes.