Overthinkers Anonymous Gifts

"I just get a little tense before everything."

"Bark or stare? Always a tough decision. Bark? Maybe stare? Whimper? Maybe? Meanwhile, stare."

They hated me.

"Good" "Bad" "Work on it" "Keep working - maybe it's not as bad as you think it is" "Put it to a committee" "Give up" "Make it worse" "Make it better" "Still a bad idea" "Overthink it" "Throw yourself into a pit of wild badgers" "Throw it away" "Call it done" "Sigh."

"It's days like this that make me long for days like this."

"Try thinking about something else."

Four Types of Test-Takers...

"The overthinker"

No Immediate Danger

"Ideas that jump from noggin when head not yet screwed on."

"Isn't it an amazing co-incidence that this is an orange, and it IS ORANGE?"

That party went well.

"Well, if you're still awake when the time changes, you'll lose an hour of overthinking everything, too."

Technique #54 airlines are adopting for handling excessive carry on luggage.

A Hypochondriac's Worst Nightmare

"Perhaps there is such a thing as being too well-informed."

"This may be Malcolm Gladwell talking, but we were married on the wrong day!"

Thinking and thinking backwards.

"I think he said he wants to buy 'just the one'. You'd better fetch the manager"

"I made a list of all my symptoms. Lost the list. Can't remember any of my symptoms now."

You have reached the end of your brain...

"The chairman said he wanted to see you when you got out of hospital."

'You look like you have a lot on your mind, Jim!'

Concern Chart

'I'm worried about not being worried...'

"My problem is I obsess over whether I worry enough."

"You're overthinking this."

"Thanks a bunch. I'll just run these by our committee and pass them along."

'Let's hold off making a decision until we have even more information we don't really need.'

Flowchart of an idea.

Sometimes a Good Excuse to Get off the Telephone is Hard to Find

"I'm not sure she really liked our gift. She used just two exclamation points after 'Thanks'."

'Dinner for two, table for seven.'

"No, I don't want a glass of water, but I'm worried that I might want one."