# That Elusive Post You Keep Wanting to Make **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 1, 2020, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-elusive-post-you-keep-wanting-to-make/913903 "2020-07-01T05:21:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-elusive-post-you-keep-wanting-to-make/913903/1 "2020-07-01T05:21:07Z")
You know what I mean, right? You’re out in your car or on foot or in bed, anywhere but ensconced in front of your computer, and you’re thinking, for, like the seventh time, “Oh yeah, I should totally post about that to the Straight Dope”. And you keep forgetting, that would be Type A forgetting where you just don’t think about making the post that you’ve been thinking of when you weren’t at the computer. But then there’s the more frustrating Type B forgetting, where your’e finally remembering that there’s this post that you want to make to the Dope and yeah you’re actually at the computer. And…um what was it, that post, umm… _smackface_ ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-elusive-post-you-keep-wanting-to-make/913903/2 "2020-07-01T15:06:44Z")
Happens to me all the time. Three that happen most often are “commercials I hate” ,“misheard lyrics”, and “things you discover in a creative work after seeing it for the millionth time”. I also think of new thread topics that seem great at the time and then when I remember them, I can’t quite recall what I wanted to say that seemed so interesting. 🤦‍♀️ ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-elusive-post-you-keep-wanting-to-make/913903/3 "2020-07-01T15:13:15Z")
And then there is 'I really need to get around to responding in that thread. I can see where this person got that misconception. I think. But I need to find one or two good cites to go with it. Last time I had this discussion I used that cite but the link is broken now. I’ll get back to it later . . . write the thing in my head six times over the next week while doing something else . . . come back and realize what I wrote in my head doesn’t address x . . . go on a netwalk looking for the right cite, find a good one too late at night to compose anything . . . realize it’s been two weeks since anybody posted to the thread and do I really want to get back into it? – whoops now it’s more like six weeks – or maybe a year and a half. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2020, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-elusive-post-you-keep-wanting-to-make/913903/4 "2020-07-02T02:03:54Z")
Since I’m so full of anecdotes and bursting with TMI about crap that happens to me, I can’t say I have this problem exactly. I do think of things while otherwise occupied. I often revisit them several times before I’m actually online and it’s in my head, at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2020, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-elusive-post-you-keep-wanting-to-make/913903/5 "2020-07-02T23:33:52Z")
Finally [remembered](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reason-behind-the-post-office-blue-box-orifice-change/914113) what I kept intending to post about! ---
**Author:** ![SurrenderDorothy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/surrenderdorothy/32/1221_2.png) [@SurrenderDorothy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SurrenderDorothy)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-elusive-post-you-keep-wanting-to-make/913903/6 "2020-07-03T00:21:02Z")
For me it’s more… I have something I want to say or ask, but then it just doesn’t come off right or all I can think of is all the ways someone is going to take it wrong. It sounds too stupid or whiny or passive-aggressive or arrogant or I find that the anecdote needs too much background before it makes sense and it ends up being long and rambling and losing the point. So it’s not so much a lot of forgotten replies or threads as a lot of aborted ones. I even listed three of them here and then deleted them 😐. They don’t really come off any better in brief summary than they do in full post form. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-elusive-post-you-keep-wanting-to-make/913903/7 "2020-07-03T00:32:25Z")
Y’all should be down on your knees thanking Allah, Bhudda, AhuruMazda… and leeettle naked baby Jeebie… that I _don’t_ post all that stuff that I’m just SURE you’d _LOVE_ to hear about. You’d be bored to death, and the mods would immediately start rationing the number of consonants that a poster can use each day.