oedipus' online complexes

not so long ago, i was trying to address a billing SNAFU with a credit card company, and the customer rep asked for some obscure information which resided in another file, whose name i could not quite remember, in another directory... as usual, i had about a dozen programs running at the time, and switching between them was giving JAWS a problem, so it took me a while to find the document i needed... apparently, during my search i had muttered to myself "where is that damn thing?!?!"

thinking that i had only thunk that thought, but apparently, having enunciated it, the customer rep suddenly said: "i will have to terminate this call if you continue to use profanity"

not having realized that i had muttered to myself outloud and been over-heard, i reflexively asked her: "what the hell did i say?"

of course, she hung up...