Screw with

I am just trying to confuse my own mind.

***** with a mind = try to confuse

I've never seen it used when the speaker was confusing himself. Only others.

It's a new one on me too, but MrM's reading seems to be the only way to parse it.

I suppose "confuse" is not absolut

Hi,

I am just ******** with my mind.

There's a sexual aspect to this use of '********', so be careful about the contexts in which you say it..



Clive

Clive, you're a marvel. That never dawned on me! You always manage to see the obvious when I don't. [Y]

(instead of)

- A.

Hi,

Yes, that's me! An authority on the obvious!

Let me suck up like this: Wow, one post collected all my best teachers.

I saw the line right at the beginning of the pilot of this drama called Gilmore Girls, where this young man was trying to flirt with this single mother while she was waiting for her daughter Glory at Luke's, the diner.

So the mother was not interesting in the flirt, after showing this attude to the young m

I suggest that the young woman actually said '...with your mind', bbsr. However, I haven't seen that episode.

Or possibly - possibly, because I never saw a single episode - if she's a mother, she's messing with herself by pretending/imagining he was interested in her.

Yes, Lorelai's like that.