When a woman recognizes she's obsessing and analyzing about a new guy too much, she goes on other dates to occupy her mind.
Jane told me she can't stop thinking about that bearded lumberjack, with the house on the lake she had coffee with. She's rereading texts, googling his name, stalking on Facebook, you name it! Realizing she's entering psycho mode, she's been right-swiping on Tinder day and night to line up Distraction Dick to keep herself sane.
Having your attention occupied by setting other than the task at hand.
You forget what you were doing?
No I starting thinking about who that whore fucked a retard and instead on me and that thought distracted me from the task I was preforming. The thought ended with me deciding that I'm going to rape your personal whore and kill you when she srceams for your help. In front of her. And then I rape her in a pool of your blood. And then I when I finished fantasising about both of your deaths; I continued what I was doing.
Yeah sorry I got distracted. I'll get caught up tonight at work.
Iam "Yeah we've been distracted lately. 🤷 ♂️ not enough time in the day, ya know?"
Getting started on a project, only to be distracted by another 1 or more projects thus delaying the original project
He was working on his car & couldnt find a wrench, his extra sensory distraction caused him 2 reorganize his whole tool box
An unpleasant thought you might get when you are reminded of something you might have to do do later on that is not you really want to do.
In the middle of the meeting John got an unpleasant distraction of when last week at lunch break he had to sit in the very back seat of his employee's cx-9 on the way to the restaurant and wished he would not have to do it again today.
Distraction-Tactics
A plan, or series of actions to redirect someone’s attention.
“The government used distractics about aliens, to change the conversation”