do you have to say your thoughts out loud for them to mean anything paul asked jill on his first coffee break at work it was in the city and his mother told him she would not drive him so he'd had to take the bus number 3 he thought it was he could not quite remember jill said sorry what paul realized that she had not really noticed him there in the break room as he was hunched behind the refrigerator a little and she was busy pouring coffee and exactly two tablespoons of both milk and sugar into her mug before she put the coffee in he decided to repeat the question how do you think he asked like everyone else i guess she said i have a thought and if it is important i write it down do you have to say them out loud for them to make sense are you asking if i talk to myself a pause i guess so he said looking down he had a feeling this was a bad thing sometimes she said and walked out of the break room she did not understand the importance of his question she popped her head back in a moment later and his heart leaped in his chest how's your first day going so far she asked can you understand everything okay yes he said you were right it is pretty basic good she said paul yes do you have to say all of your thoughts out loud to remember them he shook his head only all of the time paul thought to himself but did not speak