Overt Hinkers Anonymous Support Group

A funny thing happened to me on the way through the web.

 

Overt Hinkers Anonymous

It’s funny how that with so much information from the internet at out finger tips, we can still know very little. A lot of that has to do with the fact that we have so many answers we sometimes don’t know what the question is. Take for example this occurrence.

 

In a MySpace profile homepage you will find a box (usually in the center) labeled “Status and Mood”. Wanting to know my friends’ activities at all time I always briefly look up at this section and occasionally catch a glimpse of something interesting. Space is limited and sometimes words of an entire phrase are omitted, but most of the time you get the gist by looking at the sometimes animated “emoticon”. On this particular occasion one of my friend’s “Status and Mood” said, “is looking for a local chapter of Overt hinkers anonymous.” Since, I really cared about this particular friend I was really concerned as to what was bothering her.

 

So, I began to try to figure this out, I mean, what the hell is a "hinker" and why was it troubling her?

 

If they are overt, or not hidden, why haven't I seen one?

 

And, since obviously there’s a lot of them where she was, why did she want to find a group to cure her obsession with them?

 

First, I tried looking it up on the online dictionary, but all it would give me was; honker, hunker, hanker, hiker, thinker, dinker, hinder, hinter- but no hinker.

 

So, I search the web for "hinker" and I found that it is a Dutch and Northern German nickname for "someone with a limp". Since I wasn't sure if she spoke Dutch or Northern German (if she did she seemed to made sure she covered up her accent well), or if she knew anyone with a limp, I moved on to another possibility.

 

That's when I came across "Hinker.Net", a site "... dedicated to connecting people whose family name is Hinker. Or Hincker, as the two spellings have evolved over time."

 

Now I'm thinking, "Wow, this Hinker family must have pissed her off really bad to want to have a support group!"

 

No wonder she was so stressed! You would be too if you had an obsession over an entire clan, world wide no yet, and needed help!

But, that didn't make since either (mostly because if there was a large population of Hinkers they would kinda stick out among the "Mohammeds" and "Husseins" that lived around her neck of the woods in Warren).

 

So, now I was stuck.

 

Then I found "HINKER" which was a link to "cat.xula.edu/initiatives/rich/thinker blah, blah, blah" and "THINKER- An Interactive CD-ROM for Cognitive Psychology".

 

"Thinker"? "Hinker"? (light-bulb lights)- OH! OVER THINKER!

 

OVER THINKER ANONYMOUS!

I got it!

 

I wrote her a note telling her the entire story and told her that if she ever finds a chapter- to let ME know.-AdH