Next Thursday

I had a converstation with my grandpa last night. It went something like this, it took place on a Wednesday.

"Hey i have a band concert this Thursday, well i guess, tomorrow." - Me

"Oh you mean next Thursday?" - PopPop [grandpa]

"No i mean tomorrow" - Me

"Well that is next thursday." - PopPop

"Oh is it? then when is this Thursday?" - Me

"Well i'm not sure, when do you think?" - PopPop

"Wouldn't this Thursday only exist if it actually is Thursday?" - Me

"The world may never know. But see that's how people talk." - PopPop

"You're right, why can't they just say, the Thursday of the week following this week?" - Me

I've never really took the way i said things into consideration, because i've realized that alot of things are like that. It's just intreresting. Then sometimes seeing how that phrase has progressed though history is cool too. Like i was...well, i was "doing my buisness" and i said "howdy" to myself. Don't ask me why. So then i thought, who the heck one day just said howdy? And i thought about it. It sounds like "How do you do?" and you always hear cowboys saying that, and who says howdy? Cowboys. So i think that it was something along those lines, when someone said "Howdy do?" because that sounds extrememly like how do you do. Just my guess. But i thought it was interesting. Sweet.

-Jacob