Decisions: canary or paisley?

"Although we don't often notice this, our little voice chatters away in the preceding situations. I stare into my closet on Friday morning and my little inner voice commences: Paisley shirt or the canary one? Canary. But got to dress up on Monday so canary today means doing laundry over the weekend. Paisley! And I reach for the paisley (or is it: As I reach for the paisley? Or even after I've begun reaching for the paisley?...)."

Bickle, John (2003), Empirical Evidence for a Narrative Concept of Self, in Fireman, Gary D., McVay, Ted. E. Jr. & Flanagan, Owen J. (eds) (2003), Narrative and Consciousness: Literature, Psychology and the Brain, Oxford University Pres, Oxford, New York, p. 199