My adhd is broken. I never have an interesting collection of questions to unleash on people; my brain just goes blank while I try to remember what a question is.
Well, it's a spectrum :) I have 4 ADHD people at home, all diagnosed and medicated, but they all behave differently. One has too many questions, another one none... 🤷
If you ask me to list things, I'll struggle to find more than 1 example of whatever. Even stuff that I know so well I could do a ted talk on, but my brain just violently opposes enumerating stuff...
Completely depends on the situation and what I did before the question. But yeah most of the time I'm either trying so hard to focus on what we're talking about that I don't let other thoughts come up or I have way to many thoughts to keep track and they all vanish the moment I get asked a question.
It's like asking "what are you thinking about?" - I'll answer "nothing specific" because the honest answer would require to go back 30 minutes of thoughts so you get the context of why I'm even thinking all those things that seem unrelated otherwise.
Aside from what others said, it could be that they're kept as weapons, kinda like baseball bats.
Your Lord doesn't allow you to have actual weapons, but nobody can stop you from buying farming tools, so you keep one by the door to fend off lycanthropes and Jehovah's witnesses.
Okay so statistically speaking, in agrarian/preindustrial societies more than 9/10 of them would be farmers, which means they would (hopefully) have pitchforks. And if you don't have a pitchfork, then you shouldn't be at the front because then you'll be blocking someone with a pitchfork. You can carry a torch or something maybe.
Also, some farmers might have multiple pitchforks (so the wife/kids can pitch in, I'm pretty sure that's the literal meaning so not a pun BTW), and would know you probably don't have a pitchfork so would kindly bring along a spare to the angry mobbing.