I mean obviously no logical thinking human actually thinks that what you need to do.
It's just a form of over exaggeration so that the story makes others feel the way that the story teller felt. If I had just said "And I was kind of worried a little bit, until I googled it the end."... That's not a very good story.
Likewise I didn't ACTUALLY think a yeti was crawling through the screen to get me.
When I was a lonely, depressed virgin I thought that my sexual desires were the root of all my longings and yearnings and misery at being alone, so my solution was going to be to castrate myself. I kept talking about it and thinking about it until I did research and found out that a gland produces as much if not more testosterone as the testes after a period of about six months to a year after their removal.
It was a weird time in my life when I needed a dose of manning the **** up.