Comments on: Sticker Patches

By: will shetterly

will shetterly — Thu, 08 May 2008 06:34:02 +0000

Rory, yup, you nailed that!

By: Rory Harper

Rory Harper — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:34:51 +0000

Will – Yep. No subtext or metaphors or anything tricky like that here to confuse us, of course.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjONblHLPPI

By: Morgan J. Locke

Morgan J. Locke — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:13:32 +0000

Good point, Will.

By: will shetterly

will shetterly — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:45:05 +0000

The sticker story is very true, but when you teach it, remind folks that the rules for wading rivers are different: sometimes you have to admit the water’s too damn deep, turn around, and head back for shore.

By: Morgan J. Locke

Morgan J. Locke — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:18:38 +0000

Yep, that’s a good one, Mad. (though I think you are underestimating my own stupidity and arrogance in assuming I could dance lightly through a sticker patch without severe consequences)

By: Madeleine Robins

Madeleine Robins — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:43:34 +0000

Beautifully said.

My version of this (replete with far more stupidity than Morgan has ever evinced) was to sculpt things out of burrs: dogs, cats, horses, buildings, jewelry. And a very elaborate crown, which I placed on my head. And worked farther into my hair as I tried to remove it.

My mother, not known to have much patience with this sort of flight of fancy, did not bother to chase after the burrs; she simply cut the crown out of my hair, and I dealt with having the world’s weirdest haircut for six months.

What this told me was: sometimes the quickest and least painful way to deal with something is going to have some long-range consequences.