Rigid Is Not Rigorous
The boy was trying to pick up a small puppy with two sticks.
The puppy squirmed away from capture time and time again, landing on the ground and bounding away. The boy chased after the puppy with his two sticks. They did that for an hour. A passing stranger asked the boy why he didn’t use his hands. The boy explained himself with the universal expression of self-evident obviousness: “Because!!”
One try after another, for an hour, until the boy’s eyes filled with hot tears and he threw his sticks down to the grass in a jolt of fury because the sticks should have worked.
October 24th, 2005 at 8:20 pm
(Sigh). I have days like this.
This post is not designed to tease Donna about her less than skillful use of chopsticks, is it?
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October 25th, 2005 at 5:22 pm
I read this and could visualize our Sam (6) doing this with one of our dogs.
Like Lynne…days like this…
~~Pam