Last night, I was wandering about giving post-margarita tours of the university to people who worked in another part of the university. I decided to be like a real tour guide and walk backwards while talking. This story has a predictable ending. What I did discover is that while you can swerve around a telephone pole, there are sometimes cables attached to it that will catch your ankles.
This made me appreciate those folks who can talk about surroundings while walking backwards up stairs, across streets, and around corners. I started to wonder how many random skills there are that go unappreciated. I've so far come up with three while being pre-second-cup-of-coffee.
1. Tight rope walkers. I don't know how someone discovers they have this talent. I can recall all zero times in my life where I've needed to walk across anything on a piece of rope.
2. Fire breathers/sword swallowers. Again, I don't know how they discovered this talent. Or exactly how one would decide to practice such things. Yet, there are people who do this.
3. Taxes. Seriously. I can actually feel my blood pressure rise just sitting down with the stupid booklet. Pulling out the calculator makes it that much worse. Speaking of which, I'd better find a stamp and get that stuff mailed out.
My coffee cup is empty and yet I feel no smarter. Perhaps I can't find wisdom from a cup of ground-up, burnt beans soaked in water...but I try anyways.
An Erinku! (More like a Haiku instead of Sodoku):
spoon
resting on floor
I'll take you
to your home.
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