I’m leaning back in my chair as I type this post.
As unremarkable as this may seem to you, it is noteworthy.
You see, I’ve had a wireless keyboard for over a year, but this is the first time that I’m using it away from its normal location in front of my monitor.
Sometimes we are blind to the obvious.
As a young man, shaving hadn’t yet turned into a daily chore, but it was a dangerous routine. I’d get to the Adam’s apple and snip, off would come a bit of skin. Ouch!
I did this each time I shaved until a co-worker asked me why I kept cutting myself. He showed me how I should use my left hand to slide the skin away from my Adam’s apple and then shave that spot.
He changed my life.
The first time that I rented a rowboat, I was having a hard time making it go anywhere. Rowing, it seemed, was much harder than I thought. Each time I looked, I could see that I had drifted farther from the shore.
I struggled until a good Samaritan in a passing boat called out to me.
“Turn around, Ass-hole!”
Who knew that the pointed end of the boat should be behind you?
He saved my life.
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