On the Human Condition

These days, there are too many people going around, spouting out useful self-help tidbits, like : "Do something for yourself, for a change. BE selfish." This just creates people who blow off business meetings for a weekend in Tijuana. Those who make their daily $60 impulse buys, spending the family savings on a new juicer, which is used once, to shred some old paperwork, then is set under the house with the other rejected single-use electronics. There lay such favorites as the electronic staple remover, and the automatic knitting machine. They seem a welcome break from the constant struggle of the average American life. "Now, I don't have to deal with the everyday toil of picking those annoying staples out of my business letters, and maybe, for once, I can have someone do the work for me, instead of spending countless hours in front of the television, laboring over that sweater for my niece. " After two hours of setup, and three sets of batteries, however, they are invariably replaced with hands and fingernails. Poor, poor forgotten equipment. What now is there to knit, but a forlorn sweater of cobwebs and dust?