So the court was drawn the wrong way…
Scores can still be counted, and that’s all that matters.
No, wait- people can be shoved down a baby-oiled course with a stick. THAT’S all that matters.
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There’s a right way and a wrong way to do anything.
I sit in on my son’s violin lessons and take notes for him, Suzuki Class style. The last two lessons have mostly been about him correcting some posture habits that, if successful, will allow him to relax his left thumb just that little bit and thus result in a bigger, cleaner sound. Who’d have thought that the way you hold your opposite shoulder and bend your opposite elbow would eventually cause you to over-extend your thumb and mess up the tone of your playing?
Likewise with kayaking. Who’d have thought that hanging upside down and banging your head on the rocks as you pass wrong-way-up through a rapid could have an adverse effect on the way you hold your shoulders?
I may have had some elements of that last part transposed.
If anyone (and in my case, it was my kids) calls you out on what you just stated (in my case it was, “Take a bath”, I think), sometimes your best recourse is to ask, “Did you think I was lying, kidding, or wrong?” Because, think about it. If you ask someone something, or tell someone something, and they balk at either obeying or believing, then they must have thought you were… follow along here… lying, kidding, or wrong. There’s not another option, unless you were thinking ‘Sarcasm’ could be available.
Now, when my kids were young and I told them to do something, and they didn’t… I could ask them to tell me which one of these things I was. And they had no answer because they knew they’d ignored me not for one of those reasons, but because they’re humans with their own minds. They didn’t want to take a bath. Or clean their rooms, or whatever it was.
Feel free to go and sit around the campfire with your favorite intoxicating beverage one night and work out the solution to that problem. I’d suggest applying it to politics in general, which is always a good starting point for solving the world’s problems.
(oh, admit it. If you’ve ever been camping, you KNOW that all the world’s problems can be solved while sitting around a campfire intoxicated)
