Saturday, March 31, 2012

On Things That Are Green

There are a great many things in this world that are green, among which can be found plants, bugs, eggs and ham, houses, frogs, and jackets worn by little men as they go trooping up the mountains and through glens.

With spring having begun last week, let us look at the first two items listed; both which we will be seeing more of in the coming weeks. Plants, which make up the majority of green things, can lead an individual to happiness or distress. If you find yourself surrounded by them in a garden it can be most pleasant and provide you with a relaxing afternoon or they may make up that tasty salad you had for lunch. In contrast, an encounter with poison ivy will most likely lead to a great deal of itching and most likely the wish that you had paid more attention to the plants you had touched. Bugs, unlike plants, usually bring about thoughts of disgust or of horror and more often than not appear on an individual seemingly out of nowhere to bring one to a sudden state of shrieking in attempt to be rid of them. While this is not the case for all green bugs, few would probably be glad to find themselves the unsuspecting transportation for a grasshopper or caterpillar.

And with that, as you go about your week consider all the lovely green things around you and try not to go near plants that will make you itch!

Thursday, March 15, 2012

On The Valuableness Of Tape

Of all the office supplies there are few that are as valuable and yet as problematically sticky as tape. For example, tape can be used to repair a wide variety of papers and objects ranging from books to dropped hems. Tape can keep up a picture or poster and if you have dropped your hole-punch on the floor or scattered some other small thing, it can be used to pick up all those little pieces that are now decorating your floor. In addition, if you have a small furry friend several pieces of tape can be used to swiftly remove their fur from your clothing, so that you do not take on the appearance of that friend.

On the downside, there are those unpleasantly sticky situations where the tape decides it must stick to everything except for the object you desire it on. By the time you get it off what it has stuck itself to, such as your hair, fingers, clothing, or surface you are working on, you find it has become perfectly useless by either having lost its stick or having become a small sticky wad. From here you can only hope that the next piece will be more successfully stuck.

So as can be seen from these few examples, tape proves valuable for many uses and the sticky situations that can result from tape are endless.