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Stranger Than Wal-Mart

"Some 138 million Americans shop at Wal-Mart each week, making it perhaps the single most unifying cultural force in the country."
Chris Anderson, The Long Tail

Thursday, October 13, 2005

Hands | Tyler Cook

1. Hanging on to the heavy washcloth by a thread and lifting it slowly from the sink.

2. Carefully picking away the tender pieces of jagged flesh from your bleeding knuckles after slugging someone in the mouth.

3. Slapping the side of your head as you lean over, trying without success to get the water from your ear.

4. Turning up your palms in hopes of learning something helpful from the eccentric woman across the table with the unkempt hair.

5. Hesitantly reaching forward as the teacher brings her ruler down.

6. Tucked away safely in the folds of her arms, so that weird boy who asked her to the movies won’t try to hold them.

7. Drumming "Blue Monday" on the side of the monitor, displaying your disinterest in homework.

8. Placing a limp hand in yours and expecting it to pass as a decent handshake. You squeeze excessively hard to teach him a lesson.

9. Ripping a bad idea from your note book and tossing it across the room.

10. Wanting lotion as you message your scaly, cracked knuckles. Winter makes them dry.

1 Comments:

Blogger H said...

These are some really good ones! Ones that you don't really think about but really do all the time. I especially liked holding the washcloth up by a single thread. I can completely relate!

8:43 AM, October 15, 2005  

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