WAG - Meaningless Words that Sound Good
I’ve spent 7 hours in the car and $6 to purchase a plastic fish.
If I haven’t seized this day, I don’t what more I could have done.
Today I got to hit my favorite recovery sales place in Kansas City: Cargo Largo.
Paperbacks cost $2.00 and hardbacks cost a buck more (regardless of previously list price.
Most new DVDs are reduced by a third and once you throw in cheap clothing, decorative items, and magnets, and it’s a nice place to cruise.
The challenge is finding diamonds in the rough. One may peruse hundred of titles before plucking out a something worth a second look - and only so many of them are holding on to after that.
Nevertheless, I still walked out with several items including a half dozen shirts (none priced more than $5), two books I’ve had on my list for a while (Prey by Michael Crichton and The Real Science Behind the X-Files by Dr. Anne Simon), and a mountable rainbow trout.
It was a good haul.
Of course, from there, my family hit three antique stores, so I didn’t end on the high note I hoped for, but what can you do?
Sometimes you strike it rich; sometimes you’re just happy to make it out of the mines alive.
The trick is knowing to pull out when the canary starts to get dizzy.
Um… After a second read, I don’t know if that metaphor actually works, but it sounds so cool I’m gonna let it slide.
This may seem like me being lazy, and maybe it is, but the concept of words sounding "right" when they are meaningless reminds me of a certain comic I recalled from going through the back archives of the online comic Scary Go Round.
I pause as you check it out and let it speak for itself...
It's true that some things sound good when echoing in your head, but are actually better left unvoiced.
Now I have to split before the audience traps me in a landslide.
(At least that last one made sense.)
'Though_we_ARE_just_like_shoes'
