I used to tell Dr.Nick that he should offer up obscure aphorisms during his class lectures and if students asked for clarification he should protect the mystery by nodding, and answering: Exactly!
I walked into my favorite discount store and was amused to find it had turned into a hamster cage, judging by all the ripped up newspaper covering the entire floor. HUH, I thought. A nice little morning mystery. I collected a few essentials and a few non-essentials and headed like a gerbil down the row of the register. She rang me up and I asked: What’s with all the newspaper?
“Oh. We’re moving.”
What? I left it there. Preserving the mystery. I occasionally still puzzle through that scenario. Is it a way to clean the floors effortlessly? Does it let you slide boxes around easily? Is it confetti, getting you semi-excited about the sale?
Exactly.