March 2009 Entries
…in the short term. In the long run, usually not so much.
Timmy, my eight year old son, was going to feed the fish and couldn't get the cover off the can. So he turned it sideways to get better leverage, and pulling hard, succeeded in getting the cover off. The can, being sideways, dumped its flakey contents on the counter. I happened to be standing right next to him watching this whole thing unfold. I looked at him, and he looked at me, and I was trying to figure out the words to say. Something to the effect of, "If you take the lid off a can when it's upside...