Saturday, 12 March 2011

Two Pictures And A Story

Some of us have the habit of filing just about anything that is suspected to be of subsequent interest. Those that cling to items that are devoid of any immediate usefulness, tend to experience marital problems. What is rated as junk by tidy wives has bad consequences. One is that, just by laying around, the mess takes space. The other one is that these forgotten memories gather dust. The objections of spouses can be overcome by pretending to “file” the pile “soon”. In translation that means that, the obnoxious material is reluctantly stuffed into boxes in which the mess is perpetuated. Such containers reproduce in the manner of unsupervised guinea pigs. Out of control, they are stored until the packages hiding the earlier disorder become a new obstruction.