Hands of a sturgeon

[ksmith]

A few years ago, I bought a jigsaw crab figure from an artist at Wiscon. It's a neat-looking work, but you have to be careful because pieces could easily slide out of place and then you'd be left with a pile of, well, pieces.

So there it was, standing atop a CD container, which in turn sits atop my file cabinet in my office. This cabinet is pretty firmly ensconced in a corner, hard by a bookcase. Nothing is going to be moving anytime soon.

So I'm hunting for my Cowboy Junkies CD with "Common Disaster", and check that particular CD case...which won't open and won't open...

...until I pull the door and it slams down, the shock of which sends the crab figure over backwards. Imagine the sound of the various pieces as they fly apart, bouncing off the back of the cabinet and the wall before scattering to the floor. Behind the cabinet. Hard by a bookcase. Which ain't going to be moving anytime soon.

I hate it when that happens.

Comments

[belasco.livejournal.com]

You remember the "puzzle rings" that were so popular about a decade ago? I got two of them, very nicely jumbled in my "old jewelery" box. I think about putting them back together every other year or so, but I seem to resist the impulse sucessfully.