Conundrum
If your grabby stick (which you have just been using to pick up all the dried leaves which Someone carries in on her tail and then drops on to the carpet) falls on the floor, how do you pick it up...?
The Editor
posted by
Lady Bracknell | Monday, November 26, 2007
14 Comments:
Buy new grabby stick and have it delivered express?
• Teach "Someone" to pick it up and bring it to you.
• Magnets.
• Go "fishing" for it with duct tape.
• Learn telekinesis.
• Phone up a cute member of the opposite sex (or the same sex if that's your preference) and express to them how grateful you'd be if they could just pop over and do you one little favor...
• Loop string around the end of the grabby stick and raise it that way.
• Get a 2nd grabby stick.
... I could go on but I'll stop here ;)
You invite the Dude round and throw some marmite toast on the floor beside the grabby stick?
I was going to suggest stepping on the tip of the grabby stick to sort of lever the other end up-- but that really only works well on a thick carpet. There's also a certain amount of bending still involved in the equation, though perhaps not as far as before. So maybe not.
Rather a moot point, of course, considering that this post has been up for twelve hours or so, and you've probably retrieved the grabby stick by now.
Katie:
But what if Dude (or Marmite Boy if he comes over instead) only attacks the toast and leaves the grabby stick untouched?
Better to bribe him properly: SHOW him the marmite toast. Then after he starts salivating (though I have no idea why he would, being American myself) tell him he can only have it after handing over the grabby stick.
I like Melissa's notion of learning telekinesis. Although I imagine there would be a certain learning curve involved, once mastered, this skill could then be useful in a great many other contexts.
Or try kicking at it. It may not actually be productive but might at least allow for venting of one's annoyance.
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I wait for the Hon to pick it up for me.
Eggtongs, mayhaps? If they are too short, surely the Lady has some coal tongs she might use.
... and how do you then pick the Dude up??
Marmite toast though. Hmmm. Might be worth it.
Dude
You get the Dude to pass you the grabby stick.
You then use the grabby stick to pick up the Dude.
Simple.
I think we have the definitive solution.
Now, where's that mamrmite...?
... and I get to eat the Marmite toast.
Yay! Mary rocks!!
You're all crazy. Marmite.....*shiver*
..though I can't talk. A friend of mine has promised to procure something called marmite twigs, under the promise I'll love them. And, like a fool, I plan to try.
[pssst! I think she means Twiglets, or "Twilights" as they are knwn Chez Dude. Shall we tell her?]
Lady, your courage is inspiring.
Marmite. Twigs.
I don't know how to type the sound the back of my throat makes at the thought.
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