I was with some folks today that were moving stuff into my room. The last thing to be brought upstairs was a table. The only problem was that the table was too large. It had to be taken apart. We just needed a philips screw driver to complete the task. As I began unscrewing the screws, I naturally thought, ‘righty tighty, lefty loosey’. Immediately I asked myself, ‘where the heck did that saying come from?’. I mean seriously, where did start? Did some guy in Montreal in 1932 working at Haggen’s Super Dump just blurt it out one day and now virtually every human being knows it? How does that kind of thing happen? Seriously, think about it, one day you say something no other person has ever said, and now it’s permanently in the human vocabulary. And what’s worse, you never get credit for it. In fact, where do half the friggin’ things we say comes from? And why is it bothering me so much right now? And why am I writing this in the closet? Feel free to file this in the ‘Jeremiah’s insane’ files.
-Jeremiah
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