Human equivalent: Images of sexy women and men dangled before us in movies, advertising, tv, etc. enticing us to beat ourselves up in a desperate attempt to achieve the "ideal" (read often unrealistic and Photoshopped) proportions.
Do you know how much longer it would take to text "ghastly" instead of "bad?" And that's not even taking into consideration the need to spell it correctly! I am way too busy trying to drive to worry about whether I use a creative or a common word in my texts! I mean really! ;-)
Scene: Therapist office. Patient lying on a couch. Therapist scribbling madly. Patient: "I don't know what it is Doc, but whenever I see a hand towel, I get this unexplainable terror that it is going to jump up and rip my face off. Is this normal?"
Remy, don't know you outside your posts, but you seem like good people. Keep up the search for humanity and for empathy. I promise it really is out there.
The show playing in the background is "How I Met Your Mother" Episode 14 (Last Words), 6th season. Don't you just love the internet?
I love Robin Hood and the Black Cauldron, and I think that The Sword in the Stone should be included on this list.
Patient: "I don't know what it is Doc, but whenever I see a hand towel, I get this unexplainable terror that it is going to jump up and rip my face off. Is this normal?"