That look that a dog has at it stares at a door, willing it to open, and too stupid to not even realize that that is what he or she is doing, and that (even in the case of clever dogs) willing a door to open doesn’t really mean a thing anyway–I’ve been perplexed like that many times, mostly while inebriated (once when I was ten years old and completely sober, after a rugby ball hit me so hard in the head that I didn’t know what day it was). Well, maybe not quite as perplexed as a staring dog, but pretty flabbergasted. And that should hardly come as a great surprise to you the reader. Confusion is all around us and takes many shapes and forms. No sooner have we solved one problem than we’ve brought a dozen greater ones upon ourselves!
I’m sure it’s not just me. I’m certain I can’t be the only person in the world who has sat (or slumped) with a friend drinking cheap cider and debated if it’s possible to build stairs which ascend but also enable you to go downhill simultaneously, or why it is that Lion’s have such tidy mains and no feasible means of going to the hairdressers. These are the great riddles of mankind, and be warned: if you are a young reader you may wish to not know that this will continue throughout your life. Year after year, no matter what great knowledge you compile, new challenges and ridiculous questions will crop up, especially when drunk. But that’s what makes life so great, isn’t it? No drinking, I mean, although it has its merits. Us humans not only have the power to drive our own species in to the ground but we can, unlike other animals, do so while going out to buy designer clothes, making appointments at Laser Hair Removal Manchester, and doing a great number of activities which seem so much more important.
