When you were a kid and had hair and dried your hair with a blow drier and wore platform shoes, did you ever lasso the drier's cord around a drawer knob or some other object in the bathroom?
When you were a kid and played pretend cowboy, did you ever try to lasso an object in the yard, one of your mother's flower pots or your little sister?
How many times did you successfully lasso that flower pot? How many times did you successfully lasso something in the bathroom? My success ratio in the bathroom was prolific. That cord wrapped itself around stuff in such ways that I could safely rappel down a mountain.
I wonder if success isn't much like lassoing? The harder you try, the more it slips away from you. The less you try, the more likely it will come.
Speaking of hair driers, did you ever drop the cord end on your toe? How could something so light hurt so much?
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