The jigsaw is up

By Tom Toles





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You didn't see this one coming

You think you know all the obvious things, but you don't. For example, is it difficult to scamper down stairs backwards? Leave aside for the moment that you haven't scampered ANYWHERE recently, which is too bad, because of all the lost arts, scampering is genuinely one of the tragic losses.

And I'm not asking you to go TRY scampering backwards down the stairs, because we all know that you are somewhat clumsy to begin with and would fall and hurt yourself and blame me, and we don't want that. I just want you to THINK about whether it would be difficult to scamper down stairs backwards. It will be something fun to think about today and every day that you REFRAIN from trying it. That refraining part is key.

I am very confident that I am the only person who will suggest this to you today. --Tom Toles

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