Dan A. wrote:
Nanohedron wrote:
This pebble wouldn't get out of my shoe...
I don't believe I've heard that one before, but I like it.
I thought the metaphor was well known. It's certainly venerable; goes all the way back to the invention of shoes, I believe. A late friend used to colorfully call a persistent annoyance a "raspberry seed in one's cavity". Evocative, but cumbersome to say, so I can't borrow it.
Dan A. wrote:
Considering said pebble's reluctance to leave, you must be wearing lineman's boots.
Or I'm not trying hard enough to take them off.
an seanduine wrote:
If you can find any one thing positive in your response to the smell of your copper scrubbie, it would be this: you still have a sense of smell. . .your olfactory bulb is intact and has not been attacked by the Covid-19 Virus.
So it has been reduced to this: "Even your dog abandoned you? At least you have your health."
