See Ed. Ed works at a store. Ed started working at the store in September of 1998. Ed has worked at the store for a long time. Working makes Ed hungry and thirsty. Ed likes to eat and drink when he is hungry or thirsty. Ed likes to drink beer. Sometimes even after he is no longer very hungry or very thirsty, Ed will drink beer. Ed has a lot of friends. Ed and his friends drink beer together. They have a good time when they are drinking beer. Ed and his friends tell funny stories, and laugh a lot. Laughing is good. Laughing releases certain chemicals into the blood that make our bodies work better. Ed and his friends like to go to a certain place to laugh more than other places. It is called a tavern. A tavern is a place where grown up people go to laugh. A tavern is like a playground inside, where grown up people can play. The tavern where Ed and his friends like to go is called the Chatterbox. A chatterbox is somebody who talks all of the time. I bet you know a chatterbox. The Chatterbox tavern is not a person, but a place where Ed and his friends can go and talk. Ed and his friends hear and tell stories and laugh and have beer.
See Pam. Pam works for an insurance company. Pam is in public relations at the insurance company. Public relations is how big companies keep people from hating them. By doing some nice things big companies can get away with a lot of not so nice things. Public relations is like giving the teacher an apple. If you give the teacher a lot of apples maybe you won't get time out for pushing Billy Buttface into Stinky Susie in the lunch line. Public Relations is supposed to make you think of the apples and not the bullies. Doing Public Relations makes Pam hungry and thirsty. Pam likes to eat and drink when she is hungry or thirsty, too. Pam likes to drink beer too. Pam has a lot of friends too. Pam and Ed made friends at the Chatterbox Tavern. They have a good time when they are together and drinking beer.
Pam and Ed fell in love. Love is like a really big pool of water. When you fall in a really big pool of water you get in over your head. You have to learn how to be in the really big pool of water. You have to learn to get back to the top and not drown and die.
You can learn to swim. Then you like being in the pool of water. Then you don't ever want to get out. Pam and Ed decided to get married. They wanted to have a good time together more than just at the Chatterbox. Pam and Ed are in the Pool and they don't want to get out. Pam and Ed are not really going to stay in a pool forever. Saying a pool and love are the same is a type of metaphor. A metaphor is a way of comparing two dissimilar things (things that are not really the same like you and your crybaby sister or stupid brother), to make a cognitive connection. If you know how a ball looks and I say the sun is like a ball you know how the sun looks (but a ball won't give you a sunburn or make you go blind looking at it so they are not exactly the same, see). Pam and Ed got in the pool last Saturday at 2:40, that is when they got married to each other. They are on their last day of their honeymoon today. Tomorrow Pam and Ed will be back at the Insurance company and the store. Tomorrow Pam and Ed will probably be at the Chatterbox. The Chatterbox is in Pam and Ed's pool too. They will probably have funny stories about their trip, and we will drink beer and laugh and things will be more like before, and we will release laugh chemicals into our bodies. It will be good to see Pam and Ed again.

Chuck Pace © 2007
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