Read Thy Book - Sam's Blog
  • Home
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact
  • Pics
  • Home
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact
  • Pics

Picture

June 14th, 2018

6/14/2018

0 Comments

 
Picture
Anyone besides me recall this shape from your school days?  It's just a conical shape, like perhaps an upside down ice cream cone or maybe a witches hat without a brim.

  A million or so years ago when dinosaur's walked the earth and I was in primary school, it was called a dunce cap.  In one of the many school's I attended, in one particular classroom (I cannot speak to any of the other's as I was only with this one teacher there)  if a student did something especially dumb, they were made to wear the dunce cap.  Education by humiliation was the thought, I assume.  By the way it doesn't work.

I had other teachers who simply mimed putting on an "invisible" conical cap, but they referred to it as a "thinking cap".  As in, "Ok student, I'm going to pass out the tests now, so everyone needs to put on their thinking caps".  This method of teaching also didn't really work. A person either knew the material or they didn't.  An invisible paper conical cap was immaterial

The reason this came to mind was yesterday.   When I was working at the museum, I was ON it. I knew the answers to every question asked, I came up with ideas,  I was firing on all burners, I didn't stumble over any words, or trip over my feet!  My supervisor there observed something I did and smiled hugely, "I cannot believe you remember that!" she said, impressed with me.  Heck, I was impressed with me!  I guess I was really wearing my thinking cap.

And then I woke up in the wee darkness of the night and sat bolt upright in bed. Dang it!  I forgot to take out the garbage.  So I heaved myself out of my nice comfy bed and into whichever pair of sandals I could find in the dark and dragged the garbage can to the curb.  I'd like to point out that we have now lived in this house for two entire years and every single Sunday and Wednesday night I take out the garbage.  Wouldn't you think I would remember?  A dunce cap moment.

So in one day I got wear both the dunce cap and the thinking cap! How is it that a person can be both very smart and very stupid at the same time?  I do it ALLLL the time.  

I have in my lifetime given out some very good advice from now and again.  And yet, I accidentally whack my knee on the dishwasher door while emptying it all of the time.   I can be quite creative and clever in my baking but if something goes awry with my computer, I may as well be lost as sea.  I can carry on a good conversation with almost anyone about almost anything but at the same time, recently, could not think of the word, "Fossil".  I consider myself fairly well read, reasonably intelligent and decently education and yet when it comes to the game of Scrabble, I suck.  There is no other way to describe it, except perhaps to say that I stink on ice.

So I suppose it's a normal thing someone to wear both a dunce cap and a thinking cap every moment of every day. If nothing else, it's a Sam-thing.

Well there was that time when we had unexpected company for dinner and I managed to whip up a very good meal for four people with what had been intended for two and nobody was the wiser.  That day I wore my Sorcerer's Cap!

Wishing you a Sorcerer's Cap kind of day!

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Yup, this is me. Some people said, "Sam, you should write a Blog".   "Well, there's a thought", I thought to myself. And so here it is.

    Archives

    May 2025
    April 2025
    March 2025
    February 2025
    January 2025
    December 2024
    November 2024
    October 2024
    September 2024
    August 2024
    July 2024
    June 2024
    May 2024
    April 2024
    March 2024
    February 2024
    January 2024
    December 2023
    November 2023
    October 2023
    September 2023
    August 2023
    July 2023
    June 2023
    May 2023
    April 2023
    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly