A Question…
I am a therapist, a shrink if you will. The one piece of equipment that is ubiquitous to a shrink’s office is the box of tissues. People cry when we talk to them, sometimes noisily, but mostly just gentle tracks of tears. The tissues are for dabbing at the tears. And then for shredding in the aftermath of the tears. I know this, and I empathize (which is what we shrinks do). But here’s my question: Except for the occasional snot-filled sob session, why should anyone need more than one tissue at a time? What is it with these doubledippers, who reach out and without really looking, lift one-two tissues from the box? Are they just tissue gluttons? Do they think perhaps just one won’t suffice the enormity of their grief? Every time I get a double-dipper in my office, I want to ask them.
But somehow it just doesn’t seem like the right moment to do so.
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Re: I have to admit…
read your blog–tried to comment, but blogger spat me out. wtf? will continue reading though…
I have to admit…
I’m a cryer. If crying was a profession I’d be a millionaire. I was pretty good for a while but now menopause has me in it’s tight grips and I’m back to crying again. It sucks, but, trust me when I cry and have to blow my nose….it’s as if I’m clearing my head of decades of “crap.” Everyone in the room feels safer if I grab multiple tissues before blowing God only knows how much emotional garbage from my head! Just a little feedback from the other side!! I enjoy your writing and plan to continue reading! The link above is from a blog I was writing that was invaded by some undesirables so I took most of the writing down and filed it away. I’m slowly gathering the stomach to once again enter the blogging world (deciding if I’m going to use my “real” name etc.) so there’s not much there. Maybe enough to give you a basic idea of who I am. We read many of the same blogs…LeahPeah, Dooce, Blurbomat, etc.
http://deepthoughtsfuzzymemories.blogspot.com/
Some people just seem to require enormous amounts of disposable paper products to shield their fingers from their own emissions. I bet the double-dippers also use enormous amounts of toilet roll. (Only being half-facetious here)
‘One for now, one for later’ is an attitude very often seen among the thrifty and hard-up, people who may not consider tissues something they would buy for themselves. As a parent, even though my girls are now adults I still carry a hefty wodge of tissues around in my bag, ‘just in case’.