Pillows
...yes, pillows
This past week, there was plenty of fodder for column writing. A dysfunctional House of Representatives, where one member had to be restrained from decking another, or the anniversary of a day that will live on in infamy, January 6th, 2021, when our Nation’s Capitol was under siege by homegrown terrorists, or a horrible football injury that captured our hearts.
Well, my Iowa Writers’ Collaborative columnists did just that, and I highly recommend you follow and read what they have to say.
I, however, am going to introduce the topic of pillows. Not the kind some far-right guy is selling to fund his form of insurrection; I’m talking about the ubiquitous throw pillow.
They are either cause of someone saying, “Why the hell do we need so goddam many pillows around here?”
Or: “MORE effing pillows? You’ve got to be kidding me.”
Followed by, “Can we please not have so many pillows on the bed? I trip over them when I get up in the middle of the night.”
In my observation, this issue is a gender identification litmus test. It is a binary split down the middle.
Nor, have I discovered any two people who hold opposing views on the topic of throw pillows, who have come to an amiacable solution.
Richard and I are on vacation, and for some odd reason this topic has come up five times in the last two weeks. Why, I do not know.
But I knew it would become a column topic when it was the subject of a minor altercation in a sweet gift shop in a country not too far from the United States.
This, my friends, almost became an international issue.
So, that’s all I’ve got this week.
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