I Was Absent That Day

There are some things that I should have known but didn't. It is good to know that I am not the only one. Thsad part is that I think the younger generation will have a lot more moments of not knowing. So many things are not talked about anymore and they experiences are limited to computers and games and not outside.

Perhaps you know that pickles come from cucumbers. That the Washington Redskins are in Washington, D.C. and not Washington state. And that Roy Orbison was not blind.

But all around you are intelligent, upstanding citizens who do not know these – and other — things.

Trust us.

Part of being an adult is finding out stuff you should have known for years but somehow didn't.

It could be something serious, like knowing never to mix ammonia and bleach. Or something trivial, like understanding which side the fork goes on in a place setting. It could be the chronic misuse of a word, such as "comprise" – as in "A baseball team comprises nine players."(Yes. That's really how you're supposed to use it.) It could be misheard song lyrics or a misinterpreted logo.

But it's pretty much inevitable that at some point each of us as an adult will slap our forehead and think, "Why didn't I know that? I must have been absent that day."

Often, it's something that if we had just stopped to think about it, to hold it up in the light for examination at an earlier time, it would have made more sense.

The problem, of course, is we don't stop.

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