I saw some yarn lying on the floor today. It was a lovely, deep, plum purple colour. I picked it up, intrigued. I saw the top of a huge picture of a woman on the label, and I turned the yarn around so I could see all of her – I was wondering what the yarn looked like knit. But the woman wasn’t wearing a hat or a scarf or a poncho made from the lovely purple yarn – no, she was wearing a heavily beaded earing and a pearl-coated tank-top. I was confused. Whats the point of putting a random woman on a yarn label?
Curly silver letters were on the label, too. “Vanna White.” Hm. Perhaps she’s a famous knitter or something. Oh wait…Vanna…isn’t she that person on Jepordy or Wheel of Fortune or something?
More curly letters – far bigger than the last. “Vanna’s Choice.”
The white-toothed, two-tone haired woman who looked younger than she should stared back at me, her sparkling earing flashing. The words above her head said “The yarn for all your projexts. I know you’ll love it as much as I do.”
I don’t think the yarn company’s using Vanna’s face to sell their product - I think they’re trying to scare you into buying it…like threatening a child: “If you don’t buy this yarn…Vanna will eat you!”
1. Why do we do fine when people aren’t looking, but if we ask them to watch, we mess up?
2. Do things taste differently for different people – and if we tasted what they taste, then we would like it, too, or are our taste buds different?
3. Why do we have favourite colours? Why do you think whoever thought of it thought of it? When do you think he/she thought of it?
4. When is a child accountable for his or her sins?
5. Is your first memory real, or a dream? Has your first memory always been the same?
6. What if you had all the money in the world? What would you do with it? How long would you have all the money in the world…because if you bought anything, someone else would have money, too. Would your supply of money be endless because you would have money printed for you personally? Do you think it would really be possible to have all the money in the world, or would people be dishonest and steal the money you printed or print their own? Do you think you’d ever find out that you weren’t the only person with money?
7. If you close your eyes, is it harder to smell, hear and taste? If you listen to loud music that drowns everything out is it harder to concentrate on something or smell or taste something? Is that in your head or real?
8. Why do you believe what you believe? Are there any holes/uncertainties in your beliefs?
9. How do you know that something you’ve been doing all your life isn’t wrong?
10. When foreign people write poems, do they rhyme in English, the sounds of the language, or the words of the language?
