“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve” is perhaps three times as difficult to unravel…
When someone appears to be in distress, they will sometimes be addressed in what may sound like a questioning manner, implying something like “May I interrupt?”, to show reluctance to intrude on whatever the issue may be.
Pull out the lint filter after a load of laundry and take a look at it. Better yet, weigh it, and weigh a sock. Think about entropy: the sock is order, the lint is disorder. That’s where the socks are going. If you learn to knit socks, you can reverse the entropy somewhat, at the cost of your brain and muscles putting more heat into the universe.
“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve” is perhaps three times as difficult to unravel…