As Yvon Chouinard, a founder of Patagonia, once said “If you want to be a winner, invent your own sport”. Baseball is just a sissy’s game to anyone who’s waved at passing trains. (McKuen)
On one cruise, we saw a woman pushing a pink baby carriage with a small dog inside. I missed my dog when I traveled, but he stayed home while I was away.
Men solve problems. Women don’t want the problem solved right away. They want empathy for the situation. It takes a lot of men a long time to learn how to do that.
I was at a high school STEM event where an 11th grade student was asked what 7 times 4 was. He replied that he was not good at math. Turns out he never had to learn the multiplication tables. They used calculators instead.
I told this story to a friend of mine who related a similar story: His son would always come into their kitchen and ask what time it was. There was a clock on wall but his son had never learned how to read an analog clock.
I told both stories to a former employee at lunch. He too related a similar story: His daughter and her husband were buying a house. He had to sign the mortgage papers. He was interrupted when printing his name because it required a signature instead. He told the realtor that he never learned cursive. The realtor asked that he practice creating a “signature”, something that he could identify as his 30 years from now.
While these seem like grave educational omissions, things change over time. Most of us no longer know how to change the wick in a lantern or hitch up a team of horses.
As Yvon Chouinard, a founder of Patagonia, once said “If you want to be a winner, invent your own sport”. Baseball is just a sissy’s game to anyone who’s waved at passing trains. (McKuen)