The Paperclip Chain Thread

[Kiminy]

@dwyr

I confess to being a paperclip chain maker, especially when bored. I like to link them through the inner loop. I remember one day, left alone at my mother’s desk in her office while she was working elsewhere, I found a large box of clips and had at them. It was a couple of days before she discovered my little project and she wasn’t very happy about it.

THIS is my son!!!

@dwyr

I also made some dinky gum wrapper chains at school but I prefered to make staple chains as they required more technical skill and the risk of being stabbed by the pointy bits made the endeavor more fulfilling somehow.

This, on the other hand, is my daughter.

[EmeraldGrue]

The Inspiration of Utter Boredom:

The summer I went treeplanting. For a couple of weeks we planted seedlings that came bundled together in 16’s by rubber bands. A treeplanter plants hundreds, if not thousands, of trees a day - do the math, that’s a lot of rubber bands. At the end of that time, one bus had a ball the size of a basketball and much, much heavier and perfectly spherical, a true work of art. The other bus wasted all theirs snapping them at each other on the ride home.