An April fool prank Mrs. Gadget played on friends and family that works all year long; she took ordinary cotton balls and pulled them apart just so they weren't so compressed. Then she baked them into white cupcakes and frosted them so they looked appealing and completely innocent. Most people caught on with the first bite, but her cousin's boyfriend ate one whole. 
It was all we could do to stifle our laughter, but nobody said a word to him.
A guy I worked with years ago sent me on a scavenger hunt through our large office building when I couldn't find the car keys I'd left on my desk. The final clue was a note on my desk with 50 cents taped to it leading me to the cafeteria. One of the vending machines - the kind with the rotating buffet of food that you slide open the door and reach in to pull out your selection - contained my now well chilled car keys.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
Science-fiction author Robert Heinlein
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