SOMETIMES STUCK

On a rainy afternoon, I spent an hour thinking about glue. So what do YOU think about on a rainy day?  

There are many different meanings when talking about glue. For instance, at a wedding someone might say about the groom, “Look at him. He’s really stuck on his bride.” A few years later that same person might say, “Look at him. Now, he’s stuck with her.” Unfortunately, sometimes a relationship can be defined by a wayward preposition.

On the other hand, it’s a fact that many times a family is held together by one person—the glue that keeps them all together. When that person dies, often the whole Kit and Caboodle become unstuck. And what about the egotist who’s stuck on himself?

Gerald Ford said that “Trust is based on integrity. It’s  the glue that holds the government together.” Unfortunately, he forgot to say it to Richard Nixon, which brings to mind that invisible (latent) finger prints can be made visible by Permabond Glue. Also, you can make women more beautiful by bonding fingernails and false eyelashes or gluing extensions on stringy hair.  And, in a TV advertisement, people glue their false teeth, so they can eat corn on the cob—even when it’s not in season.

For me, Gorilla Glue has become my best friend, but I learned early on to wear rubber gloves, since the first time I fixed a broken something, I ended up with only 3 usable fingers. Now my fingers are intact, and I have been able to help friends repair their broken items which sometimes helps to repair sweet memories.

Writing is a very solitary profession, and through the years I was often tempted, when facing a deadline, to glue myself to my chair.  If you think that being enamored with glue is strange remember the actor Michael Constantine, the loving Dad in the movie, MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING.  He used Windex Spray to cure all ills.

Here’s a bit of advice.  If you listen carefully to what people say, you will realize that some thoughts will stick like glue.

Esther Blumenfeld