Was at work today. Heh, for the life of me, I still can’t figure out how to use those side way can openers. You know, the types that take the whole top off the can, including a centimetre of the side. I grew up using the can openers that just take off the inner circumference of a can, what I’d term a top side can opener. My boss was laughing his head off, as I’ve been thought how to use it umpteen times already. I think I have forgotten after 3 weeks of holidays.

Just thinking it now, I started wearing laced school shoes when I was probably around eleven. It was also for the life of me that I could never figure out how to do it the ‘proper’ way (or rather, the way the majority of the populace does it). My aunt showed me the ‘alternative’ way to do it, and I picked it up immediately, as I found it so much less complicated. Until this day, I still haven’t figured out the ‘proper’ way shoe laces are tied.

That’s life for you in a sense, perhaps there are somethings you are never meant to be able to learn properly. If you can find an alternative way to do it, then at least you get the problem solved, which is the necessary thing in most cases. If you are stuck with the side way can opener and you are a top side can opener kind of person, then you are pretty much screwed and the can will probably remain unopened forever. Unless of course, you think radical and puncture a hole in the can to let the contents leak out.

Heh, good thing everyone else at the shop knows how to operate that darn thing.