My skills at throwing trash are not directly correlated with
my skills on a basketball court. Nor are my skills at throwing screwed up
napkins into cups. So if I do by chance miss from time to time the, “Oh and you
play basketball?” comment would not be missed.
Comments
like these are comparable to telling people how to do their job. Unless you are
indeed an expert, keep your mouth shut. And if for some reason you are an
expert at throwing trash – I care not for your advice, as I have real goals.
If you
accidentally stutter as we all can at times, it is unlikely that I will say, “Oh
and you’re a speech pathologist?” If you ask me if I want anything from the
store and I say, “Yes! Baby cheeses!” and you bring back a little baby Jesus, I
will not say, “Oh and you work at the drive-thru at McDonalds.” These examples
don’t do it for me though. Excuse me while I think of something a little more
relevant.
Something
a little more along the lines of the trash-basketball impasse might be if a
mechanic was driving on a highway and broke down. He looks under the hood and
comes to realize that he cannot do anything about the problem and consequently
he calls AAA. His friend riding with him says, “I thought you were a mechanic.”
Yes, he is a mechanic. And when he is at work he has tools, spare parts, a pit,
and an ENTIRE WORKSHOP. The environment is totally different. Just like when I
play basketball, I play on a hardwood court, with a size 7 ball filled with air
and I aim it at a hoop 10 feet in the air. I’m not throwing an arbitrary object
that can weigh something different every time at a different target every time.
So it’s not the same. I would not even call the two alike.
Stop
questioning my athletic ability by judging my trash throwing skills. I do not
work for the sanitation department, nor do I intend to.
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