The characters in my strip are most decidedly NOT me. (Okay, the woman in panel four of the "Library" strip is loosely based on me--when I'm in the library during my lunch hour I just want to be left alone!) But otherwise, the characters are not me and and I am not the characters.
HOWEVER. For the longest time, I thought the saying "A stitch in time saves nine" made no sense whatsover, because I thought it was about a stitch into TIME itself. My misinterpretation only declined from there. When I realized my mistake--and my realization was embarrassingly belated--I felt pretty silly. :)
(Similarly, I misread "I want to be in that number" in "When the Saints Go Marching In" well into adulthood and still hate the song because it led me astray like that.)
Ah, well; look at the bright side...there are probably people who still don't get it. I can think of someone right now who lives in a suburb of North Bay, Ontario who's still asking how time can be sewn.
ReplyDeleteI can think of someone right now who lives in a suburb of North Bay, Ontario who's still asking how time can be sewn.
ReplyDeleteAnd why she can't get a tailor who's willing to do that time-stitching for her. Can't get good service these days! ;)