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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Just Saying

So, the phone rang at 9:30 this morning. I picked it up at my desk in the back office. "Hello, I know you open at 10," a man's voice began. "But - if I happened to be standing outside your door, and if I happened to know exactly what I wanted . . . . " "Are you standing outside our door?" I asked. "Yes." "Of course I'll open," I said - and 5 minutes later, he was happily on his way with a Newton's Cradle for his elementary school class. One minute to open the door, one minute for me to find out what he wanted and go get it, one minute for him to buy it - and two minutes for us to talk about what a cool thing a Newton's Cradles is. Just want to say - I don't think he would have had the same luck at Target . . . . or Walmart . . . or a department store . . . or even the local mall. It's nice to be able to be flexible - and to say yes instead of no!
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2 comments:

  1. Tom PhillipsApril 12, 2013 at 12:59 PM

    What's a Newton's Cradles? (I see the picture but what does it do?)

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  2. SteveApril 17, 2013 at 5:07 PM

    Once you get it started - by pulling one ball on the end back and then letting it go - the action just keeps going, from one side to the other, like a prepetual motion machine. Someone can probably explain it better...it's possible that gravity is involved - but it seems like magic.

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