Today I taught a sewing class. Only one person showed up. I like it when that happens because I actually get to interact with the person rather than just talking to a bunch of people who are hard to separate out into individual beings.
I was teaching this very sweet lady how to use her sewing machine and promising her that she couldn’t break it. She just couldn’t.
So I did it for her.
It’s always embarrassing when they find out that what I’d been saying to make them feel confident about their abilities (and it is really hard to break these machines) isn’t true. It is, indeed, very difficult to break the machine. If, however, you make a stupid mistake that you wouldn’t make at home because I wouldn’t be there to interrupt and confuse things, well, then you can break the machine.
All that really happened was that we stripped a screw. Is that what you call it? When you strip the part that accepts the screw? That’s the part we stripped. And it’s attached to the rest of the machine.
Ah well. By the end of the class, she was happy with me again. I’ll see her again next Monday. We’ll learn all kinds of glorious things. Oh! So glorious!
Posted by dotty at June 6, 2005 11:22 PM