Bar the anecdote about the child & the pool, I might have written this myself…

Which given my conversation earlier this morning with a friend who may as well be using a different language entirely, and our consequent communication struggles, was both soothing and amusing.

Forget just now which writer said “There is no such thing as the perfect sentence”, but it seems apt enough here for now.

I seem to have posted this twice, but neither is showing on my profile, and they are not visible to me on the “chat” group. It also says “cross-posted to: chat”, but I didn’t cross-post. I don’t know what is going on, nor what will happen if I delete one of them (are they really two posts?). If there’s a mod around, can you maybe merge the two posts? Thanks.