ducktape

(An occasional series of photos where I allow desk mascot and trusty companion Bacon Sandwich to weigh in on the day’s events.)

When I lived in a half-trailer in Morgantown (this, of course, would be back when everybody at West Virginia University who didn’t live in Sunnyside or South Park pretty much lived in a trailer), I spent a summer living, in said half-trailer, with my best friend. She was taking classes at Fairmont State that summer, and moved in with me to make the commute easy and hang out and be a server at Garfield’s.

In this glorious 200 square feet of space, it seemed almost everything was in three states of existence: Broken, almost broken or at risk of being broken if someone looks at it funny. This included the front door, the air conditioner and the toilet.

And because we were as ghettofabulous as we were, everything we fixed, proudly, by ourselves, was fixed with that familiar look of silver duct tape.

Air conditioner’s leaking all over the phone? DUCK IT!

Front door knob about to fall off? DUCK IT!

Toilet won’t flush because the little chain keeps falling off? DUCK IT!

Our motto that summer, other than “If we get to Ponderosa around 3, we’ll totally be there in time for lunch and dinner items on the buffet and only have to pay the lunch price” was, “If you can’t duck it, f— it.”

And, now, 10 years later, I seem to get a roll of duct tape in the mail about once a month. The latest addition was the tie-dyed one. I’d like to think it’s some kind of cosmic way to remind me there’s always some way to fix a problem with relative ease, and if I can’t fix it, let it go. Pretty sound, if you ask me.

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