A recent experience made me think about those “ridiculous” units of measurement that are sometimes used.
What am I talking about? For example, on a brewery tour the guide might say “here at this brewery we brew enough beer every week to fill three Olympic swimming pools”. A quick search tells me that an Olympic swimming pool is about 2,500,000 litres, so what the guide is trying to say is that the brewery brews 7,500,000 litres of beer a week. But for some reason there is a whole world of ridiculous measurements out there.
This is where my thoughts on ridiculous measurements and my experience collide.
Kate is still experiencing a period of reduced mobility. She is rigid through the back thanks to her extension corset that was fitted after her ski accident. What this means is she can’t bend. So things that land or are on the floor become my domain. It is not uncommon for me to come home from work to find a plethora of things on the floor that she can’t pick up. She has taken to using the long BBQ tongs to do her bidding though, so most things are within the reach of her tongs.
Friday I came home to this.
Usually I would think that the spider was in the clothes bin, but I was told it was under the bin.
We live in the UK. We come from Australia. Many spiders in Australia contain enough poison to kill 11 football teams. Or 96 sheep. Personally I have never heard of the experiment where they tested these ridiculous units of measurement… Anyway, now that we live in the UK, the most poisonous spider has enough poison to slightly inebriate an infant mosquito. We therefore tend to run a “catch and release” program, hoping to have the spiders we find rid this island of all the mosquito’s. They have an uphill battle given their poison content eh?
So what had happened was, while in the bathroom, Kate spotted this spider. Unable to do the “catch and release” thing herself, it was added to my list of things to do at ground level.
Let’s hope that my good deed reduces the mosquito population here in the UK. Summer is coming, or so I’m told…