08-01-2010, 02:29 PM
Sumpter250 said ...
Go on, make fun of my "slightly different" vocabulary ... I'm used to it!
My daughter's mother and I were remodeling our kitchen, in our first home together and when I picked up some tiles that she had placed on the floor to see how it would look, and I put them down in a different arrangement, saying, "I think it wants to be like this," she said,
"IT doesn't want to be any way ... it's a floor tile! Boy, am I glad there's no one around to hear you talk that way ... normal people just don't say things like that!"
She had never been around product designers or architects before me. 
"Sometimes, all it takes is for someone to show how a "medium" can be used, ...
Go on, make fun of my "slightly different" vocabulary ... I'm used to it!
My daughter's mother and I were remodeling our kitchen, in our first home together and when I picked up some tiles that she had placed on the floor to see how it would look, and I put them down in a different arrangement, saying, "I think it wants to be like this," she said,
"IT doesn't want to be any way ... it's a floor tile! Boy, am I glad there's no one around to hear you talk that way ... normal people just don't say things like that!"
She had never been around product designers or architects before me.
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln