“What’s that leather thing in your guitar case?”
“Oh, that’s a pick wallet. It also has room for extra strings and a capo.”
“What about that thing shaped like a pick on your keychain?”
“It’s a pick case. Holds a few picks in case I’m somewhere and need a pick, but don’t have my pick wallet with me.”
“Well, what’s that round thing on your table?”
“Pick box. I keep a bunch of picks in there just in case I have neither the pick wallet, nor the pick case in the room.”
“And this wooden box thing on your desk?”
“Well, it was designed to be a paper clip holder, which is why it’s curved on the inside bottom, makes it easier to grab items in the box, but I use it for picks.”
“Why don’t you just keep them in your pockets?”
“Because they get lost that way.”
“Seems you have an awful lot of pick storage things. It must be an expensive chore to keep them all filled.”
“Oh, I get them for free. Picks spontaneously appear in my washer and dryer. Every load of wash seems to generate them. It’s like, washers and dryers have spontaneous combustion, only instead of fire, they make picks. It’s purely science, of course. In fact, the spontaneous appearance of picks in my washer and dryer led to a deep understanding of the argument that the entire universe spontaneously came into being from a single particle.”
“Seems impossible.”
“That’s what my wife says. Her theory is that the washer and dryer use the material from the socks that disappear to create the picks.”
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