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fuzzyredIf you go around enough bends, do you end up facing normal again?
Sitting at work (on afternoons this week) and not for the first time I am bargaining with the machines. Now, I talk to everything so this isn't strange in and of itself, but imagining the machines as having an inky, swirly mass as a spirit? Ones who feed off oil and dirt, and have different likes and interests and like treats?
Logic says it's just my imagination and they are figments I created to pass the time, but it doesn't feel like I made them up, they feel more like entities that have their own preferences. I'm not a writer, so I wouldn't know, but maybe this is how some authors feel about their characters? Or are their actually spirit beings in the machines that appreciate fluffy blankets, kind words, and various spices?
Sitting at work (on afternoons this week) and not for the first time I am bargaining with the machines. Now, I talk to everything so this isn't strange in and of itself, but imagining the machines as having an inky, swirly mass as a spirit? Ones who feed off oil and dirt, and have different likes and interests and like treats?
Logic says it's just my imagination and they are figments I created to pass the time, but it doesn't feel like I made them up, they feel more like entities that have their own preferences. I'm not a writer, so I wouldn't know, but maybe this is how some authors feel about their characters? Or are their actually spirit beings in the machines that appreciate fluffy blankets, kind words, and various spices?
Re: awwww!!!!!!!
Date: 2020-06-24 01:44 pm (UTC)I've sort of done a combination of that and pleading. "I know you're grumpy and don't want to do this but I need you to work so could you *please* behave? I'd really appreciate it." Which is usually followed by another problem, some frustration on my part before I try being nice again, and then usually it settles down.
Maybe the babysitter voice will be more effective.
I'm familiar with the "NO" moods. Seems like there are days when nothing goes right, but I can't really blame them; my company prefers the "lube and duct tape" solutions (sometimes literally) over preventitive maintenance. And then they wonder why they can't get the production numbera they want. *eye roll*