Ice Cubes
Why do some of the ice cubes pop right out while other ones stick to the side of the tray? Mom said you would know.
———- from Jenny Feldmann ofCross Villiage, MI
Making generalizations about ice cubes is insulting to the ice cube and reflects just as poorly on your level of enlightenment as making generalizations about different races or cultures. An old ice cube adage goes “16 cubes in a tray, 16 different rhomboids”. Another goes “No angle is really 90 degrees, especially when you deal with water”. No one ever said ice cubes were poetic, but they do have a tolerance for diversity that you apparently lack. Maybe if you could see things from an ice cube’s perspective it would help you escape from the narrow prison of your own mind. Find a walk in freezer and spend a few minutes with the door shut, imagining life in an indented blue plastic tray.
Making generalizations about ice cubes is insulting to the ice cube and reflects just as poorly on your level of enlightenment as making generalizations about different races or cultures. An old ice cube adage goes “16 cubes in a tray, 16 different rhomboids”. Another goes “No angle is really 90 degrees, especially when you deal with water”. No one ever said ice cubes were poetic, but they do have a tolerance for diversity that you apparently lack. Maybe if you could see things from an ice cube’s perspective it would help you escape from the narrow prison of your own mind. Find a walk in freezer and spend a few minutes with the door shut, imagining life in an indented blue plastic tray. 