Tack
Words
Last weekend I learned to differentiate between tactile and tactful. In short, tactile is referring to sense of touch or good with the hands while tactful is about being considerate and discreet.
To make it easier for me to remember, I use thumbtacks. If you give a box of thumbtacks to a tacktile person, he or she could make an art out of them. However, if you are not tactful with that same person, you might get some thumbtacks stuck on your b-u-t-t… That is the easiest way for me to remember…
Memories
Thumbtacks bring back memories during my junior high years. My friends and I were in a class where our brains were more dominant than our muscles. We had a huge problem during the lunch break at the school cafeteria as the other boys from the other classes somehow had their muscles developed much faster than their brains.
We were taught to queue for our food and they were taught the same but somehow, due to some unexplained events, those teaching about being civilized such as, taking turns by queuing up, failed to stick in their head. I guess brains and muscles have different ways of learning stuffs…
As a results, those students would dash to the food counter like bulls on a stampede. Before we knew it, we were pushed to the sides and everywhere else except anywhere near the food…
Khidhir
Lauren
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