Material Things

Hello, A new carry-on bag for flying seemed like a good thing. My current bag looks quite tired even though it still functions as it did before. It was checked in and that caused it to pick up many smears or streaks that I cannot clean off. I try to say that appearance does not mean very much, but once in a while, deep feelings come to the surface even though I have worked to tamp them down. The new “expensive” bag has come. The selling points were that it is expandable from under the seat size to over head compartment size in seconds. It also collapses to a small size for storage. As our life gets downsized, we should not need large bags, right? It fit all of the advertised criteria, but going from storage to usability and back takes more than seconds. Actually, it is still seconds, but when added together, it is probably minutes. I was imagining more speed. Leroy purchased new windshield wipers for his car. He tried unsuccessfully to get the old ones off. He looked at a video online to see how it was done, but no help for removal. He asked our downstairs friend to have a look. Even his great inventive brain could not remove this suborn wiper. Next, he asked his boss to stop by, since he works on cars. The boss came, expecting to get it done in short order. One side worked like it was supposed to. They ended up braking off the tenacious old one. Now, after a significant struggle and the input from two others, Leroy has new wipers installed on his car. Do material things control our live? Paula