Re: Aurora

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 4:37 AM, Donna Scanlon <scanlon.donna@gmail.com> wrote:

> In any case, a woman who puts
> up with you screaming about corn subsidies at 1 in the morning is not
> a woman to patently abuse a textile instrument.

To be fair, it was more like a pronouncement.

> I once wrote a short short about a guy trying to hijack a plane that
> happens to be full of knitters/crocheters/weavers/spinners on the way
> back from a wool festival. When he threatens to set off a bomb in the
> hold, the prospect of all the yarn, fleece, spinning wheels, etc in
> their luggage being destroyed turns the passengers into a raging mob
> who swiftly overcome him as well as his confederates and truss them up
> with vintage acrylic yarn (circa 1973). Only the admission that the
> bomb threat was a bluff spares him. In the end, a sweet, white-haired,
> grandmotherly type offers him some advice: "Never fuck with the
> stash."

I LOVE it. I'm picturing someone using a circular needle as a garotte!

Kirsten