Abbe’s Ruminations March 2020–Nose Picking Old Sayings Finally Understood

Welcome to my newsletter, Abbe’s Ruminations. I mull, contemplate, ponder – old and new experiences, finding what I call the joy and laughter of repetition or the abandonment to not knowing.

An old saying, somewhat gross, sticks in my head. I think it came from my funny and secretly wise father.

“You can pick your nose, you can pick your friends, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose.”

Besides being yucky, I see the wisdom of his words.  Although he jokingly told this to me in elementary school, the words hit home when I was in high school.  Peer pressure pushed me to the outskirts of the “in” groups.  I shied away, awkward more a reader than a social butterfly.

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