There’s an old myth about ostrich hiding their heads in the sand. I decided to Google this topic one day and found they really don’t hide their heads when the going gets tough. Too bad, it was a nice analogy. In fact, today is one of those days when I wanted to do just that or crawl back into the bed and burrow under the covers. Maybe, if I don’t look out all my trials will disappear.
Last night I went into the kitchen and the floor was full of water. Upon investigation I found that the water heater was leaking. I started grabbing towels to soak up the water. I don’t have 40 gallons of water worth of towels. It took forever to clean up and it couldn’t possibly have been leaking more than 1-2 hours.
The water tank (Kenmore Power Miser 6) isn’t very old and I was hoping it was under warranty. I called the number on the tank and gave them the information. Just my luck, the warranty expired in 2007. Of course, they couldn’t be reasonable about it.
That’s not the only glitch in the day but no need to depress my faithful readers further. I’m pretty sure I have that covered enough for all of us today!
On a side note, I copied the following excerpt from the Phrase Finder:
Bury your head in the sand
Meaning: Refuse to confront or acknowledge a problem.
Meaning: Refuse to confront or acknowledge a problem.
Origin
This comes from the supposed habit of ostriches hiding when faced with attack by predators.
This comes from the supposed habit of ostriches hiding when faced with attack by predators.
The story was first recorded by the Roman writer Pliny the Elder, who suggested that ostriches hide their heads in bushes. Ostriches don’t hide, either in bushes or sand, although they do sometimes lie on the ground to make themselves inconspicuous. The ‘burying their head in the sand’ myth is likely to have originated from people observing them lowering their heads when feeding.
The story also relies on the supposed stupidity of ostriches, and of birds in general. In fact, there’s little to support that either as birds have a significantly larger brain to weight ratio than many other species of animal. The notion is that the supposedly dumb ostrich believes that if it can’t see its attacker then the attacker can’t see it. This was nicely reformed as a joke on Douglas Adams’ ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’, in which the ‘Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal’ was described as ‘so mind-bogglingly stupid that it assumes that if you can’t see it, then it can’t see you.’
Vicky you need to read my post on Walgreens – we had the same kind of day! blessings, marlene
I had four of those days in a row a while back. Four flats, four different tires, four days in a row. Pay day was nowhere in site. On the fourth day I walked away leaving my 97 ford explorer on the side of the road. I guess I was burying my head in the sand. I think people as a whole have only so much they can take before we can no longer take anymore. At that point we bury our heads in the sand so we have a chance to restart. Sometimes like in your case you weren’t able to just walk away from it. If you did it would ruin your floor. So later you may have ignored a different less urgent problem so you finally had the chance to reset yourself.