Every time my friends and I sit around the campfire on the first night of a backpacking trip, the subject of tubes enters the conversation. I quickly recognize my que to briefly discuss the theory of tubes for all to enjoy. My friends quickly roll their eyes and move on to another subject. Here is the theory.Life is about tubes. Everything we do is about tubes.
In the morning we get out of bed. What is a bed? A blanket shaped like a tube which we put ourselves in each night. We get up, walk into the bathroom and turn on the shower. The water comes right out of a tube. We squeeze out the shampoo, which is in a tube. Next we might even relieve ourselves by pushing liquid waste through a tube or something else that is solid (see my blog about pooping). All this stuff gets flushed down a tube. I like brush my teeth with a thing shaped like a tube after I squeeze tooth paste (out of a tube) onto the brush.
Next I walk into the kitchen and open up a fridge, which contains all kinds of things packaged in tubes. I might open the milk and poor it into a glass. The milk bottle and glass are both tubes. I might then drink the milk and feel it go down a tube into my stomach compartment.
A few mornings ago, I drove to the airport in my car. What is a car if it isn't a tube on wheels? And an airplane? Definitely a tube with wings. Have you ever been in a large airport like Atlanta? The only way to get from terminal A to terminal B? Go underground and get on a tube-like train that goes through a tube-like tunnel.
Most of the stuff we use comes in a package. I was once told that a banana is the most effective package ever designed. You peel off the peel and eat the banana. A banana is contained inside of a tube. But that's a natural package. What about all the stuff we manufacture? We often unpackage subcomponents and assemble them with other subcomponents and then package them again into a component that is worth consumption. These are distruted in trucks that have a large square tube attached.
As you can see, this theory can go on and on and on and on ....
Since life is about tubes, all you have to do is talk about life and a tube will be part of the conversation.
