Have you ever taken the time to ponder the different types of glue that are used regularly in our day-to-day lives?
Now, you might be thinking, "Who cares about glue?" Well, we should care because glue is used in many products we come into contact with. In fact, I challenge you to avoid it.
We have glue in automotive, marine, aeronautical..........indeed most equipment has glue somewhere in it. Granted, this glue goes way beyond the white-bottle-with-the-orange-cap kind we used as children in school, but glue, is glue, is glue. Some glue just has stronger adhesive properties than others.
You-Tube and the Funniest Videos television show abound with clips showing people and animals unlucky enough to come into uncontrolled contact with a super-glue type adhesive. If you have ever had your fingers glued as one, you will remember that affixing them together was the easy part. Prying them apart might have been very painful.
Sometimes Mother Nature has her own method of glue: Ice. Did you ever plant your tongue on metal in winter and immediately realize what a mistake that was? Another natural glue is electricity. If you have ever (I have.) grabbed onto a live electric fence, you will find that you may as well have glued yourself to it. Not only are you stuck there but you are in pain, too!
There is the unseen, human-type glue that bonds people together, either cohesively in a group with common ideals and goals, or in pairs, much like the animals going two-by-two onto the ark in the Biblical story of Noah and the Flood. This human-bonding glue is quirkier than industrial glue. Whereas industrial glue has a miniscule fail rate, human-bonding glue has much higher rate of failure.
Perhaps, instead of the unseen glue used to bond humans, we should consider utilizing a type of industrial glue, liberally and literally applied to all or both parties. The rock group, Huey Lewis and the News, got it right with their song, "Happy To Be Stuck With You".
Which, in conclusion, brings me to the best glue of all - in this author's opinion. That is the stickiness that is created when a sugary substance melts and manifests itself with either sticky fingers, surfaces, pages, shoe soles........whatever it comes into contact with. Removing this glue can actually be fun and may even taste good - i.e. melted chocolate. Plus, removing this glue doesn't rent the fabric of any individual's or any group's life.
Yet another good use for chocolate..........................
Ancora imparo
