My west coast brother informs me that today is "Edge Day." He also shared with me his favorite bit of edge humor - "They're edgy, like a pizza cutter, all edge, no point." I guess edge humor isn't abundant.
But thinking about edges, and I guess this is the day to do that, I've heard some sad stories about edges. The saddest of those involve people taking selfies while standing too close to an edge of the Grand Canyon. There are no good results when you plunge over one of those edges.
Actually, I think that cell phones are much more to blame than cliffs, wherever they are located. It may have happened but I really don't remember people standing at the edge of a cliff trying to take a selfie with a traditional camera.
But there are other kinds of edges. Have you ever had a paper cut? From the edge of a piece of paper, right? Knife edges can inflict the same sort of damage or worse. The more I think about it the more I realize that many edges aren't really great things.
So why exactly is today "Edge Day?" I don't know. Perhaps it's a cautionary day, not a celebratory day.
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