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A metaphor for life?

The NFL draft dominated ESPN TV today. Sorry, I don't get it, and didn't watch a bit of it. What is so riveting about watching nothing happen for 15 minutes at a stretch, only to have that interrupted by watching someone step to the microphone and say a guy's name? And when I heard a sports analyst talking about it earlier in the week, and he said that some team might decide to "trade down" I knew that the draft involved subtleties that I don't understand and don't care to learn about. Why would anybody want to trade down?
"Here, I'll trade you my Mercedes SLR for your Plymouth Caravan."

A news headline on the WOODTV.com site read, "One shot at comic store robbery." My first reaction was that apparently if you go back and try to hold it up a second time they know you're coming.
Later they changed it to, "Clerk shot during comic store robbery."

This site is called Wonder How To and it's a collection of internet videos on how to do virtually anything. Go poke around. It really is crazy. You'll probably want to try something just because you saw how to do it.

In that same vein - because it can be done - Pam is crocheting a plastic grocery bag out of (are you ready?) plastic grocery bags.
Hey, I don't make 'em up, I just report 'em!
I think she took all of the plastic grocery bags she'd saved, cut them into strips and then tied those strips end-to-end for crocheting.
I figure the tensile strength of a plastic grocery bag is pretty high because you can load them down with quite a bit of weight. So what do you figure is the tensile strength of a bag like she's making? I asked her if it was for carrying bowling balls around.
I think this project must have something in common with the NFL draft. And maybe when she's done with this thing she'll trade it for used Kleenex or something.

Heilsgeschichte. What's yours?