Individual Wrench
Sometimes it’s difficult to express your individuality when you’re part of a group. But you can if you try hard enough.
Our artist friend Cha from Dontchawannadream painted a very imaginative Christmas scene with her two adopted Wombies, Vanille and Coco, as gingerbread Wombies. You can see the original Gingerbread Wombies post on Cha’s Dontchawannadream blog.
A noncorming wrench is not what you want. He’ll get hammered by the bullies and screwed by the plumber 🙁
That would be ” non conforming” . Damn those sticky keys. This is what happens when wombats sneeze over my computer!!!! OK, it may be due to my sticky wine gum fingers too 😉
So that’s where all my wine gums went!
I don’t know if tools get bullied or not. Maybe they do.
Oh but they do! I’ve seen my husband toss them all the time.
Oh those poor tools!
I know, he picks them up, then cleans them, but, well you know how that sort of thing goes.
I hope he talks nicely to them!
Well, he doesn’t say anything bad to them directly, but has blurted out obscenities before.
I hope they have earplugs!
Big ones!
I have seen a few hammers get belted.
They get hammered a lot, too.
Hmm, lets just hope the other wrenches don’t fart.
I don’t think wrenches do that.
Wretched wrenches?
Wretched wrenches without wenches.
Sad state of affairs that.
That must be the “quiet desperation” part.
That maybe why he was looking the other way 🙁
Probably was, poor thing.
At least he stands out in a crowd.
Sort of like me!
You just have to be your own kind of wrench.
I try to be! I think I’m a pretty good wrench, actually.
I wouldn’t stand for a rebellious wrench in my shed. Tools toe the line or they’re out. I bet he does all sorts of nonconformist stuff too like trying to put in screws & hitting nails. I bet he only ever wants to tighten nuts & bolts with left hand threads too. The world is in enough mess without rebel tools being let on the loose.
I never thought about all that! Maybe that wrench is secretly doing all that stuff late at night when we’re all sleeping. I better not turn my back on him!
It sounds like a rebellion 🙁
Now I’ve got to worry about a wrench rebellion!
I hope that all the other tools don’t join in 🙁
I better make sure I lock the garage at night! This could be dangerous!
They would just take it off the hinges.
Noo!! They would, wouldn’t they! Now I won’t be able to sleep at night!
I think Binky will have to
make you a shield just in
case 🙂
Maybe he can make me a tool-proof vault to sleep in, too.
Oooo…
it’s so tempting!
I mean… it just makes me want to…
if I could just… *bites knuckles*… such a small adjustment and…
🙂
I think if you put him back in the right way, he’d turn around again just to be different.
When I was a teen, I took pride in being a noncomformist. I’m not sure where that spirit went.
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I don’t know. Maybe you should get some rebel wrenches.
I prefer to lead a public life of desperation.
That’s kind of like me!
Just like that wrench, people and Wombies should just be themselves and not give a rat’s patootie what others think.
Now I needs someone to fix me a milkshake, I haven’t had time to fix my own yet this morning!
I’m always me and no one else!
I’ll fix you a milkshake! You can have one with the pancakes I made for you!
Thank you, Winky! I needed that, including the pancakes. Think I’ll put some extra syrup on it too.
I brought you a chocolate fudge cake…Tink and Cookie made it!
Oh boy, I needed some cake! Thanks!
I wanted to make if for you. It’s the first time I ever baked before. I hope you liked it.
It was delicious! You can bake for me anytime, Cookie!
Okay, I’ll for you again really soon! Right now Tink is making you fudge cookies and mom is making a big batch of Milkshakes for you. They should be here soon! 🙂
I can’t wait! My tummy is going to be very very happy!
Okay, Winky! Tink and I got is all done. She made you 8 dozen extra fudge and extra soft and chewy fudge cookies and I made 2 gallons of super thick chocolate fudge swirl milkshakes with a pile of ground toffee chips blended in…and New Wombie straws for all of you!
It’s time for a Party then! Twink will bring some pancakes and I’ll bring chocolate! We’re sure to have a good time with all those cookies and milkshakes!
Where is Twink anyway ?I want to meet her. Tink told me you hold her hostage in the kitchen.
No, I just like to cook for my boys! And that way I can get Winky to do most of the cleaning which I despise. And I do lots of painting, too. I’m sure Deb will be able to teach you that if you like art.
I was only kidding when I said that about you being held hostage….sorry. I just wanted to meet you.
She’s been teaching me a few things. If fun, I like it!
Chewy and Dink do the dishes at my house too!
That’s not nice to trick people, Cookie. Don’t do that anymore.
That’s okay. I’m used to Winky and Fraz and all their shenanigans. We can all have a big get together soon. And then we’ll have some real special treats!
I like treats 🙂
You’re invited, too, Gray!
Thank you I am honoured 🙂
And hopefully stuffed!
Make him just like all the other wrenches. Life is so much easier when you are a conformist…
Is it? I wouldn’t know.
Me, too, neither.
I don’t think I could be normal if I wanted to be.
Normal is a setting on the dryer. Who wants to lead the life of an appliance? Even your wrench does not.
I don’t think I’d want to be an appliance. Well maybe the fridge. It gets stuffed with food!
I am lost!! what are you two talking about? one misplaced wrench and now it’s a new philosophy *sigh*
Sorry, I guess this one’s a little obscure, projecting human qualities onto a non-animate object. It was about how people, or things, might subtly express their uniqueness in a conformist society.
hhhmmm…. Uncle Peter…please forgive my young brain. I have to ask mommy the meaning of your explanation.
Sorry again! I hope mommy’s explanation of my explanation makes some sense to you.
I knew about rebel wenches and such, but not wrenches… until now… wrenches, lives of quiet desperation… seems like some folk might call him a tool for that!!! Or is that why he quietly despairs – because he is called a tool?!?!?
Life sure gets confusing sometimes…
🙂
Wow, I don’t know. I know that confused me. I think we need to have some chocolate to try to figure it all out.
excellent suggestion, Winky!!
🙂
Chocolate is almost always a good suggestion!
I love it. Some folks don’t want to be just another one of the many. They want to stand out. I like that.
Have a fantastic day. 🙂
Some folks and some Wombies and even some wrenches like to stand out.
Wow, there’s more than meets the eye to the Wench World! 😀
Those wrenches have a lot going on that we don’t know about!
I remember when Cha painted that Christmas picture. It’s adorable and very original!
It was a great idea and painting. Who wouldn’t like some Wombie cookies!
Wow quite the imagination.
If you watched your tools at night, you might be surprised at what they do!
im a wench without a wrench but i like to be unique and different its those who pretend to be something they are not that make me choke on my gob stoppers or choccy drops right thats it im off to get hammered lol
I like to be me and I like to eat! Even if some people might think I’m a wrench.
your a nice little winky the only winky i know lol ive seen chocolate tools before
I’ve eaten chocolate tools before! They were yummy!
Man Cub got white and dark chocolate tools for Christmas.
He was lucky! I bet they didn’t last long.
The desperation leads to happiness!
My desperation leads to chocolate.
I knew someone who married a wrench… whoops I meant wenc….oh never mind
He must have been a tool! Hahaha!
I wonder if it is the same for screwdrivers?
Screwdrivers can be pretty tricky, too. They’re always disappearing!
And they are always doing things besides screwing.
Yeah. Like running away from me.
Is that better than quiet perspiration?
I don’t know. But it’s probably less stinky.
Funny story. Personally it would drive me nuts if one wrench was in the wrong way. Conform, darn you! 😛
I like things to be in order too! But some wrenches just don’t like to fit in!
It is a gripping tale with these wrenches!
With many surprise twists and turns!
Talk about a wrench in the spokes.
There’s always one that gets out of line.
That wrench is nobody’s tool.
And I thought he was my tool!
So, Winky, did you ask him if the view was better?
No. He didn’t seem to want to talk.
Ha! They do have a different way of viewing the world don’t they?
Especially those wrenches that don’t fit in!
if your wrench dont fit fix it winky if something or someone is out of place then kick it into space or put in its place then sit down and open an early easter egg yum
I try to keep things in order but it never seems to work! I’ll have the Easter egg, though.
there’s nothing wrong with being a non-conformist wench!
Oh wait.
Or a non-conformist Winky!
Heyyy.
What a surprise. 😉 Thanks for sharing my painting.
Loved this philosophical post. 🙂
Xxx
You’re welcome, Cha. It was a very imaginative painting!
I like that one too Cha 🙂 xxxx
So do I, Cha. 🙂
thank YOUUUU 🙂
xoxo
Your most welcome, Cha!
where would we be if we didn’t have the quizzical wonderings of you wombies to help us find the answers to all of the life puzzles! guess if would leave more time for chocolate eating.
I never let my thinking get in the way of my chocolate eating! But I do wonder about things sometimes.
I’m afraid he’s “screw”-ed now. He’d better “bolt”.
And run away like rest of my tools.
Wow! Humor from wrenches, that is cool!
Wrenches can be pretty funny.
That reminds me. I need to go fix something. 🙂
Maybe you can fix mine, too.
They live the lives with twist and turns.
I bet they go in circles a lot, too!
It´s a hard life, being a wrench.
It’s hard being a Winky, too!