There are a lot of sayings that can be used when a person starts digging around and looking for things that are best left alone. Any of you who are regulars to my daily dose column already know that I have a tendency at times to bring things up that most people would rather not hear for some reason or another. I don’t know if that is because if they would actually learn something from it, then they might be inclined to do something with regard to what they learned or they would have to ignore it and live with the guilt of being too lazy to do something with the knowledge.
The actual digging around and sharing could be called “opening a can of worms” in some cases, but are worms really such a bad thing? If you or your pet has them in your intestinal tract then I would I agree that is a bad thing. I hate to watch people scratching their ass in public or the dog dragging theirs across the floor because they have worms.
On the other hand, worms can be a good thing, there have been plenty of times that I have been fishing and would have paid a premium price for a big can of fresh worms. Fish really seem to like fresh live worms, I don’t know exactly why, but when most of the artificial bait isn’t working, a live worm will.
But I didn’t mean to make this about worms, scratching asses, or catching fish so let’s get back to the subject, sayings.
Another saying for that digging around and sharing something that might be best left alone is “opening Pandora’s box”. I always had heard that term used and I know that it has something to do with mythology and the goddess Pandora. I also know that her box wasn’t a box but was a clay container but over the years and in translating from one language to another the container ended up being called a box and it has just kind of stuck with it since then.
Pandora’s box in mythology contained all kinds of sickness, disease, death and other evils. When she opened it those things all escaped into the world, had she left the box closed who knows what the world would be like today. But again, it is only a myth, so ….
The meaning as I understand the saying now is that to open a “Pandora’s box” is to start something that might cause some problems that would otherwise not happen. Basically exposing things that could cause some problems even if those problems might be unforeseen by the person doing the exposing.
The only businesses that I could find was a church and another building that looked like a church building but didn’t have a sign on it. There was one other little building and that building was a United States Post Office facility. Yes, the little town of Pandora has its own post office and zip code. Well that got me to thinking, which can be dangerous, that this might be a great business opportunity location for old sultnpapper when I decide to pick up the family and move.
On my next trip through Pandora I will have to go inside that post office and inquire about that two zip code thing, it might just be that I open a real “Pandora’s box” when I do that….
Until next time
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