Lessons from the Spanish Armada
If we can't learn from the lessons that history teaches us, then there's a high school class whose only purpose it is to keep students from committing boredom-related crimes between Gym and Calculus.
Today's long-winded point is brought to you by the Spanish Armada. Need an armada but don't have the time to assemble one after work? Try the Spanish Armada! Corporate discounts available.
The 16th century Spanish had a lot of ships, and when enemies looked at the sheer number of ships, they were overwhelmed. They seemed invincible. In fact, the English called them the Invincible Fleet, mostly because the English have a different name for everything, and the way that the Royals pronounce "Canada" makes it sound like they're saying "Canader." But then the English beat them, or at least kept them from accomplishing their goal, with fewer ships and sailors.
Here's my point: throughout any given day over the past three weeks, I've had to repeatedly hand Margo off to Donna because I couldn't/didn't have the skills to calm her down. It seems overwhelming at times, because a wailing baby makes everything more desperate and urgent. But it just takes that one time, late at night, when she begins to whimper in her sleep, lathering herself up to some quality crying, and I softly stroke her hair and she calms down. Crisis averted. Able father status returned. Spaniards returned to Spanish harbours. English singing nah-nah-nah-nah, hey hey hey, goodbye.
Good times... good times.
- Michel
p.s. this doesn't apply to times when Margo's wearing her "I ♥ boobies" ballcap. My abilities can only go so far. To extend the analogy, the English only had minor victories against the Armada; half the Spanish ships were sunk by very bad weather. Cheat notes: bad weather = boobies.
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