Categories: drupal | knitting
Last night I found myself out for dinner with three lovable Drupal geeks (and the lovely wife of a Drupal geek). The food was decent, the chatter was fun, and our waitress was charming and funny.
After we had paid the bill, though, it became apparent that the Drupal conversation was far from over. And as much as I can handle a little geekery, I had a problem that was making me very uncomfortable. I had a stalled knitting project in my bag.
See, I'm making these mittens where you do the thumb last. So when you get to where the thumb will eventually go, you mark those stitches with a little length of "waste yarn". Then you continue knitting merrily, finish the body of the mitten, and then go back and remove the waste yarn to make your thumb.
So there I was, smack at the part where I needed waste yarn to continue, and I had nothing. I knew that I would be able to sit there happily for as long as they wanted to geek... but only if I was working on my mittens. Without that little bit of waste yarn though, I was going to have to leave. Soon. I was getting cranky and itchy, I swear to god.
Thankfully, the charming waitress came to my rescue with a ball of string and a pair of scissors. I think she thought I was a bit weird (well, it's true) but I managed to mark my thumb stitches, and then was free to knit away. The Drupal chatter continued around me for almost another hour, and I sat there, blissfully allowing it to wash over me, snickering to myself at times, and grateful to have such a wonderfully engaging and portable hobby.
"You should take up knitting," I said across the table to the lovely Drupal wife. "Yeah, maybe I should," she conceded. She must really love that man. ;)
