“Well, try to remember it, George. Don’t forget and tell me it’s Elexander before you go, and then get out by saying it’s George Elexander when I catch you. And don’t go about women in that old calico. You do a girl tolerable poor, but you might fool men, maybe. Bless you, child, when you set out to thread a needle don’t hold the thread still and fetch the needle up to it; hold the needle still and poke the thread at it; that’s the way a woman most always does, but a man always does t’other way. “
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
I think of that scene every time I thread a needle. Now I will think of it every time I successfully clean up on a low commode.
I was trying to move Part A toward the much larger Part B, but now I am keeping Part A immobile and moving big old Part B where it needs to be. Like a man, but that’s how I thread needles too.