Abandoned Draft Version:
The first neuron feels an electric charge, and when the charge builds up enough that person discharges all the distress to the next neuron down the line. Eventually when enough energy is discharged, you will have activity: a muscle moves, an eyelid blinks.
Here’s how most families work. Certain people are nerves. Certain people are muscles. The nerves pass electrical impulse betweem them. A charge builds up, it becomes too much for one nerve to bear, and the electical excitement is discharged to the next nerve down the line. The first nerve feels great then, of course, and takes a nap, leaving the next nerve to unload on nerve number three, and on and on.
Eventually the last nerve unloads on a muscle, and the muscle jumps from all the nervous energy that’s been amplified down the line. The muscle does something – usually what the nerves tell it to do.
Gary’s a nerve. There is no question.
Present Day:
… and I must be the muscle? I think this was a long way of saying that Gary believes “a problem shared is a problem halved.”