Jerry -- I use a weedwhacker ('course I have a small lawn, too....) That way if one of those blades tries tojump up and sass me, man, I'm all over it right there and then!! ZAP!!!

As for your thesis, I think what happens is that we take a lot of picturtes of those we see behaving when we are trying to put together our own machinery, and understandably that meansd a lot of pictures of those who raise us. THey make up our personal Book of Strategies to draw on when facing the unknown.   I know I have adopted not just phrases and physical habits buit whole little mental loops from those I saw my Dad using, or at least my impression of what they were.

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