Handcars
I needed source material so I could incorporate an illustration of a handcar into something I was working on today.
You know what would have helped immensely? Actually knowing what the damned things were called. Or even working with people who know what they're called.
Instead, I wasted a huge amount of time miming the actions of people using a handcar on the railroad track and saying vague Catchphrase-esque sentences like, "You know, the thing! They use them on the train! And multiple people make it move with a handle they push up and down! THE THING!!!"
Carl can't blame this on my study of foreign languages; after all, how could they have expelled the English word from my brain, when I doubt highly the knowledge of what a handcar was called was ever there in the first place?
(Amusingly enough, my curiosity in seeing how much it would cost to buy a handcar on eBay just gave me the listing of a little cart for people to roll breast pumps on. Errrrr, what???)
You know what would have helped immensely? Actually knowing what the damned things were called. Or even working with people who know what they're called.
Instead, I wasted a huge amount of time miming the actions of people using a handcar on the railroad track and saying vague Catchphrase-esque sentences like, "You know, the thing! They use them on the train! And multiple people make it move with a handle they push up and down! THE THING!!!"
Carl can't blame this on my study of foreign languages; after all, how could they have expelled the English word from my brain, when I doubt highly the knowledge of what a handcar was called was ever there in the first place?
(Amusingly enough, my curiosity in seeing how much it would cost to buy a handcar on eBay just gave me the listing of a little cart for people to roll breast pumps on. Errrrr, what???)