The Fifth Wheel
I know there's a saying about being a fifth wheel. It's all about not fitting in, being needed, and all that awkwardness. But imagine if you will... mixing that with the tale of the Ugly Duckling, and instead of being a fifth wheel... you're more like a twenty-fifth wheel.
At first, you feel all mildly important and all. Oh yea, you'll be on the car despite not really being necessary or in use immediately or whatnot. But you'll be backup, a feature! Decorative in the very least. You'll add shape and style to the car mounted on the side!
Only then you have a meeting with the other car parts. Not only have most of them been doing the work of 3 or 6 parts of the car... but they've been doing things like this for years! And rather than having had to talk their way into being called a 'part of the car'... They either got recruited for their skills and abilities, or they actually qualified for what they're doing now, and sought the position out.
Doesn't sound so bad yet, does it?
That's because I'm not done describing it.
Not only have you never been part of a car before, you get to learn how to be a wheel all on your own. Someone said something about attaching you to the car too, but right now you're sort of sitting in the garage off to the side watching what little you can see from here. The other parts are taking pictures of the car and sharing them with each other, but you don't have the clearance to see. There's a few other 'wheel-like' parts that kept talking about being done this month, but you've only just got here. Still, on the plus side in that regard, I'm fairly certain that they were only talking about portions being done... I hope anyway.
Everything I've said so far came out of that meeting of car parts. I'm guessing which parts did wheel-functions. Oh, and I almost forgot to mention, I got to stand up in front of the meeting and give a progress report on myself. Which consisted mostly of 'I don't know what I'm doing yet'.
I hate feeling sorry for myself
At first, you feel all mildly important and all. Oh yea, you'll be on the car despite not really being necessary or in use immediately or whatnot. But you'll be backup, a feature! Decorative in the very least. You'll add shape and style to the car mounted on the side!
Only then you have a meeting with the other car parts. Not only have most of them been doing the work of 3 or 6 parts of the car... but they've been doing things like this for years! And rather than having had to talk their way into being called a 'part of the car'... They either got recruited for their skills and abilities, or they actually qualified for what they're doing now, and sought the position out.
Doesn't sound so bad yet, does it?
That's because I'm not done describing it.
Not only have you never been part of a car before, you get to learn how to be a wheel all on your own. Someone said something about attaching you to the car too, but right now you're sort of sitting in the garage off to the side watching what little you can see from here. The other parts are taking pictures of the car and sharing them with each other, but you don't have the clearance to see. There's a few other 'wheel-like' parts that kept talking about being done this month, but you've only just got here. Still, on the plus side in that regard, I'm fairly certain that they were only talking about portions being done... I hope anyway.
Everything I've said so far came out of that meeting of car parts. I'm guessing which parts did wheel-functions. Oh, and I almost forgot to mention, I got to stand up in front of the meeting and give a progress report on myself. Which consisted mostly of 'I don't know what I'm doing yet'.
I hate feeling sorry for myself