Obscure talents and functions....

Everyone has a variety of things they're Particularly Good At.

Some of them are good, some are bad. Probably most of them just are: no moral quality built in whatsoever.

Some are useful, some are not. And some it takes a long time to recognize as being a special function, something that one does that not everyone does.

I've realized that one of mine is providing a habitat for homeless itches. No Itch Left Behind.

The program's headquarters are right between my shoulder blades, with major subdivisions housing unfortunate itches established on both shoulder blades.

I've always found this to be somewhere between mildly irksome and downright irritating, depending on the aggression level of the itches involved, but that was a biased and self-centered view of the situation. Looking at it all from a different perspective---the perspective of the itch---it's a community service, and one for which I should be proud to suffer a bit from time to time.

So we smile, and put up that front when dealing with the itch community in public, and accept the Itchitarian Award.......

....and in the darkness of the night, when no one is looking, plot murder most vicious against the fiercest of the itches.......knowing that it will soon be forgotten and another itch will move into its home..........