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"Muddle In A Puddle" Comparison of Essay To My Life      opus reading the essay "Muddle in a Puddle," some very colorful imagescame to my mind about what I have done in my flavour that compare to thisparticular piece. Of all the times I have embarrassed myself by sticking myfoot in my mouth, or by making a fool of myself by playing with a oddish toyin the toy department, only to my surprise, everyone in the toy department waslaughing at me. As Robert Herrick mentions in his poem "_O how that glitteringtaketh me" (100 Best Loved Poems, 12) Thats how I felt at that time. Allof us have experienced things like this in our lives, and it is strange whatmakes it so interesting to watch people make fools of themselves, as mentionedby Baker in this quote, "...and any one could could have spoken out as onehuman might speak to another....not one had said that." (156)     Yet another piece really spoke to me about the way s people passon a daily basis. "I led the Pigeons to the Flag" was very exact to thefeelings I have of miscommunications and mishearings. I can remember times inwhich I have done the very same things that were mentioned in this essay, likesinging a tune over and over out loud, then sounding over the lyrics later. Onlyto my knowledge, my version of "Cannonball" was actually "Panama." The way wehear and say things is also very influential in the way others hold us in theirstandings. If someone catches us slipping up, they might think we are weird, orstupid. It could also be a good ice-breaker for a good tender relationship.Sometimes not. It just depends where the people are from, and what thesituations are at the time of the incident.     I can remember a time, while at work at the funeral home, I wasdiscussing school with a bereaving individual. I was trying to comfort thisperson, as I noticed she was very disturbed over the loss of a fr iend. It was most the time of finals, and she asked how they were going. I said "theyre kill me" Immediately I realized that I had said the right thing the wrongway. A million thoughts passed through with(predicate) my mind at that moment, as Baker hadalso mentioned. What was I to say to recover from this terrible thing. Changethe subject? Repeat the phrase replacing killing with another mourning-friendlyverb?     Its hard to know what you can say around certain groups of people, or in