How you handle sticky situations can tell the world a lot about who you are and how you will be in other sticky situations.
People want to get a sense of whether you will gum up the works or not. They want information they can chew on without feeling they have to immediately spit it back out.
If you want to get rid of those unpleasant qualities that you have been carting around for years---how about considering symbolically going down to the Pike Market in Seattle and finding Post Alley and sticking them on the infamous Gum Wall. When you walk by the wall and smell the cornucopia of gum flavors that have come from all around the world you can perhaps leave yours there as well.
I can not think of a more colorful way to deal with a sticky situation.
I think even Jackson Pollock would approve.
Charles Buell, Seattle Home Inspector
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Hi Charles....colorful....but very germy....yuck...
Wow Charles.... I don't know if I should be disgusted or look at that with an artist mind... All I know is I am not sticking my chewed gum on that wall if it means toucing someone else's chewed gum in the process...Unless I have some purell with me... Then maybe.. :)
How interesting Charles - the pictures fit the topic pefectly. Very creative. I bet it's a real show stopper seeing it. I just posted a post on doing the right thing - and your post was the first one that caught my eye afterwards - couldn't be more perfect.
Oh Charles - "I am not amused" YUCK as the Queen would say...
Wow a wall of chewed gum, who thought of that, who turned it from a de-facing of property to a work of art?
Hi Charles, I was walking passed one of the shops and noticed a poster about the gum wall...but didn't realize it actually existed! Love the way you tied this in with your post. It was really nice to meet you at RainCamp!
Barbara, I find that a lot of people have that reaction
Stacey if you look close you will notice that most people are very careful to push in the center of the gum so that they can avoid touching anyone else's gum :)
Anna, it is really amazing---here is another picture where even a wire near the wall is covered with gum. This wall represents a LOT of people.
Gay, come on---you know you would stick a hunk on there :)
Navona, it has become such a landmark at this point that it is likely to be around for a while
Cindy, same here---raincamp is great. And yes---the wall is for real :)
Charlie - OMG! I can't believe I missed this landmark! You were holding out on me.
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Sally, may the force be with you :) I did mean to post it to the group---I have corrected my mistake
Charles---Never heard of the landmark...don't know that I'd make a effort to do see it either. Is it in the Guiness Book? What would happen if you bumped into that wall on a hot day? You'd probably never be able to walk away!
Oh, I have so been there and so done that. And even added to the wall! I don't remember the drippy window sill though...
Before our internet date, I did other stuff. I knew you woulnd't mind.
ewwwwww there is a gum wall in south-west Ohio, I want to say at a restauarant. I read a blog post about it on ActiveRain years ago....
I think seeing this IRL would make me gag. I think the smell of gum would make me gag. In fact your pictures are so good, I feel my gag reflex starting to.... ewwwwwww.
I'm with Maureen, I can't stand gum, not the smell of it, not the sight of it, not the thought of it. I would be running and screaming, LOL.
Now let me go and compose myself...
Interesting place to visit?
I gotta get rid of this gum, maybe I'll start a wall here. :)
yuck yuck yuck...I don't want to gum up anything!
What!? You didn't show me the gum wall. How disapointing. :)
Kirsten---what is a hot day? :) In Seattle?
Jay, thanks for telling me :)
Maureen the smell is really amazing
Andrea, I love all the different reactions people have to the wall
Tom, it would be interesting to know just how the whole craze started
Shannon---not even the Gum Wall? :)
Jim, I know---I apologize---huge oversight on my part
Charlie - Okay, so it is a little yucky....I think it's pretty cool too. I'm trying to imagine how it got so out of control, but Still....Kinda cool. It looks like art to me (but I wouldn't want to touch or smell it).
Amy, I too want to know how it got started. It is around the entrance to a theatre---so perhaps just patrons looking to ditch their gum before the show.
Funny.