"Tropical Depression" 0.99 on Amazon Kindle https://www.amazon.com/Tropical-Depression-Opposite-Reactions-Trilogy-ebook/dp/B0BTPN7NYY/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Learning The Ropes Of Slime...Continued from the previous post: I oh-so-carefully wrapped, then tucked between layers of clothes in my suitcase, the precious containers of slime that I'd purchased, mostly from Five Below, ...to bring as gifts to my grand daughters when my mate Tom and I traveled to Los Angeles to visit them. As my daughter Theresa had predicted (see previous post, https://www.ailantha.com/blog/slime-101), her nieces did, in fact, love the slime products I brought for them. They dove into the Dreidel Dreams, which was a lovely shade of blue over a layer of white, ...until they decided to mix it with the Red Velvet slime, ...to change the color of the Dreidel Dreams from blue to to purple, purple being, they explained, better than blue. I figured that if I was ever going to unravel the mystery of slime appeal, and exactly what it is that kids do with the stuff, this would be my prime learning opportunity. After observing my grand daughters working their slime for a while I noticed a loose pattern. It seemed that upon removing the slime from its container, they tended to first knead it, perhaps softening it up and getting it workable. Or maybe the kneading was just a sort of warming up exercise. At some point in the kneading tiny plastic mix-ins might be added to give the slime some texture. Next they stretched out the kneaded slime and worked it into a slime rope, ...which they would swirl into a rosette shape. Then they'd fold the rosette back into a globoid which they would continue kneading, stretching, poking, and shaping, ...until they re-folded the slime, at which point the kneading, shaping, stretching and poking would start again. It's a fairly quick-moving process, a segment of which I captured on video: I also learned that there are a few supplies that experienced slimers keep on hand: Lotion, to add to the slime in case it gets too hard; ...baking soda, to add in case the slime gets too soft; ...and toothpaste, the addition of which gives slime a nice, minty scent. Having now a better understanding of the modus operandi of sliming, I find myself still left with a few questions:
Do all kids work their slime the same way my grand daughters work theirs, or does each kid tend to have their own sliming method? What does it actually feel like to squish one's fingers through slime? Is it relaxing? Soothing? Darned satisfying? All of the above? (I wonder, and yet I find that I have zero desire to try so much as touching the stuff myself. Which likewise leads me to wonder if slime love is strictly a kid thing). But here's what I ponder the most about the slime phenomenon: with all the high-tech toys, digital gadgets, and computer screen diversions available to kids, isn't it something that what they really crave is to sink their fingers into a glob of goo?
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"Tropical Depression"
by Patti Liszkay Buy it on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BTPN7NYY "Equal And Opposite Reactions"
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