Touch, Tickle, Hear

to which the cranberry-snacking parrot replied, "and what've you got to say for yourself?" And that is why Farmer John now faces state and federal charges regarding his "pesticide" distribution process.
--from the Distributed Works of the Disenfranchised Two-Legged-Two-Winged


There be two carriers of pride. The ones that hoist it up on their shoulders and whine and the ones that hoist it up on their shoulders, full stop.

To the untrained eye all things about both types of carriers are the same. Actually, to the eye there's barely a way to disambiguate the two. It takes the collaboration with the body's other sensory organs to really get the difference. Namely the ears.

Touch and tickle and you'll hear the swelling of pride within the first kind. Touch and tickle and you'll get a fist to your nose, with nary a sound, from the second kind. That is the difference.