> Personally, if someone asked me face-to-face "rate your skill as a writer" I'd probably say "average" or "slightly above average." In an anonymous poll, I'd rate myself higher because then it wouldn't seem so much like bragging.

This is how good a writer Dave is: to this day, whenever I enter a bathroom stall I ponder the danger of becoming mysteriously trapped therein and having to work out a code system of tapping on the pipes to communicate with the person similarly trapped on the next floor down.

If you are baffled by that reference, deduct one point from your RinkWorks Purity Test score. :-)

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