Within one month, the issues we are interested have become picked up by the nation.
That's why even the most grotesque stuff, like Giuliani's claim that he's a rescue worker too, or Romney's remark that his sons are serving the country by helping him become president, doesn't get picked up.
But in recent months it has become to pick up.
When it is dark they become difficult to pick up, even under floodlights, and the game becomes too dangerous.
I'm not interested in talking about my age, but it's become impossible to pick up a newspaper or click on a website without reading reams of bilge about older people – and we are nearly always discussed in a negative context.
After the raids, it became impossible to pick up migrants at the connection houses and drive them into the desert.
Some business owners have become chauffeurs, picking up their workers, while other workers are relying on bicycles.
Any additional ones you pick up become accessories, like a beaded clutch, that you can trot out for special occasions.
And the bodega at the corner of McKibbin Street and Bushwick Avenue has become the place to pick up food, meet friends and practice Spanish with the clerks.
Wandering Headley's hallowed halls and playing the mandolin part for Led Zeppelin IV's "The Battle of Evermore" seems to open up something in Page, and he muses aloud about the time when he will become too infirm to pick up a guitar.
