"A certain feeling of invincibility came over me, and I felt like I'd never screw up again," he said.
It would be easy to say that we've learned our lesson, that we'll never screw up again.
He liked hearing the music and the voices: "the sour voice of an older woman who used to tell anyone who would listen about her father's death, and the panic of an adolescent who, one winter dawn, swore that he would never screw without a condom again".
"Virbots are never rude, never take lunch breaks, never screw up, never ask for a raise," says Robert Rappaport, Virtual Personalities' chief executive.
And those leaders, accordingly, are under immense pressure to pretend that they never screw up.
Take that experience and apply it to mushrooms in a Tupperware container, and you'll never screw this up again.
The expressed assumption by the gas industry and trusting (complicit?) government officials has been that fracking gas companies can pierce, dump above and inject below our water supplies a toxic mix of chemicals supplies and never screw up.
Even in the face of Wald's commanding knowledge of the energy industry, our question remains: Shouldn't the burden of proof -- and the associated costs -- be placed on those advocating a practice that hinges on never screwing up a crucial resource?
In restoring the horses, Mr. Goings, who is known for his purist approach, used only dowels and glue, never screws or other metal hardware.
And the light bulb would never get screwed in.
