Scissors!

Alright, so I'm out of high school (WHICH IS FREAKING AWESOME!) and I don't really learn things anymore...and sometimes I feel bad about my lack of education and I think I'm starting to get stupider so I decided I need to just learn things so I can continue using my brain. The great thing is that now I can learn about whatever the heck I want to learn about! So now I'll always be interested in what I'm learning, and it'll make me more excited about learning!

This morning I was helping my dad correct some last minute homework because the end of the quarter is coming up and he needed it all in (and being that I've been his aide for a year+ I am just pro at correcting homework, and I'm pretty fast. Not even joking sometimes I have dreams about creating master keys for his homework- how sad is that?) Anyway, while I was correcting homework a student came up to me and asked me if she could borrow some scissors and that got me thinking.

I mean how fascinating are scissors, really? They are amazing! They do so much, and sure we could use a knife and make scissors not as important but I for one don't want too because I have that sneaking suspicion I'll cut myself the first time I try, and it takes longer.

But they are so useful! I mean, just the other day I used a pair of scissors to make some old jeans into some new kapris! They're so great! So here it is for your entertainment and learning- the very much so abridged history of scissors:

So it would appear that scissors first came about in Egypt (because let's face it, they invented like everything!) around 1500 B.C. and since then they have, quite obviously, never left. They were made out of iron or bronze or steele and I have to say-just guess work here- that they probably weren't very comfortable to hold.

Not that it matters because even now in this day and age scissors aren't comfortable for me to hold because manufacturers insist on making them for right-handed people and it leaves poor left-handed people like me quite in the dust as far as cutting goes. I'm going to blame this fact for the reason I can't cut a straight line to save myself.

Anyway, back on subject as technology grew better so did scissors (although you can't really improve on the original idea...all people could do was make the blades sharper and the handles more comfortable) but people weren't happy with only one type of scissors, after all why have one when you can have hundreds? So they started inventing more!

Now you can get fabric scissors, paper scissors, sewing scissors, kitchen scissors, garden scissors (except gardeners really prefer it if you'd call those shears) and get this- they even have scissors that fit your feet!! I'm not really sure why...it doesn't sound very comfortable to me, but they have them!

Now, tell me honestly- after reading all this and learning all of this fascinating information about scissors don't you think that that word is spelled oddly? Really, the more you see it, and type it, and read it the more you start thinking- 'well, why didn't they just spell is sissors? or cissors? Why do they have the s AND the c instead of just one or the other?' But trust me, you don't want to start thinking about this, because you won't get an answer-- and if you're anything like me not having an answer will drive you nuts! And are scissors really worth going crazy for? Really? I think not! :)

And there you are--the very abridged and completely odd history of scissors!