Old saying experiment
This is a report concerning an experiment which I conducted in an attempt to prove or disprove whether the old saying ‘what goes around comes around’ is true
First, I sketched an arrow on a piece of paper and wrote next to the arrow the words: ‘I am going around’.
I always do this – draw arrows and make notes – when I conduct experiments of this nature. The arrow helps remind me that the experiment has a point. Obviously, for ‘point’, substitute useful purpose.
I also find that the point on the arrow, or should that be the arrow head, or maybe it should be the point of the arrow head, reminds me that it’s important to be decisive.
At least, I think it does..
Next I stuck the piece of paper to an old, abandoned roulette wheel that I discovered when I was clearing out my late father’s possessions. He owned a casino, and was a firm believer in taking a hands-on approach to the business.
He also disliked the idea of being buried when he died. Well, after he died. He also disliked the idea of cremation.
With so few post mortem options available, and bearing in mind that he was also a firm believer in taking a hands-on approach to the business, obviously I had to remove his decaying hand from the roulette wheel first.
I then gently spun the roulette wheel around – in the direction of the arrow. It’s really important to get this right, it’s vital to spin it in the direction of the arrow. Otherwise, the arrow will be pointing the wrong way, it won’t be going around at all – it will be coming around.
So, what were the results of the experiment?
Well, my research has proved, beyond a shadow of doubt, that the old saying ‘what goes around comes around’ isn’t true.
What goes around doesn’t come around at all – it just keeps going around!
The only way that what goes around comes around could possibly be true is by making it true. Yes, you guessed correctly – by faking the evidence!
For example, if one were to sketch an arrow on a piece of paper and write the words ‘I am coming around’ on it, as well as the original piece of paper with the words ‘I am going around’ on it, and it, and if one were to place the second piece of paper – the piece of paper with the words ‘I am going around’ on it – on the roulette wheel first, and if one were to stop the roulette wheel at the exact point at which it was no longer going around but was coming around – exactly half-way around the roulette wheel in fact, and if one were to then substitute the piece of paper with the words ‘I am going around’ on it for the piece of paper with the words ‘I am coming around’ on it, then what goes around really would come around.