Question

[hummingwolf]

Rummaging around in my desk looking for something else, I found a bunch of solid wooden cylinders, the diameter of an ordinary pencil and very slightly more than five inches long. What are they?

Edit: Okay, I have dowels! Now, why are there dowels in my desk drawer? How have I not noticed them before? Why are they there? Have they been here all along, or did some dowel gnomes sneak into my room distributing dowels? Now that I've found them in my desk, might I find them in other places as well?

Comments

[hai-kah-uhk.livejournal.com]

Dowels? (Rhymes with towels but not as soft. My father kept a box of dowels in the basement and I was fascinated with them. I never touched them or played with them; I only looked at them every now and then and thought to myself "dowels!" I guess I just liked the word. Still do.)

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Dowels! Yes, I do believe they are dowels. I wonder why they were in my desk?

[hai-kah-uhk.livejournal.com]

Did you at any time have a craft kit or did you ever plan to make something? Or maybe you took them because they were lying around being available and you figured you'd have a use for them someday? Maybe you thought they were pencils then too? Or... um... geez, I don't know. I honestly wasn't there at the time.

Maybe they're spare dowels in case the desk needs to be repaired. Kind of like spare buttons in the pocket of a new jacket.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

I don't remember ever having a craft kit, but now that you mention crafts, I realize that the answer to the "why?" questions is probably "Because my parents were packrats."