A Plethora of Tweezers

Pondering the way that tweezers isolate things at a small scale, and the fact that you can take an aptitude test to show that you can tweeze with the pros.Hey all, Ernie here with a refreshed piece from 2020 on everyone’s favorite topic, tweezers. I for one love reliving my splinters.Today in Tedium: In a world full of big problems, I’m going to focus on the smallest possible problem I can think of right now. It’s not so much a first-world problem as a miniature one. About a week ago, I got a splinter in my finger. It really hurt at first. It was microscopic—I could barely see it, but there it was. I could not get it out, until I tried again earlier this week. Then, after much effort on my part, it was finally removed. It still kinda hurts, but at least it’s gone, no longer embedded in my skin. Helping in this endeavor was the tweezer, a device that remains unheralded for some reason, but deserves a big nod of approval. Today’s Tedium is a series of vignettes about tweezers, because…