ram dass and knitting

A friend of mine told me this story yesterday and he didn't even realize how funny it was. Maybe you'll find it amusing...

When Ram Dass was lecturing at Harvard, he included in his talks descriptions and references to various bizarre mental effects of a variety of drugs. He could always tell by scanning the room exactly who had partaken of which substance, because the people who had experienced what he was talking about had a very different look than the ones for whom it was all a remote theoretical case. There was a grey-haired older woman in his lectures who always sat right in the front row, and knitted through everything he said. Every time he looked around after describing some psychadelic effect, he could see that she was right with him. The gleam in her eye was unmistakeable.

One day after class he had an opportunity to speak to her.
"So," he said, "have you ever taken acid?"
"Oh no," she replied.
"But-- every time I describe these psychadelic effects you appear to know exactly what I'm talking about, as if you'd experienced it yourself."
She nodded.
"well-- how can that be, if you've never take drugs?"
She answered, "I crochet."

Comments

[grumperina]

Hahahaha! That's a funny one! Thanks for sharing!