Pros and Cons of whittling

Pros:

• It gets pretty boring just sitting on the porch.
• The wood shavings can be glued back together to make a stick.
• It takes me back to a time when men whittled.

Cons:

• Don't know what I am making, so it looks like I am just making a stick thinner.
• The knife keeps slicing through my skin.
• Ma is hollering 'bout something out back by the clothesline.