Dear Humans,

I work really hard to get the last bit of peanut butter out of the bottom of the jar. If the first dollop was as difficult to get out as that last smidge, I’d probably give up on the whole enterprise.

But there’s something about that last little dab. We’re willing to work for it, even if our hands get a little sticky.

It’s probably the same reason some of you like to write with the short nib of an over-sharpened pencil. You have to hold it uncomfortably by the ferrule, you write with painstaking slowness, and your handwriting is a mess, but there’s something joyful in the salvage.

Sincerely,

Mr. Curt