Origami: An art form or ADDICTION?

Reply to Z Bone :

>I'm new to AAO and if you have already covered this topic, please excuse 
>me.

>Now, I find myself not being able to drive past an origami paper store 
>without stopping.  It's almost becoming an obsession.  It's like an 
>addiction.  Is this possible?  Sometimes I go in and just kind of look 
>and watch the other people.  But it's hard not to spend some big bucks.

>I'm embarrassed to admit it but, once I bought 48 boxes of origami paper 
>without even a break.  The origami clerk actually started getting tired 
>of giving me the boxes.  After a while, even I started to get exhausted. 
>It was a strange feeling.  I wanted to stop but I didn't.  I know I'm not 
>making any sense but I need help.  Anybody else out there with this 
>problem?

Problems like this are a complete mystery to me. I used to manage an origami
paper store. I was surrounded by origami paper every day, but I never folded one
scrap...OK, just one...I folded it into a paper vagina, and married it.

Other than that, I was just in it for the money. Big profits in origami shortly
after the Armistice with Japan. I never had a customer buy 48 boxes at once. I
didn't have to. I had customers lined up around the block. Clerks would move
through the crowded store with 3 or 4 boxes of paper in each hand, and no one
got grabby. My bouncers carried wooden yard sticks...they never had to use them.
The thought of getting their fingers injured was enough to convince even the
most unruly customer that their folding days would be over.

Customers like you confuse the paper animals with real life. They aren't REAL.
They are just entertainment. A couple hours of folding paper animals is no
different than watching a Dennis Hopper movie. Buy the paper, fold a damn
hedgehog and GO HOME.

RJ