Marriage Is Not a Metaphor, by Dr. Donald DeMarco

I passed through the metal detector at the Las Vegas Airport without incident.  No alarm complained about my passage.  While waiting for my wife, who was the inconvenient recipient of a more thorough random check, I turned to the attendant and told her that I was surprised to pass through the metal detector so quietly since I have entered the “metallic age” of life:  gold in my teeth, silver in my hair, and lead in my pants.  She allowed herself a controlled chuckle and said, softly, “That’s good.”  Security personnel are not allowed to laugh audibly on the job.  Then, I added, “Apparently the metal detector is not sensitive to metaphors.”  Her smile told me that she understood what I meant, but I was thinking about how this image has wonderful applications for a more important issue. ….

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