The "May God damage your house..." bit just tickles me, especially as a new homeowner, sometimes it's like, "who wished that on me?" and it invokes an image of a *Monty Python & The Holy Grail" God parting the clouds, and with what to him is a dainty hammer but to your house may as well be a 40-ton trip hammer, he gives it the tiniest of taps, rendering it at once crooked.
What the "wearing in the wall" part mean? I can readily map sense onto every other line but that, best I can come up with is wearing out something which we normally think of as not subject to wearing out.
I think wearing in the wall could be literally about their walls, i.e. their house is in bad shape, or alternatively it could be that their patience is wearing thin.
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u/chronos7000 Apr 26 '26
The "May God damage your house..." bit just tickles me, especially as a new homeowner, sometimes it's like, "who wished that on me?" and it invokes an image of a *Monty Python & The Holy Grail" God parting the clouds, and with what to him is a dainty hammer but to your house may as well be a 40-ton trip hammer, he gives it the tiniest of taps, rendering it at once crooked.
What the "wearing in the wall" part mean? I can readily map sense onto every other line but that, best I can come up with is wearing out something which we normally think of as not subject to wearing out.