Back in December, while driving, I was chatting with a new friend and mentioned that I would soon be putting winter tires on my car. He asked me why people did that; changed their tires for the winter. I was a little surprised by the question. Though I supposed it was a justifiable one for a life-long city dweller who would have no need for car ownership let alone seasonally appropriate radials. So I did my best to explain to him my understanding of tread patterns and varying rubber densities. Not to mention that here in Quebec, it’s the law.<\/p>\n
After dropping him off, I reflected on the common adage “there are no stupid questions”. It’s a good one. The only thing that keeps us from asking questions – questions that for some reason we think we should already know the answer to – is pride. And I’ve never been a big fan of that measure of pride. Never the less I still often fall prey to this arrest in learning myself. It’s something I’m going to focus on changing in the new year. Mostly because I’m embarking on a new project, a new film, which will likely bring me into contact with people who have a lot to teach me. I hope to make “I don’t know, tell me” my new mantra.<\/p>\n
It wasn’t until I got home that something occurred to me regarding my new friend’s inquiry about winter tires. It wasn’t that he’d never owned a car, or even ever seen a television commercial for Bridgestone Blizzaks. It’s that…<\/p>\n
He’s from Toronto.<\/p>\n
Toronto, a city less a part of the “Great White North” than many states to the South. A city beleaguered by our nation’s ever lasting (and mocking) memory of a particular winter that saw their mayor call in Canada’s armed forces to help clear the streets of snow. A city where, indeed, people could feasibly grow up never having purchased a set of winter tires. Well, it’s January now in Montreal and if I hollowed out the snow bank outside my window I could use it as a garage. I just hope my friend got a good pair of boots by the first snowfall.<\/p>\n
There are no stupid questions. Just different routes to the same eventual destination of knowledge. “I don’t know, tell me” or maybe “Ask now so you don’t get snow-jobbed later.”<\/p>\n
PS. This I do know: Refrain<\/em> news coming soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Or how I remind myself that there are no stupid questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-from-the-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}