BETHEL PARK - Always trying to keep up on current trends, Susie Messner thought it'd be fun to pick up an adult coloring book and spend a few hours creating a masterpiece. Sadly, she found the hobby to be just as frustrating to her as it had been in pre-school.
"When I was a kid, I'd always make the sky orange or the grass blue," she remarked today. "I tried to say I was being creative, but the truth was that I just stunk, and I knew it. I thought I'd get better with time, but all this is doing to dredging up bad memories of art class."
The elaborate patterns aren't helping either. "I can barely read the directions on my pill bottles, and they want me to fill in a bunch of tiny shapes? And shade them on top of that? They're nuts."
Messner has set aside the coloring books and is waiting for the next trend to arrive. One thing's for sure --- she won't go back to another recent fad: knitting. "Boy, that's another one I suck at. And another thing I tried as a kid and failed miserably at. I don't know what's coming next, but I hope it's something like napping. Now that's a trend a lot of us could do well."
