[ WP ] Write a short story where something extremely trivial is/was a cornerstone of society .

Never in all of the centuries of human existence has any one singular invention been as highly revered for its versatility and sheer usefulness as has duct tape. When Noah's ark had a starboard leak and the animals ran amok, Noah quickly and expertly attached a piece of the adhesive tape to the hole and saved the vessel. When the Romans ran out of nails to hang people by on crosses, what else besides duct tape could have possibly kept them hanging? Nothing, that's what. Because nothing is as strong and durable as duct tape. 
 
 When the North and South were fighting valiantly during the Civil War and a man fell to a stray bullet, how else did the soldiers quell the bleeding? That's right, duct tape. Abraham Lincoln himself proclaimed in a letter to his dear wife Mary what an extraordinary achievement of man duct tape is and shall always be. 
 
 And lest we not forget, how many miscellaneous house hold items have been brought back to life by its mystical powers. 
 
 Priests and shamans alike praise duct tape as a precious gift from the gods. Temples have been built in its gracious honor, although most of them have been destroyed by excessive peeling. Rest assured, those responsible have been properly smote. All we ask from the duct tape gods is to continue letting us get by on half-assed and temporary solutions due to our shameful human laziness. Because we promise we will get those things fixed for real eventually. 
 
 Everyone join me in a prayer to these wondrous duct tape gods. 
 
 `` Why fix now what we can fix later? Amen.'' 
 

