Does this make as little sense to you as it does to me? I have to re-do our answering machine greeting to reflect the new addition to our family. One of K's idiosyncracies is that she doesn't want me to say, "We're not in right now," but "We can't come to the phone right now."
Her reasoning? You should never tell people that you're not home. That's an open invitation to break in!
Excuse me? Do we really believe that some burglar is going to call our house, realize that our answering machine is ambigious about our whereabouts, and decide to hit the house next door instead? "Hmm, if they weren't home, I could fence their collection of antique Spam containers, but they're merely unavailable... (twirls mustache) Curses! Foiled again!"
Related to this is the cargo net in the back of our minivan (well, of course we have a minivan). You can put lightweight packages in it and so on. When I saw it, I thought, "Hey, cool, the groceries won't fall over." When K saw it, she thought, "Hey, cool, when we have an accident the groceries won't fly forward at 70 MPH and hit us in the head, filling our brains with shards of aluminum from all those Spam containers and rendering us comatose until our painful deaths."
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