- They’re the first to forgive you, so it’s okay.
- They know it’s a dangerous job when they take it.
- They don’t usually laugh when you tell them their sexual position is one of your favorites.
- They can still perform simple household tasks, even after the lobotomy; such as scramble eggs? Although you do usually have to remind them to stop when they’re finished, and you would want to do the actual cooking yourself, due to the hot burner and all.
We apparently had missionaries at the door recently, but I was in my shop at the time and Alpha answered the door and sent them on their merry way as she is wont to do. I tend to chat with them for a while. With telephone salespeople it’s the other way around. I say things like, “Whoa, the baby’s let the alligator out of the tank again, gotta dash,” while Alpha sometimes gets snagged.
I went out at lunch to buy paints for Gamma for the weekend, one-liter bottles of poster paints. This requires driving cross town to the big art supply store I just love so, so much, so so much, which in turn involves getting inconsolably lost in lunchtime Vienna traffic, which is not as bad as say lunchtime Mexico City traffic or lunchtime Jakarta traffic, but is bad enough for me. Also I forgot to eat lunch so I’m hungry now.
But I have the paints.
And I saw a guy washing a big bronze statue of the Pope. Scrubbing it good.
