To: Ish who wrote (4826 ) 12/8/1997 11:56:00 AM From: Gauguin Read Replies (1) | Respond to
<<<5cats. A coyote ate one a couple of weeks ago.>>> Wish we had a functioning food chain where I live. When the light fixture filled up with water, it was 11:15 at night and all the lights were on. It was peculiar (at least) looking up into the light, and watching water come out of an electrical fixture. Even though it was 11:15, I knew there was something wrong. Science boy, rubs the sleep from his eyes: "These two things are those two that aren't supposed to be together. Why. Electricity runs great thru water. Heck, you could make wire out of it..." Yah, it's called a plumbing pipe . I was ginger to touch the switch to turn it off; spied it for effusions first. (No dummy here.) (You never know, 'cuz lots of houses have walls and ceilings filled with water.) You look for a piece of wood to stand on. (Like your head .) Was one of those glass bowls suspended by three tiny little chains, irreplaceable, and filling with a 64 pound per cubic foot buzzzing fluid. The devil's punchbowl. (Or something.) I figured the water would overflow, drip in my eye, put my eye out like acid, run down inside my shirt to the floor and arc-weld me between earth and heaven in a POP that would put the lights out and be seen across the street. "You see that Amy? Look like'n X-Ray!" The Experienced Guy is in a little panic in the back of my head, but he's saying, "Don't turn off the lights, buddy! Even though you own the most advanced construction tools on earth, you know you can't get a flashlight to work! Never! Never done it, buddy! Now is not the time to try it! Flashlights are why they invented lightbulbs and wiring!" As I said, he's the Experienced Guy. The guy who Knows the Truth. Who does the work, not just talk about it. Guy guy. Guys. (Uh oh. Mike's going to catch that.) (Uh oh is right. Fear can make you lose your place in a narrative.) (PC is a bigger fear than AC.) (Yes, Alex, so are parentheses.) So, I forget now, butalways budget a extra couple thousand a month for repair n materials). Yagodda return all those bottles though ~ you should see my box ~ I figure about eight hundred siliceous pounds and 60 cubic feet of climate-controlled indoor kitchen space, that could be used heck to store comestibles (I don't know, does anybody have those?), but my spouse has never said anything about it. (Sponge ear plugs.)
