As I was teetering on a ladder carefully painting the edge of a wall, it struck me how this will be one of those stories where we’ll look back and laaaaaaaugh. “Oh,” I’ll chortle, “One time, long, long ago, before the mutant wars, I had to make a thing called a condominium look like a West Elm catalog in order to convince someone else to buy it!”
“What’s a West Elm, grandma?” the kiddies will say. “I thought trees were illegal now?”
Then I will tell them about arranging vases of dried sticks, and they will laugh at me and ask me to tell them the story of how I lost my eye at IKEA. We will all relax in our hovel until the radiation winds kick up. One of the skins from the mutants I killed over a’ter holler will blow off, and we’ll have to make due with some tattered Pottery Barn catalogs to cover the hole.
The kiddies will drift off to sleep, muttering “And you could get meatballs at this place called IKEA? Made from animals?”
In other news, the secret to trimming a ybab’s nails seems to be singing “Rye Whiskey” over and over again. I was trying to get Mr. H to join in on “Alabama Song,” and then “Mack the Knife,” but he is not familiar with those works. He didn’t even know “Rye Whiskey,” but it’s simple enough to jump in at any time.
Oddly, my corporate Acceptable Use Policy has blocked your website. Not sure why. Maybe it just blocked the Blogger comment page.
What I meant to say: I love that song. It’s all about not being a duck. Which is important. See also:
http://picturesforsadchildren.com/index.php?comicID=151
When the bottle gets empty…
Even if you tell him that “Alabama Song” is a Doors song? Not even then?