That’s what my father-in-law said once back when we were all young and gay. The Twinz of Terror were launching a motor bote at Houghton Lake and they had not put the PLUG in the bote. The Gumper was yelling, “PUT THE PLUG IN” from shore and they were merrily waving good-bye, unable to hear him over the motor noise. Neither of my beach urchins were in the bote (maybe they weren’t even born yet?) or I’d’ve been yelling and SCREAMING. (I don’t EXACTLY remember the details of this story so I am riffing a bit.)

So there was a minor (and I mean MINOR) panic this afternoon when the Twinz of Terror could not figure out what had happened to a fancy bottle of bourbon (Woodford Reserve) that they’d had on their trip to Asheville. Did they leave it in a hotel? At first I was flummoxed too. Then. I remembered a functionally empty bottle of Woodford Reserve that had made its way into the Landfill Chitchen. I poured what little was in there out, washed it out and threw it in the ree-cycle. “Did you drink what was left?” I was asked. Nooooo. There wasn’t enough left to drink!

At that point, I remembered the rest of the story. The Twinz arrived here at the Landfill in the late afternoon the Monday they returned from Asheville. The UU needed to continue on up north to his home but he rested long enough to join the GG for a wee snort of bourbon. And it was weeeeee because there wasn’t even enough for meeeeee.

Did either of them remember any of this? No they did not. Throughout our long relationship, the GG occasionally says something like, “let’s use your brain because it’s more efficient”. Yes. Yes. It usually is. (So are my hyper-sensitive ears and nose.) It didn’t work when he came at me this afternoon with my “Mexican” blue glass pitcher, asking me what the white “deposit” on it was. I’ve been wondering that too. He uses it to water the xmas tree. Did he put something in the water last year that made that happen? I did not know. My brain may be more efficient but I am not INSIDE his brain, at least not usually.

Alas, xmas is coming up way too soon but at least I know all the conic sections if the Gumper is somehow tuned in from wherever he is 🤪

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