something is in the details

[derien]

eor can fill you in on what we've been up to - go read him.

Yesterday, when we got home from perusing fabrics, there were guys sitting on the roof of our porch, having a drink and talking, soaking up the sun.  After an hour or so we didn't hear their voices anymore, and then I got a call from The Lady Downstairs.  She had finally asked them bluntly to leave because she needed to use her bathroom, and they were sitting right outside her bathroom window.  But as she was talking with them she'd tried to give it a little spin that it might not be safe for them to sit on the roof. 

I said, "Well, you could glue some broken glass bottles out there, then it really wouldn't be safe."

There was complete silence at the other end of the line.  After a moment, she responded, hesitantly, "I don't think I could be that mean." 

I had to explain that, no, I couldn't be, either, it was just my strange sense of humor.