As soon as I asked the question
I remembered where I put the fuses--duh!
Why does this always happen--
not so much that it happens, I guess,
but why at such inopportune times as this,
where she is so likely to find out?
Like the time I was enjoying the sound of
the rain beating against the window.
I was watching it sheet down the window,
admiring it's intensity.
Then she walks in, dry as a bone, and says,
"A sprinkler head has broken off in the
front yard. Can't you hear it on the windows?"

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