My fiancé Jonathan [groggily]: Don't run into the [new storage unit].
Me [perkily]: I know what it needs! Glow tape!
J: Yeah. That would be perfect! We don't have any glow tape.
Me: Yeah. We should get some. It's a very handy thing to have in life.
J: Uh-huh.
Me: Oh! I know what would work instead! Gaff Tape. White gaff tape.
J: Yeah. That would be great! We don't have any gaff.
Me: OO! I know what I can use that we definitely DO have! Scotch tape! Can I turn on the light for a second?
J: [Sigh] Yes, but how is Scotch tape going to do anything? It's clear. [As I turn on the light and pick up a roll of masking tape on the floor by my side of the bed] Oh. You meant masking tape.
Me: Yes, of course I meant masking tape... which... I apparently keep at my side of the bed....
J: Yeah, why is there masking tape on the floor by the bed?
Me: I don't know! I've been wondering that for months!! Now I know!! It's for this moment!!
J: Oh my GOSH what is it like inside your head?
Me:
I've told you before. Okay, picture a little girl in a pink swirly
skirt and a pink flowery frilly shirt and maybe a pink hat and pink --
no, red -- shoes with a bow on them and an ankle strap, but she doesn't
really like the ankle strap. She's got a bubble blower and she's on a
Slip 'N Slide and she's twirling around on the Slip 'N Slide in the
sprinkler--
J: --Oh, there's a sprinkler?
Me:
--Yes, there's a sprinkler -- of course there's a sprinkler -- and
she's blowing bubbles and her skirt is swirling out to the sides. Oh
and there's a rainbow. That's what it's like inside my head.
J: ....That's what it's like in your head?
Me: Uh-huh.
J: .....You're exhausting. [Rolling over and mumbling to himself] ...of course there's a sprinkler.
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