Slippery Intuition

On the way to work today I heard a commercial that might have just been heard in my alternaworld. It was a Sonic commercial with those 2 guys who get all the different slushie flavors and such. Well this morning, these 2 guys were talking about breakfast burritos, and one of them said, "They say that a burrito is the best way to start the day" or something like that. And then the other guy says, "Oh I don't listen to they, I only listen to them. Them says you should eat at Sonic." And there's some other verbal judo about the they versus them. OK now the reason this was such a fantastic happening is because ONE, I laughed out loud and had to put the coffee down for fear of spilling and TWO, yesterday I was attacked by the "Hypothetical THEY," an evil cousin to the "Royal WE." (Aside: In high school, our librarian used to often say things like, "We don't put our feet on the couch." or "We don't talk as loudly as you're talking in the library." That librarian probably also uses the hypothetical they.)



Back to my story, here's why the THEY ever even happened yesterday. OK see I went at it on my computer at school messing with our grading program b/c a bunch of my kids have moved away so I just started deleting them, but then needed to re-export grades and blah blah blah. None the less, the fact that I used my brain and my finger and mouse to click around on this dumb grading program was shocking!! and also caused a problem. (Aside: My uncle is a teacher again after a lot of years not teaching. The stock market dropped or crashed a couple years back, so he's back in the classroom. Every time I see him, he says, "So do you do grades on the computer? I say, "Yes." He says, "We do too." That's the conversation; we've had this talk word for word 4 times already.)



Back to my story, in a bit of an Ooops! I screwed up moment, I sought the help of a fearless leader just for advice on the situation I got myself into, and she said, "THEEEEEY say never to change anything on IGPRO. They say not to change anyone's status. They say they'll do it for us." WHO???? Who will do this and when and geeeez I thought I'd lose it. My fearless leader wanted me to become uptight, much like she is, but oh no; I'm far too laid back, even for a red head. SO! This morning when the Sonic guys start talking about listen to THEM not THEY, I just knew it was going to be a most excellent day, and it was.





What's the difference in swiss and suisse??? That's what I want to know.