Friday, September 26, 2008

How to get to Grandma's

It's like we're in a bus, and we're stopped on a road in Nebraska, and the bus is almost out of gas and is held together with duct tape. We're all trying to decide which of two guys is correct, who have different answers to the question: "Should we go north to get to Grandma's house, or should we go south?"

Most folks on the bus are arguing about going north or south, and the relative merits of each. It is true, we've been going North for a while, but maybe it's time to go South.

But there's always been a good amount (but not enough) people sitting in the back of the bus that are saying "Why do we have to listen to these guys at all? They're the ones that drove the bus to Nebraska. Grandma lives in California. And why are we all in the bus together, and I have to pay for your incompetence? We should have taken separate cars. And in fact, I don't want to go to Grandma's house."

Of course, that minority of people are mocked for not making up their minds on the crucial "north or south" issue, because that's the issue at hand.