Robert Coren: We keep anywhere from 5 to 7 varieties of breakfast cereal open at the same time; how boring would life be if one ate the same kind of cereal every day?
John Gintell: You didn't explain how we have a strict rotation scheme so that all cereals get a fair chance; that because of the arrangement of shelves and the lack of medium-term memory, we have to move every single box each day; and the difficulty when bringing new boxes home of deciding where in the order to place them.
Yes folks, you read it right here on soc.motss: this is what
long-term couples do to rechannel the energies that would otherwise
be taken up with devising ways to send a partner home to mother for
a week, mixing up their sox, or simply putting a dirk in one
another's back. Ritual: how to save a marriage, on the next Oprah.
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