Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Emergency!

Yesterday at about 4 pm Chris calls me and the following ensues.

Chicks: Stop what you are doing and get on the computer now.

Hugs: Ooooookay. But my student will be here for tutoring at any minute.

Chicks: Well, she will have to wait!

I do not question this but assume something monumental has happened like a plane into a tower or landing in a river, or possibly the death of someone. So I apprehensively wait for the computer to boot up. And I try not to make a crack about how the new RAM in the computer does not seem to be making it faster, because joking would have been inappropriate in the face of the unknown disaster I am about to read about.

Hugs: I assume I need internet?

Chicks: Yes. (You can hear the tension.)

Hugs: Ok, where do I go?

Chicks: pearljam.com

At this point I assume that Eddie is hospitalized or Stone is dead. Then it clicks.

Hugs: You need me to order tickets, don't you?

Chicks: Yes! Hurry!