bt!

eta, re your actual post: Headhunters?

Hec has given me a special request that I pass along a story one of my friends just told me, and see if you can guess the ending.

The story:

My friend works for a catering company, and two weekends ago they worked a wedding with a whiny, overentitled, gripey Bridezilla from Hell, who was also one of those people who isn't content with just having a wedding but has to have a wedding with a Theme, as though it were a 6-year-old's birthday party.

So, this bride's theme was Butterflies. And she wanted masses of beautiful fluttery insects released into the open air at the moment she and her groom were declared Married. But somewhere along the way, she got the bright idea that butterflies alone were not magnificent and poetical enough for her, so she contacted an exotic insect supplier (n.b.: the wedding industry in the US? Seriously wack), and at the moment the officiant pronounced them husband and wife, many many pretty little net boxes were opened and hundreds of butterflies were released, followed by more net boxes and hundreds of pretty jeweled dragonflies.

What happened next?

An interesting idea. Build a platform to raise one about 18 inches, and put a storage area in the bottom. Hmmm.

This is the first time I have had a dishwasher at all in about a decade, so it is still just magic to me.

Took the recycling to my car. In jammies.

Time to swap the laundry and get to folding and hanging the clean stuff.

Pandemonium!

Also, a fine, fine wedding banquet for the dragonflies?

What happened next?

The dragonflies ate the butterflies?

The dragonflies swarmed the happy couple and forced them to retreat indoors? Or, in a surprise move, ate the bride?

What happened next?

I have two ideas.

I'll go with, the dragonflies ate the butterflies. The other option is, the dragonflies promptly fell to the ground/floor, dead, because they suffocated in the boxes or couldn't handle the climate.

(Edit to remove white font because others got to my first idea first.)

Impressive for someone who's not even bt!

My friend said, "The dragonflies thought it was Christmas morning, and the butterflies thought it was the Slaughter of the Innocents. And the humans were screaming and crying."

What happened next?

Tom and I have gotten my almost-4-year old nephew's birthday present together! My sister says "he's into bugs." So we got him this:

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and this: [link]

And a couple books about bugs: I'm A Pill Bug! and the Icky Bug Alphabet Book.

Though, the slacker dude at the MIT Coop cracked me up when I explained to him what I wanted: "Have you considered just sending him a big box of bugs?"

Tom braved Toys R Us for the habitat. Brave man.

Anyway, I'm excited. He's at an age where cool stuff is not wasted on him!

HA for the unintentional bug related post!!!!!

Get him some butterflies! And dragonflies! It'll be fun *and* educational. And may possibly save him from a wedding disaster in the future.