Hypocrisy

Artwork by Duncan Long

Last night, I was messing around on the computer while Craig showered when a housefly suddenly started dive bombing me. It was really annoying. I got up and began turning off the lights to go to bed, and I discovered that Craig had left our sliding door open three inches! I guess that explains how the fly got in our house. I have to admit, I was kind of annoyed. I mean, what sort of barbarians are we that we can't shut the door properly? Are we trying to invite the local insect community into our home?

And then this morning, I remembered something.

I remembered that when I got home from taking the kids to the farm last week, I discovered that I had left our front door WIDE OPEN. As in, I don't think it could be open any wider than it was. As in, an open invitation to anyone passing by to come into our house! As in, "Come on in, people and help yourselves to anything you can find! The door is wide open!" And someone had been by, because we had a flier for a new garbage service taped to our screen door. (Apparently he was an honest guy, though, since nothing was missing.) (Thank goodness!)

So I am publicly apologizing to Craig-- who barely batted an eye when I confessed my mistake to him-- for being annoyed about the sliding door. Sorry, Craig. You're a better person than I am.

I guess we can begin working on this whole door-closing-thing together, one step (and one lock) at a time.