Because He Told Me I Could Tell You

Here is one of my favorite 2012 stories yet. It requires a little background information.

Sometimes here on the farm, when we're all settled down and tucked in and drifting off to dreamland, something will wake us with a flinch and a start and we'll remember something that we didn't do before bed.

We didn't close the chicken pen.

We didn't turn off the irrigation pump.

We forgot to adjust some knob or doohickey that desperately needed adjusting.

Those are mostly summer problems, of course. But in winter, sometimes we forget to plug our cell phones in to charge.  That's what happened a few nights ago to poor Matty, who realized about 10 minutes after we were all snuggled up for the night that he had forgotten to plug in his cell phone.

And his cell phone was out in the subaru.

Also, he sleeps in the buff. And when I noticed that his cell phone retrieval plan did not include putting on any sort of clothing, I pointed out that he did, in fact, own a robe and that it was, in fact, only 10 degrees outside.

He just smiled at me and said, "Well sure, but then you couldn't tell all your friends that I went out, naked, into the middle of a cold winter's night to get my phone."

And now I have and you know why I love this guy so much. Never a dull moment!