Short Circuits and Glass Stones

I thought you all might be able to use a laugh today. :) This is from a letter I wrote to a friend about a year ago. Enjoy...

"Rachel's got a short circuit."

Ah yes, it was an inauspicious dinner for me. It began with political matters then moved to an attempt to discuss whether ladies and gentlemen should behave as such regardless of the behavior of others. I failed to make my siblings see my point (perhaps because I wasn't all that sure of it myself). From there we moved to a discussion of people who live in glass houses. (You know, people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.) Once upon a time I attempted seriously to explain the meaning of that saying to my brothers. It was a smashing failure. Today, they kept saying things such as:

People who wear glasses shouldn't throw stone rocks.

People who live in rocks shouldn't throw glass houses.

People who live in bricks shouldn't throw glass stones.

I tried again to explain it to Rebecca but before long realized that I wasn't getting anywhere. ("You go outside to throw the stones!") Michael ended up by accused me of making up the saying myself.

Then, with interludes for the discussion of duels, parables, and such, we moved on to the song "It's A Small World After All" and the float in front of us in the Arvada parade that proclaimed it to all with ears. From there we rapidly made our way to the lyrics of "The World Turned Upside Down". By this time I'd been accused of an inablilty to stick with a given subject for more than a few minutes ("Rachel's got a problem with subjects!"). I attempted to recite the words to the song in question but the 4th line came out sounding EXACTLY like the first line, prompting the short-circuit statement above. I'm not sure what happened to put my brain in such a state. I don't THINK it was my fault.