Hooray for selectively obvious bullshit
Mar. 12th, 2012 02:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sniffnoyIt went more or less something like this:
[Zach, Anne, and I are cleaning out the TV room.]
Anne: So much shit builds up here, because people never throw anything out! Look at this cable. Will we ever need this? What is it?
[One end has a standard two-prong plug, and is a little bulky, like it contains an adapter. We can't see the other end at the moment.]
Zach: Well, evidently it's a charger.
Anne: But for what? What sort of device could this plug into?
[She displays the other end. It doesn't look totally unfamiliar, but I certainly have no idea what it might be called or what it might plug into.]
[Beat]
Zach: Oh yeah, that's USC.
[Anne, annoyed, leaves to go do something else. I start giggling.]
[Zach, Anne, and I are cleaning out the TV room.]
Anne: So much shit builds up here, because people never throw anything out! Look at this cable. Will we ever need this? What is it?
[One end has a standard two-prong plug, and is a little bulky, like it contains an adapter. We can't see the other end at the moment.]
Zach: Well, evidently it's a charger.
Anne: But for what? What sort of device could this plug into?
[She displays the other end. It doesn't look totally unfamiliar, but I certainly have no idea what it might be called or what it might plug into.]
[Beat]
Zach: Oh yeah, that's USC.
[Anne, annoyed, leaves to go do something else. I start giggling.]
