James: “So I saw the coolest thing at the grocery store!”
Ursula: “What was it?”
James: “It was restored and everything!”
Ursula: “What was?”
James: “The thing!”
Ursula: “What thing?”
James: “THE THING!”
Ursula: “…you mean the car?”*
James: “Yeah!”
(pause)
Ursula: “You planned out just how you were going to phrase that, didn’t you?”
James: “For the past two and a half hours, yes.”
*Note for the younger generation–the VW Thing was a breed of car, now nearly extinct in the wild, vaguely resembling a cross between a jeep and a hypercube.
