The new carpet appeared today. Sarah had lugged it home and up the stairs on its own and even rolled it out onto the living room floor. It is a white shag carpet. I knew it would be a magnet for stains so I was trying to be extra careful to not do anything stupid with the green guacamole that I was munching away at while we watched the Seinfeld season 1 DVD. I also was careful not to spill my orange macaroni and cheese on the fresh rug. But in an effort to avoid hitting the guacamole or the mac and cheese, I swung my arm into my full glass of brown apple cider and watched it pour over the counter of the coffee table and on to the new rug. Since much of the cider was spilling over the side of the coffee table I tried to hold on to it by cupping my hands underneath the flowing streams to catch what I could before the cider waterfall reached more of the floor. Sarah came back in what seemed to be about an hour with a hand towel and a roll of paper towels. We scrubbed the new rug with the paper towels to absorb the cider until it felt like we were getting diminishing returns.

When Ami, our houseguest, returned from his trip to see his family I explained to him about the situation and the problem. We got to talking about how interesting it would be if people made crop circles in their carpets as though the little aliens from Batteries Not Included had landed and wanted to be seen. I started to post it onto halfbakery.com and when I did I noticed that someone had posted the same idea of carpet crop circles just today. Imagine both me and Ami and this Desert Fox character all converging on having and posting this stupid idea at about the same time. Maybe the aliens are really entering into everyone’s mind that we should have crop circles on our carpets.

Sarah and I watched Scary Movie 3. It is the more likely cause for the sudden interest in crop circles. It had a lot of scenes focused entirely on crop circles to make fun of the movie signs. The best one was in the beginning of the movie when the main character is interested in doing a story on the crop circles and tries to explain to her boss, the executive in charge of the content for the station that people don’t want to see breasts, sex, and violence but instead need hard hitting facts, real journalism, and … .and ….and TWINS! (The whole office then busts into a great imitation of the Coors lite ad.)