Here's a snippet from a text thread with the woman I met for lunch last Saturday. She and some fellow parents of high schoolers are discussing a Coronavirus-motivated "Plan B," having booked a cruise for them and their kids for Spring Break.
Side note: who the fuck under the age of 80 books cruises? And...for high school kids' Spring Break?
Why not go balls-out and book a stay at an Amish farm and live on the edge, for fuck's sake?
So I try to inject some playfulness and humor by suggesting a trip to Minot ND. Everyone in the Midwest knows that to be pretty much the end of the earth and would find the suggestion of a trip there to be funny, especially in this bleak time of year. Yeah...not this terminally geeky, dour lass.