The phone rings, and a programmer answers.
Programmer:
Hello?
Voice on the phone:
Hala Misa Hailon Da?
Programmer::
I beg your pardon?
Voice on the phone:
Hailon. Hailon Da?
Programmer:
I’m sorry, but you’re slurring, or we have a bad connection, or I can’t understand your accent. What did you say?
Voice on the phone:
I said, is Mr. Allen there?
Programmer:
No. I’m sorry, but there’s […]

I should have noticed this earlier, but yesterday I discovered that my dog is also afraid of the patio.
Now by this I do not mean that he’s afraid of the patio, as in the back garden. No, he’s not afraid to go out into the back yard, because of some unseen, and thus unnoticed by […]