Friday morning on Clementina

[Setting: 7:30am, on the stairs going from our apartment down to the garage, where we store our bikes. Eric is walking behind me on the stairs.]

Ellie: I'm putting my hair up when I get to work.

Eric: Huh?

Ellie: Just in case you were wondering if I were going to work with my hair looking so messy, I thought I would mention that I'm going to put it up when I get there. I can't put it up now because of my bike helmet.

[pause]

Eric: Yeah. I can see now why I should have been wondering, but I wasn't.

[And then we each put on our helmets, walked our bikes out of the garage, hopped on them and rode off in different directions towards work.]