Out of gas
Me: Man, it’s frickin’ freezing in your classroom. So, Magda’s been reading these articles about how Russia’s cut off Bulgaria’s oil and–
Colleague Name Redacted: –and we’re not going to have any heat? I know. However, the dean did say that if it stays this way they’re going to close the school.
M: Well fine, but closing school isn’t going to make me warm.
CNR: No, but if you don’t have to come to school you can at least stay at home.
M: Where there’s no heat, either.
CNR: True, but unlike in your classroom, there you can turn on the oven and open the door.
M: Wow, that is brilliant!
[Later]
Me: …except then I realized that of course we’d have babies climbing into the oven and roasting themselves to death.
Magda: Whatever.
[Still later]
Me: I guess I should try to be cheerful that all my classes have been canceled and go home and turn on the oven.
CNR: Of course if everyone in the country does that we’re going to be out of electricity pretty soon.
Me: Yeah, I was sort of thinking that the logic is a tiny bit circular.
