02/02/2004 Archived Entry: "How to fall through the ceiling in 4 easy steps."
- Go up into the attic and do some insulating work. Spread fibreglass insulation around loosely on the floor making sure to obscure where the floorboards end.
- Step onto the area where there are no floorboards and no lath, just plaster that could fall at anytime.
- Fall through the ceiling - but make sure that all the plaster ends up on the bed below and that you fall so that one foot and one arm are still in the attic.
- As you hang halfway between the bedroom and the attic, contemplate how you will tell your wife what's happened in an amusing and unalarming kind of way.
