Why we’re calling in sick tomorrow

Unless you’re living in a vacuum, you may have heard that there seems to be some sort of kerfuffle in Washington DC about this health care business. We have no answers for that, although we’d like those bozos to come up with one. The latest in the threats to come out of the nation’s capital is another government shut-down.

You never think this is going to affect you. We live very far from DC. We don’t know anyone with a government job, per se. We realize that we’re not really looking at the big picture here. What happens is the Sisters decide how much we’re getting involved by how negatively something will impact our lives. “So far, so good,” we thought about this latest threat.

Until we learned that this shut-down was going to turn off the Panda Cam at the National Zoo.

WHAT!?! we shrieked. How will we go on?

Then, in a moment of perfect clarity, we realized that this could be a very good thing indeed. If there’s no Panda Cam there will be no video of us stealing ourselves a couple of pandas for our personal use.

We’ve planned it all out. We’re taking our panda-like substitute, Carlo, to replace Mai Xiang and her little panda pumpkin so when the cameras come back on, no one will notice anything amiss.

Honestly, we don’t know how this plan could possibly fail.