Spares in the thing

[rsc]

The "Subject" line of this post, in isolation, might appear to be a fairly cryptic message.

We keep a small spiral notebook on a hook in the kitchen, on whose pages we write grocery lists. This morning, jwg, noting that the current book was almost out of pages, looked on the shelves above it and around it, and, not seeing any more such books, asked me if I knew if we had any more, and if so where they were. I did not.

This afternoon, preparing to go out, he tore the current page from the book, revealing the very last page, on which was written the above message.

This might still seem cryptic, but we both knew that "the thing" referred to a piece of furniture in the living room that contains both bookshelves and drawers, and upon looking into one of the upper drawers, he found several spare grocery-list books. He took one of them out and hung it on the hook.

But not before writing on the last page...

Comments

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Good point. Thanks.