Bobert cares that he is asked to "go overboard." If P-Vine did the terlet-scrubbing herself, he'd be bemused but not nearly so irritated.

I hope our little discussion is not going to cause dissention in their household. This kind of battle-of-the-sexes quibbling is a part of human existence that will probably never change, and provides fodder for an amusing and even occasionally enlightening exchange of observations. As long as no one takes it too personally, that is.

I have just one final question: what's so gay about the Air Force and the Coast Guard?