Oh man. I totally wait for the neighbours to clear out before I go outside. They’re nice people, but who needs the stress?

Totally! I think they’re watching my movements, learned my traffic patterns, etc.

I shallwould start taking the trash out in the morning to disrupt their sensors.

For a moment I thought you said that you were going to stop taking the trash out, and I was concerned.

I would if I could but I shan’t. I would like one of those bank tubes that suck my checks up and over to the tellers but for my garbage bags. Just a shoot shute that whisks it away like the trash it is.

Wow, up here we just hand the cheque to the teller. Like an animal. Also, we spell it cheque… Like, I guess, a British animal.

Bonus trivia since I’m already talking about spelling: the word “teller” comes from a Norse word for counting!

We’re too lazy down round these parts. We like to sit in our cars and avoid physical contact with the Norwegian counters. I would like to use the British animal cheque spelling though. I would pronounce it “le cheque” though. Because I’m fancy.

Wait is Norwegian the right descriptor for Norse?

Really, I prefer to deposit cheques by taking a photo on my phone and not even leaving the house.

I meant Old Norse, the precursor to Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish. English inherited a few words from the ol’ Vikings. 😊

I used to deposit my checks via my bank’s app, too. And then they went top-secret complicated to even sign-in to the app and now I’m forced to use the vacuum tubes. Although, I do kinda enjoy the satisfaction that comes from watching analog hi-tech in action.

I started watching the Viking series not long ago. It was pretty good but I felt like it was competing for space in my head with Game of Thrones.