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It must be deeply embarrassing—you press the tit or pull the wire or push the button, expecting a blinding flash and then paradise, but all you get is an artificial fart and a tubeful of people staring at you.

<marvin>Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom!</marvin>

If you're going to inform your loved ones that you've survived a disaster, I highly recommend making sure they know what the disaster was.

A couple of weeks ago, there was an industrial accident in downtown STL. According to online posters, the cable networks were infusing this story with the usual overdose of hysteria. Even though I live and work way out in the burbs, I dropped my parents an e-mail to let them know I was safe, just in case.

This had the opposite of the intended effect.

I soon got a panicked phone call from Mom, asking what the frell was going on. Seems she'd been working on online genealogical research all day and hadn't even had the TV on, so my message worried her more than all the coverage she hadn't been watching.

On the other hand, when I dropped my folks a line to check on them after TS Cindy passed over their South Mississippi home, the reply was, "Guess we just forgot it was a tropical storm so didn't send you an update."

Perspective. Heh.

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