Thanks, I said. At home the boys were quiet. I offered homemade sundaes. John Gray is wrong. Men are from Mars.
Women are from ah Earth.
I asked for nothing. I merely explained that it would behoove their retailers to hand out more than a complimentary catalogue with their starter kits. We should have known more basic data before launching. But I thanked them for their fine product and said, one day, we would revisit universes far away. Well - I got a phone call a day later.