Rob's cabin looks like a landfill gone to disorder. Women don't understand this. They want to put things in hiding places, like drawers, so that life becomes an unending Easter-egg hunt. My girlfriend used to ask me why my scuba gear was in the middle of the living room floor. Because that way I could find it, I told her.
Women get logical at all the wrong times.
I didn't know, I said, but I figured it didn't pay to experiment casually with the unknown. We had gotten a really terrible movie about spaceships. See, these Life Forms turned people into cocoons and stuffed them into caves on some planet. The good guys had to look for them. It was like trying to find your scuba gear after your girlfriend cleans up.