Charybdis and Scylla

Daughter Kari's car turned over 100,000 miles on her way to work this morning. She Tweeted about it and posted the proof on Twitpic, which involved the following exchange via Twitter:

Me to her: "Congrats. 11,000 more miles and you catch up with Scilla." (The name of my little Ford Escort Wagon.)

Kari to Lynamri: "PLEASE remind me to name my next car Charybdis. (Hee hee -- CARybdis)"

Naturally I had no idea who/what Charybdis is/was. Thank goodness for Google and Wiki. After reading about Charybdis and Scylla, I caught on. (Scilla (my car) is so named because her previous owner was a Priscilla plus I like the flowers. Not because I misspelled Scylla.)

Kari always did love her myths. When she was in grade school at Corning, she joined the 4-H club a couple of her friends belonged to. At one of the first meetings, the leader asked Kari to present a report at the next meeting "on anything you are interested in".

Kari wrote up a comprehensive report on some of her favourite mythological characters. I suggested to her that I didn't think that was what her 4-H leader had in mind. That perhaps she should do a report on cooking or sewing or her pet. "No, Mom, she said I could do it on ANYTHING I was interested in."

Kari presented her report at the next meeting. It was way over the heads of the other members. I've forgotten just what the leader said to Kari, but my daughter decided 4-H wasn't the club for her.

Having misunderstandings over verbal communications is an everyday occurance, I'm sure. I have made an arrangement with the daughter of my former next door neighbor to use her carport this winter unless the property gets sold. (We can't park on the street due to snow removal.) Rather than send the nominal monthly rent each month, she said to figure it from when I start using the carport until when I'm done and just send one check.

I'm not planning on parking in the carport until we have our first plowable snow. So, if we get this forecasted snow and I start parking there the 6th, I'm figuring on using the carport Dec 6-Jan 6 -- Jan 6-Feb 6 -- Feb 6-Mar 6. Hopefully by then the snow will be over, if not, then til Apr 6. Three, possibly four months.

Bud thinks of the rent being on a calendar month basis, so, assuming it will snow sometime in December I should already be parking there since I am going to be paying for the month anyway.

Isn't it interesting? I have no idea whether Deb thinks as I do or more as Bud does. It isn't a big deal either way. Just another example of errors due to communication. No wonder we have courts jammed with lawsuits. And wars.