Monday, February 8, 2010

The season of unanswerable questions

I'm getting a lot of questions. Unanswerable questions. When is he getting home? What does he have to do before he comes home? Will there be a homecoming ceremony? Will he be deployed again? When could that be? What will he do when he gets home? How soon will he go back to work? Unanswerable questions mean that the end of this deployment is FINALLY approaching! As the days go by, the volume of questions increases exponentially. Unfortunately, the answers still haven't arrived.

I like to be the one with answers. When I don't have an answer I figure it out or make it up. I can't do that now and I'm finding it hard to not have answers. I need a clever response so that I don't have to use those three dreaded words- I don't know.

I could try:

"Time will tell."

"It's a secret."

"Ask the Magic 8 Ball."

or in the spirit of my husband's sense of humor, I could give a random answer like, "Blue".

Any suggestions?

2 comments:

  1. green is a more preferable answer than blue. You never know what will happen if blue goes down.

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  2. I would answer "Pickle".

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