a conversation with matt:
m: "we need to get a new sheet. ours has balls all over it and i can't sleep. they keep me awake."
s: "oh, like 'princess and the pea.'"
m: "what??"
s: "you know...princess and the pea, where the princess can't sleep because there is a pea under a whole bunch of mattresses."
m: "is that real?"
s: "it's a fairytale, you know, a children's story."
m: "is the story about the egg falling off of the wall real?"
s: laughing. "no. it's like 'hansel and grettel."
m: "that's the one where the boy and girl eat the house made out of candy and then the witch eats them."
s: laughing. "let me read you the story of princess and the pea from the internet"
reading of the story.....
m: after finding out that the prince marries the princess because she can feel the pea through 20 mattresses thus proving that she is a princess, "would you really want to marry someone who complained about not being able to sleep because of a pea?"
s: "hmmmm"
