I’ve told this story a few times, but I am going to tell it again because stupid never dies.

I was friends with a person who was probably only hanging out with me because I was such an emotional wreck and suffering from depression and she had known me before and at that time  ( in the before ) she was far more interested in being friends with my husband then me.

She was doing a little grave dancing and I probably made her feel better about herself, you know?

Well, we were out one evening meeting up with the rest of our ‘group’ when she says to me, all very superior like, ‘ Make sure  you unplug your computer and update your phone because Mercury is in retrograde. ”

I was not exactly the sharpest tack in the box at the time, so I thought I had missed something. What exactly did Mercury have to do with my phone? Did she mean the planet was going to crash into a satellite  and kill our phones or the chemical and if she meant the chemical how the Hell was it going to get into my electronics?

I asked her what she meant and she said that when Mercury was in retrograde it stopped orbiting the Sun and then it started to move backwards.” When that happens” she said as if I was suffering from brain damage, but she was there to help me out of the forest of stupidity I had been lost in until she showed up, ” electronics freak out until it stops again and moves forward.

It only happens for a few minutes, I was informed. Then everything goes back to normal.

All I could think to say was, ” There’s ice on Mercury. Chunks of it inside of it’s craters at it’s poles. ”

She laughed so hard tears came out of her eyes, ” Oh Anita, oh wow…Ice on the planet closest to th Sun. SCIENCE lady! You need to get some! ”

For RDP Friday: CHUNK