Hypothetical Bearings

(My boyfriend and I are lying in bed at home. When I have trouble sleeping, I ask him to talk to me, and then conversations like this occur…)

Me: “If you were a duke, and I a non-noble person, what would you do? We couldn’t live together or anything.”

Boyfriend: “I’d be the first monogamous duke in the world and I’d use all the dirt I have on the king so that he’d let us be together.”

Me: “Aww, sweet. It’s your turn to ask a question now.”

Boyfriend: “Okay. What if we lived on the Arctic? And we had to live in an igloo to survive?”

Me: “I’d buy a freezer to keep us warm. But what about bears? They would try to attack us, wouldn’t they?”

Boyfriend: “Maybe not if we close the igloo.”

Me: “But they’d be able to smell us? What would stop a polar bear from attacking us in the middle of the night while we’re sleeping in our igloo?”

Boyfriend: “These bears are afraid of architecture…”