Dense Fog Advisory

There's some kind of little weather-tracking thingy on my toolbar that frequently pops up with a red stop-signed shaped thing with an exclamation mark in the middle. It's supposed to be a dire warning about an urgent weather alert that's been issued.

In my opinion, urgent weather alerts should be the sorts of things that save your lives. Tell me it's urgent and prod me with your pop-up exclamation point if I need to know about a lightning storm that's going to zap everything in my house (it's happened before) so I can run unplug stuff. Tell me it's urgent and send up your little stop sign if I need to stop what I'm doing and get in a closet because a tornado is coming. Or a hurricane. That's urgent.

But for Pete's sake, if all you've got to worry about is dense fog, leave me out of it. In fact, I think I know where the real dense fog is -- between somebody's doomsday-hungry ears.

Comments

[Indiana Keetha]

I thought you were going to talk about a "dense fog of the brain" alert - - - that's the kind I need around here.