Stuff for Mundanes!

Those of us that spend all of our space cash on model railway equipment, music and games sometimes wonder what the 'mundunes' spend their money on.

The truth is scary. Making Light has discovered an on-line catalogue with such delights as "sea-shell toilet seats", "cat and cow floor protectors", and "Easter-themed doorknob pillows". Ugh!

Teresa's digression is illuminating:

"There's a reality show on TLC called Trading Spaces. The idea is that two households swap homes for 48 hours. During that time, each redecorates one room of the other's house, with the help of the show's crew of designers and carpenters.

Patrick found the whole thing confusing. "I've never understood this 'interior decorating' stuff," he told me, the first time he saw an episode.

"Okay. By our standards, mundanes own hardly any books."

"Uh-huh?"

"Interior decoration is what they do with all that empty space."