Killing time on the way to Tahoe.

- We were both talking about potluck etiquette earlier, and I wanted to ask your opinion about it.  Single people have to bring a whole dish to a potluck, and you’d expect couples to bring two dishes, but we’ve noticed that most couples only bring one dish--

- You’re asking Greg about this?  Okay, but be careful because he’ll have strong opinions about--

- Damn right most couples only bring one dish.  Single people essentially act as a kind of potluck proletariat, forced to do most of the work to subsidize the entire event while couples do half the work and reap twice the benefit.  It’s a class system that perpetuates itself time and time again.  Couples should bring two dishes.  There’s two of them.  Hence the term “couple.”

- The funny thing is, we always bring two dishes.  I think it’s because we were friends before we got married, so we’re still kind of independent, and we’re used to doing things separately, like bringing dishes to potlucks.

- Well, that’s why I’ve always seen the two of you as freedom fighters, of a sort.

- But whenever we bring two dishes, people are surprised.  They say ‘We only expected you to bring one dish because you’re a couple.’

- That just goes to show you how our society gets used to injustice.  When people see justice, they don’t recognize it.  They’re like, ‘What is this?  I don’t know what this is.  It’s certainly not justice.  It must be something else entirely.’