Phoenix.pm: humor

[Doug Miles]

David A. Sinck wrote:
> Thought y'all'd enjoy this.
> 
> A few nights ago, my eldest comes to me at 2 AM or so in the morning
> complaining about roaming nightmare shadows.  Being the dutiful
> father, I stumble out of bed and go look for said thing.
> 
> son: "It was about this big."  
>      [gesture]
> me:  "mmmph"
> son: "It looked like Randal."
> me:  [WTFO, he knows Schwartz?]
>      [0.5 second passes]
> me:  [OH.  That Randal.  From Monsters Inc, the purple iguana
> 	   monster.]
> me:  Ok, look, Randal's not here. [...]
> 
> I'd like to point out that not until much later did it occur to me
> that it didn't bother me in the least to think that Schwartz being the
> source of nightmares.
> 
> I mean, who hasn't woken up screaming their first few nights alone
> with a creepy regex?
> 
> David

As a father and a Perl hacker, thanks for the laugh!