Fritz

Now now, settle down, I know what you're thinking -
'Three blog posts so soon after one another?' Nat must be trying to write an essay'.

Har har, very funny.

No I am not failing to produce passable legal commentary - life has just been stupidly laughable recently. Case in point: our autogate malfunctioned earlier this week. And it wasn't due to the assumptions that after 6 years of faithful opening and closing at our behest, the poor thing has finally reached its end of days.

Btdubs, I love the word 'malfunction'. 'Our gate has malfunctioned' sounds like I have a lot more engineery knowledge than I actually do. The alternative being, 'the bastard thing is on the fritz'.

Anywhoo, we finally got the gate-repair guy to take a look, and lo and behold, the fault lay not with our gate. T'was in fact (and I kid you not) a lizard, dead and semi-barbecued on the circuit board.

What was found in real life was nowhere as adorable, or funny as the representation.
And lord, did it stink.  

People* can keep their 'monkey wrench in the works'. I'm permanently replacing that saying with 'dead lizard in the circuitry'.

nk.

*except for Australians. I don't even want to know what they dig up spring-cleaning.