a_simple_kind_of_life x Noam and Tara get home from work. Their $10 an hour dawdling maid has cleaned up for them. They walk through their garish red and leopard print living room into their gigantic stainless steel kitchen. After a little new lighting, and rearrangement, they're happy with the room. Tara makes dinner and Noam goes to the bathroom. By the time he's done, dinner is ready. After dinner, with pleasant conversation, they hug. They hug again. They talk. They dance to have some fun. Their social meters push higher. Next thing you know there's hearts above their heads and sappy music. All I have to do is keep this up periodically, and they will use the bathroom at the same time instead of shooing eachother out. 031204 ... pipedream if you make a little box of a room somewhere in the lawn and leave them in there, they'll eventually die and leave behind an urn of ashes. then their ghost will periodically scare the guests and the cat. shooing each other out. not shooting. :) 031204 ... pd sorry. it looked *just* like shooting a second back. 031204 ... jane there's that code so you can pick them up & put them anywhere - we used to drop them in the pool. 050729 what's it to you? who go blather from