>> >** Trying to get two grade-schoolers out the door. >> >> I'm glad you qualified that, because otherwise it would have appeared that >> you were quite sad :-) >And I don't get this one, so we're even. :-) You said that you noticed the echo from your neighbour's house from a hand-clap at your door. The suggestion being (without qualifying the reason for it), that you lead such a sad life that you need to clap your hands at the door for excitement :-) Still... never mind :-) >> But what's a grade-schooler? >In the U.S.A., grade school = elementary school = primary school = grades one >through six Ah - I see. John