Hard of Hearing

Underhearing is overhearing but wrong. Today, I underheared a father say the following: My six year old son is death. Man, I think, that can't be fun. Small dude with a cloak? Yeah I think I've seen him around. Thankfully I realised my error before I asked him to put in a good word for me. It's a shame, because a personal connection to the Grim Reaper would certainly be a useful contact for the blackberry. It got me thinking though, what with this booming population and the wars, famines and plagues to go with it, Death must be considering a hardware upgrade. One of those big sit-on lawnmowers perhaps? A combine harvester with go-faster stripes? At the very least a strimmer. I mean, he’s got a lot of souls to harvest, and a scythe just ain’t gonna cut it.