"I have, in the past, imagined that squirrels were laughing at me. It's hard to tell if they really were or not. I was laughing at me, though, and the squirrels were there, and they were looking at me in what I might describe as a funny way. This is a different story from the hang gliding experiment, by the way, the hang gliding experiment worked like a charm, the laughing squirrels was when I shipwrecked on the bank of a very calm river in a large wheelbarrow full of chestnuts." He illustrates this with his hand, sailing it through the air in a leisurely way and then tipping it over sharply as though it encountered some unseen obstacle. "Clonk. In my defense, it was my first time operating a water vessel of any kind, and wheelbarrows aren't exactly known for their riverworthiness. I guess the chestnuts gave the squirrels a reason to be hanging around other than the entertainment value of watching the tall human fail at things."

Nibble nibble muffin.