Giant Gummi Bear

Tonight's discussion was about giant gummi bears. I have NO idea how we made it to this topic, but the boy and I had a very long talk about what we would do if a giant gummi bear ate our apartment building.

We agreed that the gummi bear picked up the building from the top, ripped it from the ground, and swallowed it whole, starting from the first floor. We both thought that being upright in the apartment would be better. We agreed that everyone inside the building would survive, but we argued over what would happen with the gummi innards.

He was pretty sure that the windows would be crushed, and that we would end up suspended in gummi. I disagreed, saying that gummi is actually very sturdy stuff, and the windows would feel pressure but would not break. I also said that if they broke it would be ok, as my escape plan was to open a window and eat my way to safety. He thought we would have too much to eat, and that we would have to tunnel out, but first we would have to break free.

After a long debate over the properties of gummi versus jelly or jello consistency we realized that we needed a tiebreaker. Luckily Wendall was relaxing in a warm bath, and had full use of his rational mind.

He asked us if the building had been pulled out of the ground and eaten immediately. We affirmed that it had. He then smiled and reminded us of all of the water in the pipes. It would run out of the pipes and into the gummi bear's belly. Gummi dissolves in water, so the building would simply slip through the hole that the water created.

I'm so glad we had a rational mind to look at the situation in a new light. I kept picturing the bear to be orange, my least favorite, and I was really unhappy that I would have to eat so much of it to escape!