B is for

B is for Ben, B+ (which I got in Torts), and Bomb Squad (which made an appearance at SMU yesterday)!

I was supposed to be in a meeting in the Blanton Building at 2 p.m., but got a call beforehand that the building had been evacuated. Seemed that a staff member in the mailroom there opened an envelope with a powdery black substance inside. Some of the mysterious substance got inside a cut on the employee’s hand and started burning. They reported the incident, the building was evacuated, and a swarm of police officers and the bomb squad showed up.

Turns out it was some kind of cooking spice.

I told Chel about this and she recalled a time in her childhood when she wrote a letter to a friend. On the outside of the envelope, she wrote in big block letters, “YOU’RE THE BOMB,” which is one way to tell a person you think they’re cool.

Then, she took it a step further by scratching that out and writing, “NO, THIS LETTER IS THE BOMB!”

She dropped it in the mail and didn’t think anything more of it, until a couple of days later when the letter was returned in a ziploc bag after having been torn to shreds by the postal service. Included was a warning about possible criminal prosecution for using the “B” word on an envelope.

I guess some “B” words are better than others!