{"id":1002,"date":"2025-12-20T04:09:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T04:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pasioncondal.com\/blog\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2025-12-28T19:24:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T19:24:38","slug":"the-titanic-incident-part-1-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pasioncondal.com\/blog\/the-titanic-incident-part-1-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Titanic incident (part 1\/3)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1002\" class=\"elementor elementor-1002\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3b60c06 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3b60c06\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-43902220 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"43902220\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4><em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">A Hissing Resources Emergency Meeting<br \/><\/em><em>Minutes taken (begrudgingly) by Luna M Whiskers, COO, MBA (Master of Bananarchy Administration).<\/em><\/h4>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} --><\/p>\n<h5><strong>Discovery:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><!-- \/wp:heading --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Luna (entering the living room, suspicious): <\/strong>\u2026Why is the TV warm? Why is the <em>remote<\/em> sticky? Why is there a tiny paw print on the \u201cPlay\u201d button?<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tartiflette (standing dramatically on the coffee table, a dish towel tied like a cape, trembling): <\/strong>Luna\u2026<strong>Luneeeeettaaaa<\/strong><strong>\u2026<\/strong><em>THE WATER BETRAYED THEM.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Luna: <\/strong>Oh sweet motherboard of mercy, what did you WATCH now?!<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tarti (collapsing into a heap): <\/strong>THE SHIP WAS SO BIG, LUNA. SO BIG. WHY DID THEY NOT SEE THE ICE CUBE??? WHY DID JACK TURN INTO A FLOATING POPSICLE???WHY DID THE GREEDY LADY NOT SHARE THE RAFT??? I HAVE QUESTIONS.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Luna:<\/strong><br \/>\u2026<br \/>Mama<em> is going to ask why the cat is sobbing into a dish towel again and I refuse to explain this.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} --><\/p>\n<h5><strong>Charlotte arrives, already fed up and she does not even know what is going on:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><!-- \/wp:heading --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1008 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pasioncondal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Tarti-Titanic-500x333.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pasioncondal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Tarti-Titanic-500x333.webp 500w, https:\/\/www.pasioncondal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Tarti-Titanic-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.pasioncondal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Tarti-Titanic-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.pasioncondal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Tarti-Titanic-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.pasioncondal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Tarti-Titanic-850x567.webp 850w, https:\/\/www.pasioncondal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Tarti-Titanic.webp 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Charlotte (entering like the Downtown Abbey Dowager): <\/strong>What\u2026 what is this racket? Why is the goblin wailing like she just lost her crown in Miss Chaos International?<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tarti (flinging herself at Charlotte\u2019s paws): <\/strong>CHARLOTTE, DID YOU KNOW HUMANS CAN BECOME POPSICLES WHILE FLOATING?? DO YOU KNOW ABOUT ISEEBURGS??? DO YOU KNOW ABOUT TRAGIC DOOMED ROMANCES???<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Charlotte:\u00a0<\/strong>Oh NO. No no no, absolutely NOT. We are <em>not<\/em> doing a tragic romance arc. We barely survived her <em>Annie<\/em> <em>era<\/em>. I will NOT endure \u201cMy Heart Will Go On\u201d at 3 a.m.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tarti: <\/strong>TOOOTALLY WILL GO OOOOON\u2014<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Charlotte: <\/strong><em>DON\u2019T YOU DARE START THAT SONG!!!!<\/em> I have <em>teeth<\/em>, child.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} --><\/p>\n<h5><strong>Emergency meeting in the kitchen<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><!-- \/wp:heading --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Luna: <\/strong>I hereby call this meeting to order. The agenda:<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:list {\"ordered\":true} --><\/p>\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><!-- wp:list-item --><\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol>\n<li>How did the baby get access to the remote?<\/li>\n<li>How do we prevent her from re-enacting the ship scene on top of the Roomba?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><!-- \/wp:list-item --><!-- wp:list-item --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:list-item --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:list --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ziggy (half-asleep): <\/strong>\u2026mmm\u2026 let her ride the Roomba\u2026 call it research\u2026<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1003 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pasioncondal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_1355-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"301\" height=\"401\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lilith (staring into the void): <\/strong>I saw this coming. In a vision. The Small One\u2026 standing on the Roomba whispering \u201cI\u2019ll never let go\u2026\u201d The Roomba heading for the stairs. Glorious chaos.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Charlotte: <\/strong>This is EXACTLY why human children have supervision. We are FAILING as an organization.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Luna (scribbling notes): <\/strong>All right, solutions. Ziggy? TARTI!!!! STAY AWAY FROM MY HIGHLIGHTERS!!!!! YOU WILL POOP BLUE FOR A WEEK *AGAIN* AND KAREN WILL BLAME ME!<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ziggy:<\/strong>\u2026nap on the remote forever so no one can use it.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Luna: <\/strong>Passive but pretty realistic. Lilith?<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lilith: <\/strong>Banish the remotes to the shadow realm.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Charlotte: <\/strong>What does that even MEAN?! Is that under the couch or a different plane of existence?<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lilith: <\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Luna: <\/strong>Charlotte?<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Charlotte: <\/strong>I hate Lilith<strong>.<\/strong> Honestly? We force iaia to password lock the TV. Something the baby can\u2019t guess like the word \u201c<em>responsibility\u201d<\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Luna: <\/strong>COLD. Effective. Approved.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} --><\/p>\n<h5><strong>Tarti\u2019s encore<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><!-- \/wp:heading --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tarti (reappears wearing a blanket like a cape, standing on a chair): <\/strong>EVERYBODY LOOK AT ME. I AM KING OF THE WORLD.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>All cats in unison: <\/strong>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Roomba (starting up in the hallway): <\/strong><em>brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Luna: <\/strong>Oh for the love of spreadsheets, SOMEONE STOP HER&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Charlotte: <\/strong>I CAN\u2019T TAKE ANOTHER MUSICAL NUMBER<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ziggy: <\/strong>\u2026wake me when she hits the wall\u2026<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lilith: <\/strong>The prophecy unfolds\u2026<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tarti: <\/strong>HOLD me, Charlotte! 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