“You’re too easy,” she said.  “Stop it.  Be more difficult.  Scream, yell, make bodily noises at inopportune times.”

            “What is an opportune time for a bodily noise?” he asked.

            “You know, in private.  Like that saying ‘if a tree falls in a forest’?”

            “So I should fart and burp in the forest?  We live in a condo,” he said.

            “You know what I mean.  Don’t act smart,” she said and punched him in the arm.

            “I’m not acting,” he replied.

            “Har har.”

            “No, really.  Brilliance comes naturally to me,” he said.

            “Shut up already.”

            He did.  See,  he thought.  Easy.