His simple question ended with a college degree in the trash. He asked his wife how she would escape a forest without a phone signal or GPS, expecting a sensible answer—not a rock, a wild animal, and absolute confidence. Then she revealed what her father had taught her, and he could only stare before delivering his own devastating ans…
The husband offered a hypothetical wilderness predicament, but his wife approached it as a problem already solved. She would locate a large stone, find a coyote, and attempt to strike it. Her explanation came straight from her father: scare the animal, and it would head toward the city.
Following it, she reasoned, would lead her back to civilization. She sounded completely certain. Across from her, her husband fell quiet, trying to absorb the unexpected logic.
