Hi, MichAel!
 
 MN> All part of the main plot.  The related subplot component was where I
 MN> pitched her off the roof of the barn and into the 
 MN> dung heap in the back.
 MN> She's the one who chose the dung heap, though; a la 
 MN> Hobson's choice.  It
 MN> was either jump for the dung heap or fall and go splat on the ground,
 MN> and she didn't really know that it was a dung heap until she landed in
 MN> it.  It did not improve her first impression of Planet Earth, though.
 
Sounds very... Heinlein-ish in a positive comparative way.
 
Chris
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