`` your request makes absolutely no sense , which means that either you are not telling me everything or you have gone mad . thats what i said to him , but he said it was part of his act . i wish our house could lie on the railroad tracks , on wheels , and carry us out of town , but we 're on the right side near the country club . i 'd have to add it to my ever-growing list of things i did n't have the answers to . why had n't he said he was interested ? 