Paint-by-Numbers

I ran into an old friend of mine in Elk River, yesterday. She told me the following story.

"So my aunt called like a week ago. She was in Wal-Mart and she says something like: 'I just had to call you and tell you what I did today. I bought a paint-by-numbers kit. I figured my husband is at work all day and my sons are in high school so they're never home, so I bought a paint-by-numbers kit.'

"So I asked my uncle about it this weekend and he laughed. 'Yeah,' he said, 'I come home and I see her doing this paint-by-numbers thing at the kitchen table and I ask her how long she's been doing that and she says, as casual as can be, five hours. Five hours she'd been painting by numbers.' It's funny."