Tonight I was reading The Princess Bride to my youngest daughter. It is a wonderful book and the movies is one of the few movies that live up to the book.

This evening, we were reading where Inigo fights the man in black at the top of the Cliffs of Insanity. Inigo is losing the battle as they are both fighting left-handed.

Inigo never panicked–never came close. But he decided some things very quickly, because there was no time for long consultations, and what he decided was that although the man in black was slow in reacting to moves behind trees, and not much good at all amidst boulders, when movement was restricted, yet out in the open, where there was space, he was a terror. A left-handed black-masked terror. “You are most excellent,” he said. His rear foot was at the cliff edge. He could retreat no more.

Thank you,” the man in black replied. “I have worked very hard to become so.”

“You are better than I am,” Inigo admitted.

“So it seems. But if that is true, then why are you smiling?”

“Because,” Inigo answered, “I know something you don’t know.”

“And what is that?” asked the man in black.

At this point my oldest daughter, who happened to be listening, cut in: “I’ve just saved a bunch of money by switching to Geico.”