Q: What is cracked agate?

A: At first I thought it was some bizarre threat, or maybe it's a new drug, or popular music act - I'm so out of touch with today's music. I realized it could mean nothing, plain nothing. Gibberish. Kids today love to shout random gibberish at the top of their lungs. They think it's funny.

I realized I might have misheard him. He's talking real fast, running his words together. I noticed he's slurring some.

Then I saw the gate to my yard. What was left of it.

Then I saw the front of his car. And the rest of my gate.

Then I realized what he said.

Cracked a gate makes a lot of sense now.