Grilled Chicken Insulation

I forget where I was starting out from, but I was in a car and on my way to a big house that was up in the woods, which may have been somewhere in the Charlottesville, Virginia area. After I arrived up there, there were a number of people there that were very familiar to me, but I don't seem to know most of them in waking life. John Locke (from the TV show "Lost" may have been there) Also, a woman that my wife and I refer to as "Sabine" (neighbor across the street married to Chad) was there.

I eventually wound up in the kitchen, which was a very wide open place. As I walked in, to my right was the main portion of the kitchen with the cabinets, stove, fridge, sink and all that. There was an island in the middle that actually had the sink in it, and a ledge that acted as a back splash. In front of me was the dining area, which had big windows that faced outside to the wooded area. Off to the right was a door that went out to a large patio and stairs that went down into an overgrown yard.

Here's a 3D rendering I made of the layout. The thing just inside the kitchen from the hallway entrance is the fridge. It's a bit of a funny angle and difficult to see here.










There were a couple of people in the kitchen, and Sabine was standing near me. Somehow we got to talking on the subject that we heard that grilled chicken made great insulation for a house. We had a wooden breadbox that didn't have a back to it, and we opened the front door of it. We decided that this was going to be the start of my house, and so we had a big pile of grilled chicken that we started to fit inside the breadbox just behind where the door closes.

She started out by putting one piece in on the right hand side, and then trying to put another piece in 3 inches behind it. I told her that wouldn't work because the air would get through there too easily. We proceeded to use a lot of chicken and build a "wall of chicken" in the front of the breadbox. After a little bit, all that was left was a space near the top, and so we had to start cutting pieces of chicken to fit.

We were having trouble getting the last piece to fit, and we started having doubts about this working. So we took the box and went outside to the deck area, and there were a number of people milling around out there kind of like they were looking for something or trying to map something out. We asked the one that looked like John Locke about the "Grilled Chicken As Home Insulation" theory, and he said that it should work. So we went back inside and tried some more.

As we kept trying to get pieces to fit, I started thinking about the chicken rotting or attracting bugs, and I was starting to doubt how well this would really work. I was considering stopping, but at the same time I didn't see any reason why we should.