The apocalypse is nigh

Tagalong and Mr. Samoa's parents each sent us anniversary cards. On time even! Early, at that! This is so notable because of what they used to do, to wit, do nothing, then when some third party (one of Tagalong's friends or whatever) would mention it, they would go into this big overblown, "Oh, tee-hee, we, like, meant to and stuff, but it just totally slipped our minds!" routine. Finally, one year I lost it. I said, "No, you didn't. If you had meant to you would have done it. If you don't want to send cards or whatever, that's your business entirely, but don't claim you were going to when clearly you didn't intend to do anything of the sort!" I think that was year before last. Last year, we got late cards, which we were actually suitably impressed by. This year they are on time even! I would like to think that this represents improvement, but cynical old hag that I am, I'm wondering which of them has a major house or computer part broken that needs fixed. :P