Have You Ever....

[gness]

...fished for a compliment and been taken aback by what you got?
A couple of threads on here brought this to mind.
Once, during many years of illness OH was given six days respite from hospital and home treatment. JOY! We decided to set of for France to join friends in their rented cottage.
I did the driving. A long motorway journey. Confusion and hold ups at the tunnel. Desperate hunts for loos (OHs illness not my bladder). Detours and thunderstorms in France. Torrential rain and such a long search for the village so remote I renamed it Brigadoon. But we made it!
Exhausted I turned to OH and said "What a journey. What d`you think?"
Well driven would have done.
He looked at me and said........."I think you should pluck that hair on your chin before it gets any longer".

[vulcan]

Years ago I was at a party with my wife and I heard her say to a friend that I was a model husband. Mentally preening myself I then heard Her say, "of course a model is a small replica of the real thing". She said she knew I was listening but I have my doubts. :o)

[gness]

Oh we always know when you`re listening Vulcan. And when you`re pretending not to!

[vulcan]

I suppose there's no point in asking how ?

[gness]

Nope!

[askyourgran]

I was a bit put out when the butcher asked when my baby was due.She was two months old outside the shop in her pram.

[paddywak]

I was once asked by the girls behind the bar of my local what I thought of the new hair style one of them had got. I asked if they wanted the truth or did they want to hear some thing nice. They said the truth, I told them and for the next three weeks I could only get served by the steward. It taught me to think twice before answering a lady when they're fishing for compliments

[gness]

For wet fish read chops ATG.

[gness]

Something every man should learn at their Mother`s knee Paddy.

[grasscarp]

My sister and I both fancied same boy. One day I asked him who he liked best out of her and me. He immediately said "I can't stand either of you"

[gness]

Taken aback too then Grass!

[paddywak]

That may be gness but I have two elder sisters and I just got used to telling them the truth whether we liked it or not.