Your playfulness with the English language is fun and reminds me of a conversation I had with a woman once. She was known to be more-than-occasionally unpleasant and hard of hearing, even though she was only in her low-50’s. A small group had collected at the function and were bantering back and forth and she said something sharp to one of the other women and then turned on her heel to walk away from us.
Everyone was surprised and one of the men asked “What’s her problem?” I said she was probably just having a bad day and maybe not having enough sex. Next thing I know she’s at my elbow demanding to know what I meant by that. Before I could even think of a reply, she loudly asked “Just how much sex are YOU having?” I evenly responded “Infrequently.” She looked very smug and retorted “I thought so”, to which I added, as loudly as I dared, “Two words.” It was only when I heard a lot of people starting to laugh around us that I realized that most of the snark fest had been overheard. Then someone told me she got a hearing aid. Oops. Your wordplay post thrust that memory into my current consciousness.
“…reminds me of a conversation I had with a woman once.”
I spoke to a woman once. Then I married her.
Now some hearing loss in older people is to be expected, when SweetiePalm told me I should get my hearing checked, I didn't fight the subject. I went and got my hearing checked.
When I got home she asked, "So how's your hearing." "Top notch," I said, "No problems." "So what did he say you should do?" "He didn't have any advice for me but he did have a suggestion for you." "What's that?" "He said that you shouldn't wait until you were at the other end of the house to start telling me something."
SpyNavy
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)