Conversations with my mother #67321
Mum: [Points to celery in salad bowl] Help yourself to the .... Oh. I've forgotten the word.
Me: [as helpful as usual] Tiger?
Mum: No.. It's... Ach...
Dad: ?
Mum: Oh what's the word? A,B,C...
Me: Lion
Mum: ..L,M.. Starts with M.
Me: Maggot
Mum: There are no maggots in my salad. [Looks at Dad] You know, a vegetable starting with M
Dad: [Blinking slowly] Lettuce ?
Mum: With an M!
Dad: Tomato?
Mum: You're as bad as he is.
Mum: Anyway I was saying that T[..] is closing down the town. It's been in their family three generations. Apparently the police raided the son's house and took away his computer. It was full of photos of you-know-what.
Dad: [not paying attention]. Celery!
Me: I'm going to the next room to phone for the big white van.
Mum: Ha. Ha. If we were as bad as all that they wouldn't let us vote in the referendum.
Me: [innocently] What referendum?
Mum: Next time send M[..]. He's much more pleasant than you.
:D
Me: [as helpful as usual] Tiger?
Mum: No.. It's... Ach...
Dad: ?
Mum: Oh what's the word? A,B,C...
Me: Lion
Mum: ..L,M.. Starts with M.
Me: Maggot
Mum: There are no maggots in my salad. [Looks at Dad] You know, a vegetable starting with M
Dad: [Blinking slowly] Lettuce ?
Mum: With an M!
Dad: Tomato?
Mum: You're as bad as he is.
Mum: Anyway I was saying that T[..] is closing down the town. It's been in their family three generations. Apparently the police raided the son's house and took away his computer. It was full of photos of you-know-what.
Dad: [not paying attention]. Celery!
Me: I'm going to the next room to phone for the big white van.
Mum: Ha. Ha. If we were as bad as all that they wouldn't let us vote in the referendum.
Me: [innocently] What referendum?
Mum: Next time send M[..]. He's much more pleasant than you.
:D