Last weekend Carol asked me a question.
I didn’t hear the question, but she thought I did. Of course, I didn’t answer the question I hadn’t heard. And of course, that irritated her since she thought I was just being obstinate.
Can anyone see a no-win situation developing here?
A bit later she couldn’t stand it and said, “Did you not hear me ask you something a minute ago?”
I said, “No, what did you ask?” She told me, and I proclaimed my innocence. “If I had heard you I would have answered. Did you think I would just ignore you?”
She cocked her head a bit and said, “I wondered if you were just acting like a dumb-ass.”
Realizing that a pun was in the making I admitted, “Yeah, well, not speaking is like being dumb, I guess. But in this case I wasn’t being a dumb-ass, I was being a deaf-ass.”
She rolled her eyes.
I went on, “So in summary, since I neither heard the question NOR answered, I guess that makes me a deaf-and-dumb ass.”
“But,” I continued, “I’m not a deaf-and-dumb-ass from Dumas!”
She’d had enough. She walked away groaning.
(Maybe not so dumb after all, huh? At least she wasn’t still peeved at me.)
11 comments:
Oh, she was peeved, all right. Just for a different reason.
Actually that WAS pretty funny.
I think you and mr. kenju went to the same school.......LOL
HA! I had to come back and tell you that the word verification for that was
"UASKI" I thought, "you asky - I answer(y).
My husband suffers from DDAS, too! (Deaf & Dumb Ass Syndrome) Must be a man's lack of intuition that makes you unable to answer a question you didn't hear.
Karyn,
Yes, clearly that condition is gender-specific. Most women I know will answer MANY questions that were not only not heard, but never asked. This results in what is perceived by the DDAS-afflicted male as meaningless chatter, which further exacerbates his tendency to not listen.
A vicious cycle.
John
I think our wives must be related :-)
This is funny and clever, but if I were your wife, I wouldn't be able to see it that way.
"Deaf and dumb-ass." Good one. Say, John, are you related to the Bush family?
My kids are all deaf-ass, LOL!
Hey, could you pop back in to my blog and see if that last post still looks weird? I copied and pasted again from a different file, so I hope it's fixed.
Nevermind, John.
There is something goofy going on with Blogger. This time it shifted everything on the righ to the bottom of the page. When I deleted the post, it righted itself.
LOL - that was quick thinking.
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