Friday, July 9, 2010

The Understatement of the Century

A colleague of mine recently described the spousal unit as “freakin’ enormous.” I repeated the remark to him this evening, and it made him cross.

“I am not ‘freakin’ enormous,’” he retorted. “I am a presence.”

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ouch! :-)

Typstatting said...

Now that is a great comeback!!!!!

Packrat said...

Hahahaha. Good one. (Nice looking, if I may say so!)

Shay said...

Yeah...(sigh). We met in Korea when he was seconded to my regiment for a firex. All it took was one look across that ops tent!

I had to wrassle the embark officer for him.

(luckily he didn't like her).