Back during the half remembered battle that was my marriage,
my ex and I were visiting some friends of ours. They, too, were a married couple destined to break on the rocks of life, but in this case, although the guy was a friend of mine and generally a top bloke, it turned out that he treated his missus, a very nice young lady, like shite and often had very public, over the top rage fits ending in half the house being trashed or some such.

But he seemed like a throughly decent bloke with a razor sharp wit. Behind closed doors and all that.

So there we are. We're sitting having a conversation which somehow veered off into a minor disagreement between the two of them. During this very minor spat, the retort "that's because you're a fucking witch" was uttered.

The guffaw that I emitted was made all the worse by the stunned silence of everyone else in the room. Where I had thought this was a playful taunt between a couple having a pretend tiff, it was actually a spiteful comment that had genuinely hurt her. And I went "Bwoooahahahaha.... oh."

Oops. Well, it's not my fault, I didn't know he was a mentallist at that point.
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 17:47, Reply)