Word Trouble
About these ditsy moments - I’m blonde, I have a few,
but there is one real cringer I think I’ll share with you.
Before I do, please promise me though, that you will not laugh
as the tale unfolds, re-telling my most stupid gaff.
I know I missed the deadline (my blondness yet again!)
but hopefully to tell you all will purge me of this pain.
You see I have a problem with how some words come out,
I hear them perfect in my mind, yet from my mouth they wrongly spout.
One word in particular’s now barred from my vocab,
the embarrassment it caused me almost left me in rehab.
A new bloke at the office joined us for our morning tea,
twelve of us sat in that room. Unfortunate for me!
He told us of his fiction writes and of his hopes and dreams
to one day see them published in some glossy magazines.
He said that he had recently submitted quite a few
and wanting to seem interested, I thought I’d take this cue.
I wanted to impress him, so I spoke with such finesse
“Oh wow” I said “ that’s wonderful, have you had much success?”
Well, in my MIND that’s what I said, but curs-ed by this hex
The words I blurted from my lips were “have you had much SEX?”
**Unfortunately it's very true.
And can you believe I said it again whilst interviewing someone??
So embarrassing, hence that word is now wiped from my vocabulary :)
Copyright © Sharon Tideswell | Year Posted 2010
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