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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

A QUESTION OF IDENTITY?


A CASE of MISTAKEN IDENTITY or MISINTERPRETATION 

 A 'quid pro quo' always makes for a fun story! Here it is.

Dylan is in line waiting (in a queue) at his local supermarket when all of a sudden, he notices that the very good-looking (dishy) redhead behind him in the queue has just raised her hand and is giving him a big 'Hello'.

He is rather taken aback that such a ‘looker’ would be waving to him, and although her face is vaguely familiar, Dylan can't place where he might know her from, so he says, ‘Sorry, do you know me?’

She replies, ‘I could be mistaken, but I think that you might be the father of one of my children.’

Dylan's mind shoots back to the one and only time he had been unfaithful, ‘Good Grief!’ he says, 'Did we meet at Frank’s bachelor party in Toronto?’ Dylan continues, 'When I was released from the police station that night and got back to the hotel room, you had left!'

‘No!' she replies smiling … ‘I'm your son's English teacher.'


6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Suzanne !
This story is very funny and very easily to understand!
See you soon !
Have good time at your cottage.

Céline Brien

Anonymous said...

Hi Suzanne,

Would he have quid pro quo if Dylan had a clear conscience... Then, how the story would have finished?

Here is an other quid pro quo but in French:
Je vais inviter sept amis !
Je n'ai pas bien entendu. Combien serez-vous chez vous ?
J'ai dit "sept".
Ah ! Dix-sept.
Non j'ai dit "sept" sans "dix".
Ah ! Cent dix ! Mais c'est un banquet.

Unfortunately, it's impossible to translate.

Bye

Huguette

Anonymous said...

Very good! Were you the redhead?:)LOLL
Mel

Suzanne said...

Hi!
Huguette,
You certainly made a good point!
WOULD there have been a quid pro quo?

Now HOW WOULD the story have finished ... without the guilty conscience, welll, there probably wouldn't have been a joke!!

Suzanne ;)

Suzanne said...

Céline,
HI!
Glad to see you are still reading.
Now I'm content to see that you found this stoty amusing and easy to understand!
There will be more coming during this summer break!

Suzanne
P.S. the answer might not be as fast coming though!

Suzanne said...

Hi!
Melanie,
YESSSS! The red head and the English teacher!

Suzanne