Into the wild Blurts and faux pas – when you don’t know what the right thing to say is until you’ve already said the wrong one
Date not needed The audio for “Date not needed” is featured in this episode ☝️ of the Without a hitch podcast“Key please!” A checkout assistant is calling for the supervisor. I’ve scanned a bottle of wine, and now the red light on top of my self-checkout station is flashing. People are generally
You lost me there There was this cartoon I used to watch in the early nineties called Bobby’s World. The intro, featuring the most inane and hypnotic music imaginable, might jog your memory. After the music ended, actor Howie Mandel (who went on to host Deal or No Deal) would talk to Bobby
Evil little cacti Kiwifruit, Viagra and the gift of rain – on trying and failing to develop a work ethic
Breach The whale breaches Enveloped by water, the whale has poise. It produces sounds like an experimental synth band broadcasting from the deep. Most undersea footage shows the whale gliding, all slow motion grace, past the lens of a diver’s camera; David Attenborough says something to the effect of “The
Giddy heights A short tall man, Bill Murray, some elastic stick people and an intrusion of Japanese cockroaches A short tall man I’m a short tall man. A fraction shy of six foot three, my head sometimes brushes low ceilings or doorways. I may have to stoop to get under low
Perceptions: Mouse vs mouse My wife and I perceive mice differently. I see the wee field mouse on the left. She sees the super poisonous rodent demon on the right. We all have our strengths and weaknesses. I certainly have more weaknesses than her (I won't list them here; I'm