Originally Posted by jayeff

My own foot in mouth "moment" wasn't funny even if you were there, so one of my father's will have to do...

During my early teens we had a really bad housekeeper, but my father is one of those people who hates firing anyone so we stuck her out for a couple of years until she chose to leave. The details don't matter but the experience was enough to put my father off hiring a replacement for a long time.

However he finally decided to, placed an ad and one evening the telephone rang. He started talking and after a while I heard him say that he felt he should explain that he was being cautious because of our experience with the last housekeeper. The person on the other end must have encouraged further comment, because he began in graphic detail to describe this dreadful women and her equally dreadful daughter.

You can see it coming can't you... but believe me it wasn't obvious at the time that the woman on the 'phone was our former housekeeper