I'll go first.
"I can't become a nun now. I've just bought a new hat!"
Spoken on the phone to a friend who was studying in Rome at the time. He was on his cell phone and was dodging the insane Rome traffic. I had just come home from a week-long retreat in a Benedictine monastery.
OK, now you.
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You absolutely did say that! I remember it clear as day! Crazy girl got too much milliner's mercury in her blood.
"The pain in my knee is older than I am." I had been sleeping, and was only semi-conscious, but it made perfect sense to me at the time.
-mary ann
"If you are going to steal ice cream, you shouldn't hide it in your armpits."
I was caring for a person with developmental issues. She denied that she had attempted to stealice cream, but it was a hot summer day and I could see it very clearly melting down her sides and into her socks.
My husband informed me that I had woken him by talking in my sleep. I had apparently intoned: "Then were the toes worried."
This happened just yesterday, someone phoned asking for my deceased father and I responded without thinking:
"I'm sorry he died a few years ago, can I take a message?"
"Margaret Atwood has a point." Uttered not afore nor since.
Jeremy
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