Foot in Mouth Disease

These articles always promise to bring information, controversy, humour or moments of reflection on a variety of subjects. Sometimes the humour is at my expense. This week is one of those weeks. It started when I made a bit of a faux pas in front of a stunned and speechless audience. Here’s my version of events…
 
I was supporting the opening of a good friend’s new business in Bushey. Spotting a pause in conversation between a group of about eight people, I took it upon myself to try and encourage a young boy who had sat quietly and politely throughout, to come out of his shell.
 
“So, who lays claim to this young man?” I asked, expecting to discover whose son he was. The deathly hush that followed should have signalled the warning bells, but undeterred I repeated the question, and a little louder, assuming I hadn’t been heard. “So, who lays claim to this young man?” This time I did at least suspect that something was very wrong by the silence and the succession of faces looking uncomfortably down at their shoes.
 
The young lad turned out not to be that young. In fact, worse still, ‘he’ turned out not even to be a lad. ‘He’ was a ‘she’ and I had just very publicly humiliated her. If she wasn’t coming out of her shell before, she sure as hell wasn’t about to now! Try digging yourself out of that hole!! The hairs on the back of my neck still go up just thinking about it.
 
The week didn’t improve either. I was entertained at the West Ham v Blackburn Premiership game last weekend. After my pre-match meal I requested an Amaretto to finish this part of festivities off. Now there are probably places that ordering an Amaretto would be considered quite sophisticated, indeed positively bohemian. I now know Upton Park is not one of them! Turns out they don’t even offer Amaretto on their drinks menu as apparently there isn’t a huge call for it amongst football fans. The look on the waitress’ face was priceless, and only trumped by the guests at my table and anyone else’s in earshot. Fair to say I took some stick! Still, we live and learn, I may move on to Bailey’s in the future.
 
On a slightly brighter note for the week, I’d like to say a big thank you to all the support for the Imagine website. We had a record number of visitors in January, with a record number of over 35,000 pages of content being viewed. If you are considering selling or letting your home, and want your home to be getting that amount of interest, call us today for a free valuation of your home.