good laugh at my wifes expense!

[RitterKreuz]

The other day, shortly after making the comment that she needed a bag of marshmallows for a recipe, my wife said she was going to town for some items and asked if i needed anything.

I told her that we needed some milk, and some fresh lunch meat and then i said "oh wait, stop by Lowes and go to their gardening center and buy a marshmallow tree... they're cheap as hell and you wont have to buy marshmallows anymore you can just pick them fresh."

I held a perfectly straight face and immediately went back to doing whatever it was that i was busy with.

she looked puzzled for a moment, but then said "oh.. ok so in the gardening section then... like where you would buy a lemon tree?"

"yes sweety right around in there, thanks"

so out the door she goes.

I really should have let her go through with it but i would have felt horrible and would have slept on the couch for the next month so i called her up before she got to the store and explained that i was joking!

BUT WHAT A GOOD ONE!  ;D  ;)

[expat]

You are a very, very brave man!!

Matt

[DaveSims]

I'd have let her go.  




But that's because my couch is more comfortable than my bed. LOL

[RitterKreuz]

i could imagine the conversation that would follow if i HAD let her go through with it!

"What in THE hell is wrong with you?! making me go to the store to get a MARSHMALLOW TREE?!?!?! WTF?!?!"

and while receiving that earful...

on the exterior im =  :-[

on the interior im  ;D  ;D  ;D

[eno]

You  [smiley=evil.gif] ..........  but you are a chicken too !!

[Hai Perso Coyone?]

LMAO! Gotta try that once I'm married

[Gunny04]

Well the problem with something like this is they don't realize that they've assumed..... or werent paying attention.... Trust me I know, My GF went balistic when I let my sarcasm get a little too serious..... Took me about 20 minutes to get that messed fixed up  

Gunny

[flymo]

you should of phoned loews and told em to stick some marshmellows on a small twiggy tree and give it her for $5

[quote]Well the problem with something like this is they don't realize that they've assumed..... or werent paying attention.... Trust me I know, My GF went balistic when I let my sarcasm get a little too serious..... Took me about 20 minutes to get that messed fixed up

[Mobius]

We've sent guys to the hardware store at work to buy buckets of steam, a left-handed hammer, and blue-sky hooks, because the scaffolding wasn't tall enough.

[kingmarktheaviator]

At cadets, I was in charge and we seriously set up one or two of the newer lads.  I am guilty on one count of making somebody look gullible.  I sent him off to find a bucket of elbow grease.  We have also done a set up asking them to get some Tartan paint.  Oh yeah, and the time we sent someone for a "Long Wait"  Wait being weight in that context lol.  After 30 minutes we went to him and told him that he had been..."screwed over"
Some of our victims saw the funny side, one girl however got in a massive strop and wouldnt communicate with any of the NCOs for the entire weekend!  It took a telling-off by the staff for her to start saying "Yes Sergeant/Sir" after each comment!!!!  We made her out to look like a pillock by doing that a lot too.
We weren't bullying, it happens to EVERY cadet.  I had it once
It is bloody funny though.

Cheers,
Mark

[RitterKreuz]

i liked sending students to the maintenance hangar for some "prop wash"  ::)

another good one when making a fire on camp outs in scouts was to send new scouts out looking for "left handed smoke shifters... it has to be left handed because the right handed ones only work when the wind is out of the northeast or east"

[farmerdave]

Also you can always have them check their car's "blinker fluid."

[expat]

Sometimes it can backfire. I once sent a guy to the store for some fallopian tubing. He though he was clever enough not to get caught out by us and stood his ground. No, I really want you to go and get some. He refused. I had to go myself. I came back with fallopian tubing, 1/4 inch silicon tubing. He still did not believe that is what it is called.  :-/

Matt

[Woodlouse2002]

An old one on sailing ships was to send the apprentice to get red and green paraffin for the navigation lights. A friend of my parents once sent his girlfriend out for some paraffin for the nav lights and she just assumed she needed to get a bottle of red paraffin and a bottle of green. A couple of hours later she came back with some red and blue paraffin saying she couldn't find any green stuff.