pun of the week

i was at a friends house for a backyard fire shindig on saturday.

i noticed a book of conversation starters on their table called "getting to know you"

there were silly questions like, "who would play you in a movie of your life."

i began reading them aloud and everybody was cutting jokes.

i turned to a page with an interesting nugget...

"name something that your parents did while raising you that you will not do to your children." i read aloud.

without pausing i replied to myself...

"when i was little my mom and dad would tie us down to our beds and beat us with a pillow case with a bar of dial hand soap inside."

i paused as every person in the room turned to look at me.

"i definitely won't make the same mistake with my kids."

i looked down to the book as i thumbed to another page.

under my breath, i continued.

"i'll use irish springs."

seconds passed like eons before i looked up with a sarcastic smirk on my face.

i love bringing a room to stunned silence.