An askew view....

Saying that your floors are good enough to eat off of is not necessarily a good thing as my daughter Amelia observed after  eavesdropping on a phone conversation I recently had where I had said" my floors are nice enough to eat off of..." Immediately I heard giggles bubbling from my seven-year-old daughter. Choosing to pay attention to my phone call rather than to what was tickling my daughter's funnybone I continued my conversation. Her giggles soon bubbled over into full on laughter to the point where I put down the phone and asked, "Girl what are you laughing at?" A slight apprehensive look crossed her face, "Well mom like the saying goes ' if you're going to eavesdrop you better eavesdrop good'," she began, "I was just listening to you talk on the phone and I thought to myself.... if your floors are good enough to eat off of, perhaps it's time you cleaned your floors if there's that much food spilled on them!" Needless to say I could not return to my phone conversation for sometime having to stifle my laughter... How true though... And even if you're going to eavesdrop and you make sure you eavesdrop good the understanding of the message might be lost in translation! Now I better stop fooling around on the Internet and get to cleaning my floors before dinnertime!!!