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The thread "apologies to the woman at MTS" remi9nded me that it's not only 5 year olds that can stumble over their loose tongues  
 
Many years ago we had a neighbor ( A.) who owned a fairly distinctive dog. This dog was always escaping from their yard and needing to be rescued from itself ( I admit my prejudice: I'm a cat person )  
 
One day, near 1:00 pm, I was driving my daughter back to school and we saw this dog on the loose about a block away from it's/our home.  
 
So we diverted and ran this puppy to the ground. It wasn't easy - it took three quarters of an hour to catch this cute little dumb looking canine. I then dropped daughter off at school and headed towards ( A's ) house, myself now being an hour late for work  
 
Feeling very very neighborly I rang (A's ) doorbell, with mutt in arm. The door opened, there was ( A ) as well as her dog yapping away at her feet.  
 
(A. ) agreed that there was a remarkable resemblance between the two dogs. She offered to keep the facsimile until the City could send someone to pick it up, and I went on my way to work  
 
Fast forward to later that week. My wife worked at one of the stores in the (older) Shoppers Mall. I would sometimes go pick her up after work. That week, I was in the hallway outside the store waiting for her to be done work, when (A.) happened by. So we chatted up a bit, until my wife came out.  
 
Then (A.) says to my wife: " I bet you wonder what kind of dogs your husband is picking up these days "  
 
And my wife replies: " I wasn't worried... I saw that it was just you (A.) "  
 
This is the point at which I realised that my neglect in relating my dog catching adventures to my wife might possibly result in significant neighborhoud friction.  
 
All turned well in the end,  
( except for when, to this day, I bring this story up in the presence of my wife)