I have an ill-considered turn of phrase that I started using recently, for whatever reason - and it got me into trouble last night.
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It started one day as I was eating sunflower seeds, and Cindy walked by and tried to grab a couple of my sunflower seeds for herself.
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I jokingly guarded my hoard of seeds and said "They're not for girls!"
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"What?"
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"Uh. Yeah. The whole sunflower seeds thing - not very feminine. Very messy snack. You wouldn't like it."
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It didn't work, but it was funny at the time. So thereafter, if there was something I wanted to say "No" to, I'd just say "Not for girls!"
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The whole thing backfired on me last night during a bout of tickle-wrestling. She whacked my butt and I yelled "Ow! That's not for girls!"
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I've decided that it's time to retire that particular phrase from my vocabulary...
