Fooling around.

I know, right? Why don't women say what they mean? My wife looked a me one evening a while back and asked if I wanted to mess around. I said only if she wanted to do so. She winked at me, which I took for a yes. So I started throwing chair cushions on the floor and pulled some books off the bookcase onto the floor while she looked at me like I was nuts. When I started emptying a wine bottle on the floor she yelled and asked what had gotten into me. I told her I thought she wanted to make a mess all around, but she said she was talking about sex.

I haven't had sex since.

Have you fooled around?

Thank you, CoastalRat, for my good laugh for today (or the whole week!).

She had never asked to fool around. I think it is because she knows that I would get into my clown makeup and tell jokes.

I think they're really creepy. The Kid has coulrophobia, a circus poster can induce a panic attack, I have to actively search them out so they can be ignored.

Lol, I never thought of 'fooling around' in such a manner!

It's an American phrase, despite my opening post's claims we don't use it in that context. So it's not accepted at face value.

Right from the beginning, I suspected you and Coastal Rat were in mixed relationships involving Americans and English. There has always been room for occasional miscommunications.

This one is a classic.

I've long thought of fooling around as fun, but, I'm a slut.

There is probably a song about that.