A man is picking some apples from the fruit counter at the supermarket when a young and attractive woman beside him turns, smiles and says hello.
He can't remember ever having seen her before, but smiles and nods politely. "Err, hello," he says.
The woman can see he doesn't recognise her, and apologises. "I'm sorry," she says. "I mistook you for someone else. When I saw you there I assumed you were the father of one of my children."
She pushes her trolley off and resumes shopping.
The man is confused and stunned. The woman looks smart, she's well-spoken, and yet she can't keep track of the fathers of all her children. What is the world coming to?
But maybe ...
He then starts to wonder if maybe he has met her before. Back years ago when he was at university they all had some pretty wild times. He'd sown a lot of wild oats, and it was perfectly possible that he had fathered some children without knowing about it.
Now he panicked, and ran out of the supermarket and caught up with the woman as she was loading her shopping into her car.
"I realised we might have met years ago," he says. "Are you the girl I met at a party in college. We got really drunk and had sex on the floor while everyone was watching cheering us on?"
"Err no," she says. "I'm your son's primary school teacher."
He can't remember ever having seen her before, but smiles and nods politely. "Err, hello," he says.
The woman can see he doesn't recognise her, and apologises. "I'm sorry," she says. "I mistook you for someone else. When I saw you there I assumed you were the father of one of my children."
She pushes her trolley off and resumes shopping.
The man is confused and stunned. The woman looks smart, she's well-spoken, and yet she can't keep track of the fathers of all her children. What is the world coming to?
But maybe ...
He then starts to wonder if maybe he has met her before. Back years ago when he was at university they all had some pretty wild times. He'd sown a lot of wild oats, and it was perfectly possible that he had fathered some children without knowing about it.
Now he panicked, and ran out of the supermarket and caught up with the woman as she was loading her shopping into her car.
"I realised we might have met years ago," he says. "Are you the girl I met at a party in college. We got really drunk and had sex on the floor while everyone was watching cheering us on?"
"Err no," she says. "I'm your son's primary school teacher."