Short Conversations

She: "Does this make me look fat?”

He: “Come on honey, I don’t think clothes can do that” 

He: "Now that's a coincidence!  I’ve been wondering who keeps leaving the seat DOWN!”

He thought he was being funny, but he could tell that she thought otherwise; her silent response echoed through the house, thundering like an ass-chewing from a drill sergeant at a deaf-school boot camp; the message puntuated and clarified by her use of internationally-recognized digital semaphore.