General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Another footwear one from the seventies.

Myself and my then girlfriend had developed a weird way of communicating.

We did not pay the bill: we paid the 'duck with a hat on'.
Arriving home after arduous day's work, we did not slip into our slippers: we put on our lesbians. (comfortable shoes)

You get it, punchlines of jokes and similar stood in for what we meant.

It had already caused a misunderstanding, A couple with whom we socialised a lot let it be known that they were peeved we never invited them along to this nightclub to which we disappeared. HA HA, no. Sir Lancelot's = an early night!

One day, she had phoned me at work, and I did not take the call on my phone, but in the reception/secretaries office with lots of other's milling around.

I said to her, "I am, more or less coming straight home, but I am going to stop off briefly in the city centre to pick up a pair of lesbians, would you like me to pick up a pair for you whilst I am at it"?

And of course on finishing the call, I saw everyone was staring at me with a rather shocked expression!

I did not know that I blushed, but was told that on this occasion I did.