The Missing Frying-Pan

Heard by the webmaster from his wife!

A lady visits her son in his new flat and is given the full tour. She sees the lounge, kitchen, dining room and bedroom, where her son has a new double bed. She also sees the lodger's room, a small, dark room with a single bed.

Her son invites her to stay for dinner and rustles up a spaghetti Bolognese. At dinner, the pair are joined by the lodger, Simon (change the name to suit if necessary!)

Mother notices that Simon, the lodger, is particularly good-looking and very attentive, and wonders if there might be just a little more to these flat-mates than she has been told.

She asks a few leading questions and her son soon catches on. He makes it quite clear:

"Mother! I know what you're thinking, but Simon is merely a lodger, he has his own room and his contributions help me with the mortgage."

Sensing the hostility the mother drops the subject.

About 10 days later, Simon comments to the son that he can't find the frying-pan.

"I haven't seen it for more than a week. We had it when your mother visited, but I haven't seen it since."

The son is sure his mother wouldn't have taken the pan, but has to agree that it seems to have disappeared when she visited.

"Well what shall I say?" he asks, "I can't just accuse her of taking it."

"Oh no," says Simon, "you'll have to be discrete."

When he next rings his mother he decides to tackle the subject.

"Mother ...", "You didn't inadvertently pick up our frying pan when you were over did you?" ... "NO! I'm not saying you did take it ... it's just that we haven't seen it since your visit."

The mother replies, "Well, I'm not saying that you are in a gay relationship with Simon, but if Simon had been sleeping in his own bed he would have found the frying pan by now!"