[CFrance]

A great malapropism (from my friend): We had a neighbor who was also a house painter. I asked him to come in and look at painting the family room.

We discussed what needed doing and he asked me for my color preference. Not being gifted in the color department, I told him so and asked him to recommend his choice. "No, no," he insisted, "the choice must be yours." "But Ashley," I insisted, "I really am not good at this and I don’t want to choose because I’ll probably get it wrong." "Now, now," he replied, "I don’t want to hear any of that self-defecation." And so it has been, ever since.