I once got a heavy breather, whom I mistook as my (now-ex) husband being frisky with me. So I began to breathe heavily, and flamboyantly, back at him.

Suddenly, I realized that a.) he wasn't kidding around and 2.) I KNEW my husband's heavy breathing and this wasn't IT.

That man called me every day for weeks until I discovered that whistling through my fingers loudly into the receiver seemed to dampen his ardor.

(OK, so it wasn't a stupid question ... still, it was a pretty stupid response to an unspoken question!)

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