It’s Not What You Think Moment

It started out with my co-worker innocently fishing for a birthday/Christmas gift to get me. A couple of probing questions that I answered without much thought, then later as I am standing outside his office at the copier he asks me; “Have you ever tried Opium?”

I wasn’t entirely sure why he was asking except that he recently had surgery so I immediately piped up with; “Yes. It was prescribed to me once. Belladonna. Good stuff.”

He looked at me. He looked at me harder then said; “I was talking about the perfume.”

Oh, that Opium. The one they sell without a prescription. I thought you said “opiate”.