Which Reminds Me

At my first job after college, at Vida Publishers, one day someone called and asked for one of my bosses, Harold Mintle, and I told the person that he was "out to lunch" at the time. My supervisor, Carol Long overheard me saying that, laughingly scolded me about that, saying that such a thing might be interpreted as that I was telling someone that Harold Mintle is crazy. Oh, I hadn't thought of it that way. I was just thinking that he was out of the office, having gone to lunch. But yes, I suppose that some snarky person could make hay with that. So I should probably not say this and not say that. And I suppose that the list would be endless of things that I should not say if I have to worry about what some snarky person might do with that.