Must be the water...
I had a 'friend' once who was confrontational, desperately after the girl I was interested in at the time and a tad slow. Very gullable in fact, so here's his story...

At the time we lived in Derbyshire and said friend had just found out about the difference between hard water and soft water and that they occur in different areas. We are at our shared eyecandy interest's house when I offer to make a cup of tea, in line with the Derbyshire upbringing, so lady and myself venture into the kitchen leaving friend in the living room.

The kettle is turned on and the question of sugar is raised. His reply of "yes" turns me on to an idea both evil and hilarious, put some sugar in his tea yes, but add some salt and somehow trick him. Lady and I share a giggle about this and so some salt is added to the brew.

Friend takes a sip of his tea and instantly questions the integrity of my tea-making skills, at which point I say to him, "yes, it is a funny taste, we're in a hard-water area down here you see."

We were quite literally half a mile away from his house where he presumably drank normal, non-hard water tea...

He's currently your friendly stock-control monkey at a rather large supermarket in the area that rhymes with Bainsbury's.

Apologies for length, it usually only hurts the first few times.
(CptFantastic stopped doing work on, Mon 22 Sep 2008, 16:36, Reply)