Accidental puns are the most fun

PARENTAL GUIDANCE WARNING: You are definitely not going to want to explain this one to your kids. That goes double for Mark/Dr. PT and Ralphie.

BAIL-OUT SPACE

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LAST CHANCE TO BAIL OUT.

One of these days, I have to buy a new down coat from LL Bean and return the one I recently bought. I'm 99.99% sure that the zipper is defective. Yes, I know that two-way zippers are generally more difficult to fasten, but this one's ridiculous--sometimes, it takes me as many as roughly a dozen attempts over a couple of minutes to get the "tongue" into the "pulls" properly, so that I can actually pull up the zipper. I don't think the "tongue" is exactly straight.

For some reason, the Punster has better luck getting my zipper to work properly that I do. He says it's the angle from which he's working that makes the difference. In any case, I feel like a three-year-old when he helps me zip my coat.

So there we are in the doctor's office, the Punster having just zipped my coat, when I make this brilliant comment:

"How come you can always get it in straight?"

Two seconds later: "Um, I retract that comment." I start laughing my fool head off, followed shortly by the Punster (possibly to the embarrassment of my podiatric surgeon's secretary.)

Accidental puns are the best, and when they're accidentally gross, too, all the better. :)