DISAPPOINTMENT

‘I just heard a conversation,’ he said when we’d sat down. ‘But I don’t think I’ll remember it.’
I listened so I might use it later.
‘He was stood at the bar saying, “I sent her flowers and a card. I didn’t hear from her for two days, the ungrateful bitch. So I phoned her up and asked if she’d got the stuff. She said she had and then a few days after that she sent me a note saying what she’d got with the voucher I’d given her.”’
‘He was expecting too much,’ she said. ‘Bound to be disappointed.’

The next day he left a message: I knew exactly what he meant but it wasn’t until I got to his place that I found out he’d borrowed the phrase from someone else.