"Genuine" Mistake...

My sister is the friendly sort…
She is the type of girl who usually goes out of her way to meet new people.

She’s also tricky…

Sometimes I call her Tricky Vicki…

Her name happens to be Vicki, thus the cool, rhyming nickname…

There actually aren’t any ‘cool’ words you can rhyme with my name… so PLEASE don’t even try to give me a cool rhyming nickname…
I’ve tried and none meet my approval…
i.e. Wacky Jackie (Clown name!)
Khaki Jackie (Reporting for duty! Sir-yes-sir!)

Back to my T.V. (Tricky Vicki) story…

As I mentioned before, she likes to extend the branch of friendliness… or is that the hand of friendship? Branch… Hand…. Whatever it may be…. DARN-IT!! She’s extending it…

One Sunday, at church, she happened to be seated beside a lady whom she had never seen before…

Mind you, their church was not huge, so a new face tended to be noticed.
She took an opportunity to smile and say hello at the beginning of the service, but didn’t have the opportunity to formally introduce herself after the service had ended…

On the way home, she was chatting with my brother in law, Chuck, about the ‘visitor’ and how she didn’t get the chance to actually meet her properly before the woman left…

Here’s where the TRICKY part comes in!

She told him that even though she didn’t get to do things properly that week, she did however; find out the name of the stranger…

I TOLD you she was tricky! She didn’t get her nickname for nothing!

“It’s Janine,” she told Chuck (who doesn’t have a nickname, due to the fact that his name rhymes with several words that could get your mouth washed out with soap!)

Chuck was curious to know how T.V. had accomplished this ‘covert op’ without actually meeting the lady…
“It was stamped on her bible, and when she wasn’t looking, I stole a glance at it”

I told you she was good!

“It’s Janine Lee-Ather”

Chuck was truly impressed… for at least 10 seconds…
or until he realized that there was a good chance that the woman’s bible had been sitting upside down on the pew and that maybe….

Just maybe… it wasn’t the woman’s name that T.V. had recovered.

Usually, names are stamped on the front, bottom, right hand corner…
But if it was flipped over to reveal the back cover instead, what is normally stamped in the same spot on the back…

Is something that at a quick glance may have looked like Janine Lee-Ather, but more likely than not, was...

You guessed it…

Genuine Leather…

I told you before that it’s genetic!!

Now that you've heard a few of my funny family secrets... Give me one of yours!
Just deposit your funniest slip-up in the comments section...
Maybe that will prove to me, that there's a possibility, that it's not just OUR DNA...