The other night I was invited out for a night with the 'girls.' I told my husband that I would be home by midnight, 'I promise!' Well, the hours passed and the margaritas went down way too easily. Around 3 a.m., a bit loaded, I headed for home.Just as I got in the door, the cuckoo clock in the hallway started up and cuckooed 3 times.Quickly, realizing my husband would probably wake up, I cuckooed another 9 times.I was really proud of myself for coming up with such a quick-witted solution, in order to escape a possible conflict with him.(Even when totally smashed... 3 cuckoos plus 9 cuckoos totals = 12 cuckoos MIDNIGHT!) The next morning my husband asked me what time I got in, I told him 'MIDNIGHT'... he didn't seem pissed off in the least.Whew, I got away with that one!  Then he said 'We need a new cuckoo clock.'When I asked him why, he said, 'Well, last night our clock cuckooed three times, then said 'oh sh*t.'  Cuckooed 4 more times, cleared its throat, cuckooed another three times, giggled, cuckooed twice more, and then tripped over the coffee table and farted.                                                                                                                                                                             

You know BB that sounds like something my mother would have said to me a few years ago when I lived at home and would stagger in from the pub - and def sounds like the kind of cunning plan I would come up with thinking it was foolproof....! Trouble is, their dogs would always give me away when I'd try and sneak in quietly, then I'd end up giggling!                                                                                                                                                                             

PMSL @ that one - that's deffo something I would do  Nice one Mark                                                                                                                                                                              

Thought it would be apt for you HFG.  Never managed the 'creeping through the house' thing, I normally stomp like a herd of elephants lol   Cassie says 'Hi!'