He Started Fading ....

Paddy (for it was he) and Mary met on a blind date.  They discovered they lived in nearby suburbs and Paddy was over the moon about this.   He immediately started asking her out.

Within a couple of weeks, Paddy had taken Mary to dance clubs, restaurants, concerts, movies and museums. And he  became convinced that Mary was indeed his soul mate and the love of his life. Every date seemed better than the last..

On the one-month anniversary of their first meeting, Paddy took Mary to a fine restaurant. Over cocktails he said "I guess you can tell I'm very much in love with you. But there is something I need to tell you before I ask a Very Important Question.  I am a total golf nut. I play golf, I read about golf, I watch golf on TV. In short, I eat, sleep, and breathe golf. If that's going to be a problem for us, we better talk about it now.”

Mary paused before taking a deep breath and said “Paddy, that certainly won't be a problem. I love you as you are and I love golf too so we have something we can really share.  But, since we're being totally honest with each other, you need to know that for quite some time I've been a hooker  ** ."

And Paddy lapsed into a Long and Thoughtful Silence.  Then he took a sip of his wine and came alive again

“I think we can fix that, it’s probably because you're not keeping your wrists straight when you hit the ball.”

 ( ** not as serious as  if she had been an ex Munster player – Ed)

(Thanks to D Jerrard!)