legitimate conversations in my family:

reks: i couldn’t sleep at all last night for fear of ghosts.  you got me all scared of ghosts before going to sleep.

mhws: you’re the one who told me the place was haunted!

reks: no, i said the last place was haunted.  you got me all worked up about this place, said puppy saw a ghost.

mhws: oh that’s right.  and maybe he was just having a penny-moment.

reks: you told me we had to go find out what was spooking him.

mhws: and you found the settee.

reks: the haunted one.

mhws: they’re probably no ghosts at all.  no ghosties.  no ghosties!

reks: we better hope they’re ghosts.  tons and tons of ‘em.  otherwise rapture done come and gone and left us and we were deemed unworthy.

mhws: oh gawd!