Evening Conversation

Me: "Okay. If you can't speak, you're mute. If you can't hear, you're deaf. If you can't see, you're blind. What are you if you can't smell?"

Darren: "Hmmm?"

Me: "Or taste? What if you can't taste?"

Darren: "You're dumb."

Me: "What?"

Darren: "If you can't speak, you're dumb."

Me: "If you can't speak, you're mute."

This isn't necessarily an excuse but we had just finished playing a wicked game of tennis and it is likely we were both suffering from dehydration, hence this conversation. Once home, I did a little research and discovered that "mute" and "dumb" are offensive terms when used to refer to persons incapable of speech. My apologies.