Painters and panthers...

The owner of our house is a wonderful landlord; he contacts us every spring to ask whether we need any repairs or renovations to the house. This year, we decided to do some repainting - in the lounge and staircase, as well as in the bedrooms. Yesterday, in my mentoring group of seven LDC ladies. I mentioned that we had a painter in our house this week... and I was surprised to see a German lady in the group looking at me with a puzzled expression. She thought I'd said that we have a panther in our house this week. Before I had a chance to explain that I was talking about a painter and not a panther, others in the group jumped in to tell her she was almost right, and that I actually have three panthers in my house - very small ones, of course!