No Sale

"No dear, I don't care what fantasies you harbour, you are not buying her. Yes I know, she has beautiful long yellow hair, a chest to die for and that dinky little belly button, but we have no room in the Dower House for a mermaid. Please put her back on her rock and come to help me choose buttons."

And he did, and the buttons purchased before we made our escape with only a strange siren like call echoing behind us and a faint whiff of the sea in the air.