Shortly before Charles de Gaulle's retirement, his wife was asked by Harold Macmillan's wife Dorothy what she most looked forward to in the coming years. 'A penis', she declared. Coming to his wife's rescue, the former president remarked: 'My dear, I think the English pronounce it "'appiness ..."'. "Walking in on Mum and Dad" relives many sorry tales of embarrassment, from author Bill Bryson snoring and dribbling in public to actor Patrick Stewart caught watching re-runs of Star Trek. There are tales of sex and seduction, of indecent exposure, of ill-advised emails, of own-goals and of infidelity revealed - by a parrot. Brian King searches for the antidote to embarrassment in science and psychology and by looking at his own experiences, as well as hundreds of mortifying misadventures suffered by others.
- ISBN13 9781840468687
- Publish Date 6 March 2008 (first published 3 May 2007)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 December 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Icon Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 192
- Language English