"Yeah ...

Have you seen the funny Geico Commercial where the first thing you see is a group of exhausted elderly explorers trudging their way through the snow?  

 

The narrator explains, in a hushed and laudatory voice, that these are intrepid explorers who are finally about to make it to the South Pole when suddenly:

they find that someone else has beat them to it – it's Dora the Explorer! The men walk away in defeat as Dora and Boots do a dance and call out “Yeah ! You did it!”

Every time I see that it reminds me of an incident with my husband Dick. We were living in NY City and had only been married about a month. He was notorious for being late to everything and I was worried because we were meeting a bunch of my work mates and I wanted everything to be perfect. We had reservations at a well known restaurant and everyone was there except Dick. We were still in line because it was a few minutes before our table would be ready and suddenly I saw him rushing to get there on time.  

Without thinking how it would sound I called out to him … “Oh, yeah, you made it. I'm so PROUD of you!” and then turned all shades of red as my friends and some of the people I didn't even know parodied me with comments like “Dickie, you're such a good boy” and “there's hope for you yet” and even “mama will show you how proud she is later !”, etc., etc. Luckily one of Dick's strong points was a great sense of humor and it didn't faze him a bit. He'd even refer to it years later as the one and only time he was ever on time !