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Have You Ever Known a ‘Pain in the Neck’?
Or had one?
According to Google — a “pain in the neck” is an informal idiom that means someone or something is very annoying or bothersome.
Therefore, they are a pain in your neck. I guess that’s better than being a “pain in the ass”.
My sister and I were just talking about this last night. She literally has a pain in her ass, and I literally have a pain in my neck.
Susie fell down and broke her tailbone several years ago and had to have her tailbone removed. No, seriously. They completely removed her tailbone. So now her “not tailbone” hurts all the time.
So, therefore, I always say, “Here comes the pain in the ass.” And she retaliates by saying, “Here comes the pain in the neck.” But I always get the last word by commenting that I would rather be a pain in the neck than a pain in the ass any day.
When I was eighteen years old I drove a 1970 Ford Fairmont that looked just like the one in the picture. The headrests back then were low and didn’t do a very good job of actually blocking your head from being thrown backward.
