If someone says I beg your pardon, does your mind automatically follow with... I never promised you...?

The first four answerers have NOT A CLUE what I'm talking about, do they??? LOLOLOLOL

it sure does...when I hear someone say "I beg your pardon"...that song (Rose Garden) is stuck in my head for days! lol

nope - I think oops, what just happened? Am I in your way?

Now that you brought it up, I'm going to have it stuck in my head. Oh well.

a rose garden along with the sunshine theres gotta be a little rain sometime. Lynn Anderson.

...a rose garden...
no but now its stuck in my head.

a rose garden.

Good country song!

a rose garden, along with the sunshine theres gotta be a little rain sometimes

in the word of ALF "Ha!" good one !!! shades of Lynne Anderson, later Martina McBride

As a matter of fact, it does. Ain't that wierd ?

i beg ur pardon i never promised u a rose garden, along with the sunshine theres going 2 be a little rain sometime that what it remind me off

i never promised you a rose garden. luckily it doesn't get stuck in my head.

Not so much...

No, I think it comes from "I beg you to pardon me for bothering you." Otherwise known as "Sorry to bother you, but...", just a bit more dated.

It's still just people being polite.

Oh, no. I know what they mean. People who think that take common colloquialisms waaay too seriously.

No, and beg's and pardon's don't really have a real link to promises, so think about the words and you'll get the real meaning, I've never thought of promises when someone says it, I just think.. you aren't really begging, and you don't beg even though you say you do