What misunderstandings have you allowed someone to labour under because you were too polite to correct them?

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I'll start.

In my lounge is a photo from when the dc were tiny and they met Belle and the Beast at Disneyland.

The dc are all dressed up next to the characters. When my friend saw the picture she started to exclaim at how amazing we looked and especially ME, how stunningly beautiful and different I looked.

But of course it wasn't me, it was a Disney princess actress.

I was going to correct her but she got so into gushing about how well turned out I am in that photo compared to normal I thought I'd spare her embarrassment, so now I hide that photo whenever she comes round

Tasna! That's really made me laugh!

That I'm vegan.

That I have three girls.

(Not the same person).

That I've been on 'University Challenge' (it was 'Mastermind'. I've told him it was Mastermind umpteen times. Bloke in pub, whenever I see him, always tells whatever group of mates he's with that I was on 'UC' and they ask me lots of questions about: seating arrangements; Paxman; how big the studio is; did we have a mascot; how many I got right; did I buzz in and fuck it up? Very tiring.

My late Nan’s hard of hearing best friend always called her Helen- her name was Ellen. Since they met in the 1960s, Nan couldn’t bear to correct her anymore. When my youngest was a baby, I bumped into her and introduced her to Hettie- ten years on the fabulous, now 103 year old friend still calls out “ooh look it’s Helen’s granddaughter Hattie” when we bump into her!

I am a Muslim and dress unmistakably like one. We went on a family day out to a historical folk museum once and an American group approached me and started asking me questions about the history of the place. I thought they were just being friendly so I responded and they tagged along with me, asking lots of stuff. It took me ages to click that they assumed I was a tour guide when I was far too British to correct them even though I made half the answers up.

I overheard my MIL arguing with my husband that I like my coffee with milk and 1 sugar and he was insisting that I like it black with no sugar. She made me one that way once and I was too polite to say that’s not how I drink it and she just carried on making them that way assuming that was what I liked.

My mum was once walking home from work and I'd gone to meet her with our dog when I was younger. We had to walk down a farm track to get home and my mum tripped in a massive pothole and fell over of course the dog then starts messing around rolling around on the ground with her. Then our landlord drove up the track as mum was getting up and said 'you alright? I thought you were playing with the dog' Mum was so embarrassed she said 'yes, I was' and proceeded to get back down on the ground with our dog, with ripped leggings and bleeding knees!
@Butterer that's really funny
@SimonJT which celeb did they think you were?