Can you get me some Euthanasia tablets?

[OdeToTheNorthWestWind]

Just seen a slightly rattled friend, whose 88 year old mother made the request. After a bit of gentle questioning, she promised to buy her mum some Echinacea tablets to fend off winter bugs, the next time she is in town. 😄

What strange requests have you had?

On finding out I was Catholic, future MIL asked if we’d be having incest at our wedding.

In lots of accents, such as Scottish ones, porn and pawn are pronounced very differently.

on holiday in Greece and the waiter in a restaurant was telling me the special of the day - read it from a blackboard “chicken in cream sauce with herpes” - written as that and said as “herps” by the waiter. I think he meant herbs, but I still had pasta instead.

I’m going to call it that now.

My DP told the optician he had a stigmata - twice!

My boss told me not to be self-defecating in interviews.. always good advice.

Just remembered another one - last winter at school a group message went out on the app requesting that all the children wipe their willies on the way into school (later an apology and amendment was sent out because they had meant for the children to wipe their wellies, not their willies)

Attending parents evening for DD2 many years ago. They’d been learning about digital photography. In her book she’d written, “digital photos are stored on a floppy dick”.

My friend's aunt used to 'lie down with a couple of paramedics' if she had a headache.

I once told a friend that someone I knew had been getting “fucky moan calls”.

I meant “mucky phone calls” but I guess it works either way…

When we were kids, my friend had a Tall Boy. Her much younger brother referred to it as "that Toy Boy in Lisa's room".

When the Beckhams named their daughter Harper my mother proclaimed "it's a bisexual name'. Unisex mother, unisex.

Someone I worked with was lamenting the fact that her elderly father had ‘gone all dimensional’ and was forgetting things.

I remember my mam being very upset because my cousin had asked her about booking a penis for her wedding. I said "I think she means pianist, Mam. I'm pretty sure she gets a penis free of charge". Cue a litany of outraged "Helena"s.

An ex wanted to know what religious tradition “Crystal Delphiniums” were part of.

Friend’s elderly mother telling us she was off to the hairdressers “for a blow job”.

She meant a blow dry. At least, I really hope she did..

This has made me laugh out loud - thank you. I especially love the photos stored on floppy appendages.

Maybe this was a miss on white/European people but I can assure you other POC would have chuckled
I just assumed people of all colours would see the humour/play on words/miss hearing

Not quite the same thing, but a small park near my old work place had a sign which read "Unaccompanied Dogs are not permitted in this park." I never stopped wondering how the Unaccompanied Dogs could read the sign.

My 84 year old Dad sometime gets vertigo but just recently was telling me how bad his viagra makes him feel.

I was a teacher. One of my pupils wrote a book review saying that she'd loved a book because it was 'absorbent'.

When I was pregnant with our first daughter, I booked a 4D scan. My husband took the afternoon off work to come with me and told everyone in the office he was going with his pregnant wife to get a DNA test! (English is not his first language!) He couldn’t understand why they were all so shocked! 🤣

I know a Spanish woman living in the UK (who wears a lots of bright pink) who pronounces fuchsia as fuck sha. It has been raised with her but she still says it.

I once had a pupil who wrote about Joan of Arc in an exam.
"Joan was a kind girl who loved animals. When it rained she built a boat and the animals went in two by two".