To have laughed

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AIBU to have laughed at this and now be telling you?

I've spent the morning with my sister and while I was there she had to call and chase something up, they asked her for her order number and she read it out to them starting with S for Sea. That made me laugh so I walked out of the room so I didn't distract her, she gave me a dirty look. I walked back in after composing myself to hear her arguing about the order number being wrong, apparently it was too many digits. So the man on the other end of the phone read it back to her "S4C...." which started me off again looks like it wasn't just me that heard it that way! The S was the only letter in it as well so he couldn't have realised from her saying F for frog or whatever

Anyway, she is in a huff with me and the useless member of staff who works for that company, WIBU for telling her to lighten up when she was moaning about it?

Does anyone else have any S for Sea type mistakes they have made or heard someone else make? I could do with some more laughing

I'm not DrFoxtrot because I like dancing

My job involves taking registrations a lot. I think the worst was S for sexy!!
Zero for Z is a nightmare as well!
I do laugh at some peoples dreadful attempts at phonetics, but mostly it's frustrating. The phonetic alphabet was chosen so nothing rhymes/sounds similar so the random choices can lead to much more confusion!

This is outing as anybody I know in RL knows this story. Out of hours home visit for a patient called Yennis - I questioned the driver who had taken the call and he said it was Dennis with a Y. I said surely it's Denys .

I've also had dates with the fondly nicknamed Yartin (Martyn).

My colleague was trying to recite the phonetic alphabet and got stuck at S. To give her a clue we said think of a car, 'oh yes' she said 'S for Escort'

Someone once gave me a phone number which was "nothing 7 7 nothing 2..."

Whenever I give my Bradford postcode I have to resist the temptation to quote Pontius Pilate from Life of Bwian: "Biggus Dickus"....
Sometimes I fail.

Stiifsink - I can sort of understand that - sometimes the way people say "zero" can sound quite similar to "seven" - I've been caught out both ways by that before (hearing and saying, I mean). But I tend to use nought rather than nothing!

We used to live at number 3 Green St*, my ex registered us at the dentist and do the first time I went they couldn't find us on their system. It took ages before they found us under 3 Free Green St.
Clearly exs cockney 'one, two, free' is still alive and well after 10 years living in Wales!

I have an old friend whose surname is McInerney.
He called one night for a taxi for McInerney, the dispatcher asked 'Mac and Ernie who?'

These are all brilliant I'm actually going to go back and read them all again

One sister is enjoying the ones I've read out, the other is still annoyed about the whole thing! I am just loving reading them all, and amazed that it made the MN roundup

Any more? I'm ill and feeling sorry for myself, could do with cheering up