To ask about your silly mistakes?

[Mumsiemummy1]

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On this cold November morning, entertain us with your silly mistakes...I'll start...

Until very recently, I used to think some cars had yellow number plates and some white, I didn't realise they were white at the front and yellow at the back.

I also used to think the name Jim was short for something like jimothy, or jimathon.

Go....

I used to think the expression'a hairs breadth' was actually 'a hare's breath'. I thought hares must have really shallow breathing

Until fairly recently I thought the saying was a leper never changes its spots, not leopard

I thought freddie and Andrew Flintoff were brothers, not the same person

My little DS is called Jimothy. We call him Jim for short

@lloydcole really? Maybe I wasn't wrong on that one!

@mumsie I joke of course

@lloydcole you disappointed and relieved all at the same time 😂

Isn't Jim a nickname for James?

When I was a very small girl (like up to 8ish), I used to bawl if my mum drove down a no exit road - because I thought once you go down there, you never get to leave.

@spottedgingham yes but James is a legitimate name, jimothy isn't.

I thought until very recently that capers were fish

I thought the term was 'does the pope shit in the woods'. Turns out I'd got 'do bears shit in the woods' and 'is the pope catholic' mixed up. I used it for years!

rubums that is an actual jokey term though that people use!

I must have picked up on that then mission! I thought that was the actual term

Until I was early 20-ish I thought that aluminium - how we pronounce it in the UK - and 'a-loo-me-um', as per US pronunciation were two different things

I only realised that it wasn't the children actually doing the singing in Bugsy Malone last year!

Not sure if this counts, but I went on a date to the cinema. At some point wanted the loo so left halfway thru. Then when I got out got (as usual) totally disoriented (no drink involved I'm just an idiot). Found he right screen and was so proud I remembered that we were in D row..

Then proceed to walk straight past D Row (and oblivious to the couple standing up to let me through) and sit somewhere else totally random next to some totally random bloke and his girlfriend who was shooting daggers at me

I sat there for an hour and a half, realised I was sitting on this poor sods coat, to which he replied 'oh it's okay! please don't hit me as you're obviously mental '

It wasn't until the end of the movie that I realised my date was literally sitting right in front of me...

I thought Walford was a real place FOR YEARS.

I lived in London at the time. Awful.