What's the funniest misunderstanding you've had?

[CuriousLadyBird]

Do you have a funny story about a misunderstanding where it be you've misunderstood something or another person has misunderstood you?

I'm just starting this thread because I thought about something that happened last week and giggled to myself.

I'm currently under the community mental health team as my mental health is not where I want it to be but next year I've been accepted on to a mental health nursing course and can start If my mental health is stable enough (just a bit of background).

So I had a home visit off someone from the CMHT and we were chatting and discussing my future etc and they asked what my goal was and I said "I think my long term goal is to be sitting where you are" and I meant like becoming qualified as a mental health nurse and helping people but this person must not have understood what I meant and said "Well you live here so you can sit here anytime you want".

I was a bit like what? But didn't say anything and carried on with the conversation so I don't know, I think maybe this person thinks my long term goal is to sit on the other side of the sofa (and I appreciate people with other mental health conditions may have issues sitting in certain places so maybe that's where we've got mixed up) but thinking back to it has really made me giggle.

Next time they come I might sit on that side of the sofa and they'll think I've reached my long term goal

Years ago attended a Catholic wedding with my ex. I have zero clue about different religions and what happens at different types of wedding. All very expected until at some point through the ceremony everyone starts shaking hands with one another around them. I have terrible hearing and I thought the man next to me said 'pleased to meet you' so I said that to all the guests around me. Later on the way home I asked my ex why they all said that to one another. He couldn't stop laughing saying it was "peace be with you". Whoops.

I was in Tesco at 7am at the self serve checkouts when I heard a Tesco employee telling a young man that he couldn't buy Aptamil between the hours of 11pm-8am. I was shocked and asked the employee why not, she looked at me in disgust and said, 'because it's the rules'. I told her I had 5 kids, all bottle fed and have never heard that before and that it's a ridiculous rule and I left. It was only as I was getting into my car that I realised she had said alcohol. 😳

😂😂 as someone who had to sit through catholic mass every week that has made me LOL

@Jeagwt ha ha!! 🤣

When I was about 13 we went to visit my uncle in LA. My uncle had neighbours with a daughter the same age as me so my older brother and I were packed off one afternoon to go and play with Margot.

Ao we had a nice couple of hours in Margot’s room, chatting about the differences in schools etc and Margot showing us some of her treasured possessions.

Margot’s dad and my uncle come home and we go out to the sun room to say goodbye and Margot’s dad said “did you have a nice time?” And my brother replied “yeah it was great, Margot showed us her collection of rubbers!”

His face was a picture until my uncle explained!

Years ago when dsis was a toddler. Our cat had a habit of scratching the carpet by the front door. Arriving home one time with dsis my mum was unable to open the front door because the cat had pulled the carpet up so it was jamming the door.

While firmly pushing door back and forth trying to unjam it my mum was muttering about "that bloody cat" when dsis started crying "poor kitty, poor poor kitty".

She thought the cat was stuck under the door!

I was working in a bar in Edinburgh as a student and someone came in and said in a Scottish accent, "I'll have a pint a apple juice, please."

I replied in in my RP, "Oh, we don't serve apple juice in pints."

The chap said again, "No, I want a pint a apple juice please."

And again I said, "I'm sorry. We don't serve apple juice in pints."

And again. 4 freaking times he asked me and 4 freaking times I replied the same way. The bar staff around me were in the floor in hysterics.

Ok @BlastedPimples you're going to have to spell that out for me (Irish so missing something obvious I'm sure!)

A pineapple juice

I went to a cafe and bought an Eccles cake and a brew and went to the toilet leaving my coat on the back of my chair. I came back to find my Eccles cake gone and a woman wearing my coat sat at my table eating a Kit Kat with an obvious plate with pastry crumbs. I was insensed and sat down opposite her taking one finger of her Kit Kat and sat eating it. She had put my coat back on the chair so I picked it up, put it on and walked triumphantly out of the shop.
When the realised the coqt was bigger than mine I ran back in only ro realise there were two doors to the cafe with a counter in the middle, there were two entrances to the toilet. If I'd turned right instead of left I would have seen my coat, cup of tea and Eccles cake sat in the other side of the cafe exactly where I'd left it.
I apologised and she laughed we are still friends now. I still think I'm an idiot.

Ah yet! 😂

Got it now!!!

Was talking to a friend about another Italian couple we know. This got conflated with Serena Williams being a 7th Day Adventist (I think) and her husband being also the same religion.

I said I didn’t think there would have been many 7th Adventists in Italy, and it was surprising that there were 2 families of them.

I have similar dentist story. He removed the safety goggles from my face, but also my normal glasses. I assumed he was taking them to wipe them or something. It wasn’t until he said I was free to go that I squeaked “can I have my glasses back, please? I can’t see to get home without them”.

LOL haha. This post and story made my day. Thank you :-)

My addition - I was working as a TA in a school back in the day and the teacher asked me if I minded pinning up a piece of paper onto the noticeboard. She mentioned that the drawing pins were on her desk SO I trotted over to her desk, picked up a lone drawing pin sitting there and headed over to the pin board on a mission. On approach, I thought this looks a bit of a funny shaped pin but hey. I then realised that what I'd picked up was her loose ear ring, rather than a drawing pin and I'd almost wedged her ear ring into the wall instead!

Rural Japan trying to get a stamp to send a postcard home. Got the word stamp mixed up with the word ticket.

Go to convenience store next to stations. Ask if they sell stamps (but was actually asking for tickets) - 'no try the station' they say. Strange but their is a little kiosk in there so I ask there. No, try the ticket office - really strange this but the ticket office seller was 2 meters away and had heard this so I just ask him. He asks 'where to' and I say 'England'. He looks at me like I am taking the piss and points to the travel agency over the road. That's when I checked the vocabulary.

😂😂 this is brilliant!

A friend had just spent an afternoon with his god-daughter who he hadn't seen for some years. I was shocked when he said in a very pleased way "She's grown up to be such a racist young woman".

Turns out she was gracious rather than racist.

Omg this is the best 😂😂😂

My first job i was working in an office and had to answer the phones.

A customer called and asked to speak to 'Make'

I was very confused and explained that we didnt have a Make who worked here.

He kept insisting that he needed to speak to Make and i was getting very flustered

It wasnt until several rounds of this later that i realised the guy was Scottish...and he wanted to speak to Mike (my boss)....oops...

Friend asked for a ham and cheese 'punani' instead of a panini.

These are amazing ones. Another Scottish one here. Asking colleagues what they wanted to drink, one coffee and my manager asks for a brew. I return with a coffee and a cup of tea. Trying to politely find out what the fuck he's on about I ask, what type of brew? An iron brew, he says, still laughing. I really didn't want to ask more so I go back and inspect the tea bag packaging to see if any contain iron! Finally in desperation I open the fridge to find all the Bru. Never did live it down.

We were driving down through Georgia, USA, using the back roads rather than Interstates, we stopped for fuel and OH went into the shop to pay. 8 years old daughter got out of the car and followed him, she stood at the door and called to him across a lot of people, Daddy ask if they sell rubbers, you wore mine out last night! He explained quickly, just ahead of a lynch mob.

Oh for an edit button... Managed to delete the part of my story where everyone laughs at me and my manager asks me again for a brew!

This has made me cry with laugher. DH keeps asking me what is wrong 😂

When we lived in a Med country one of the cleaners at OH's school arranged for her sister to clean for us. As we were out when she worked all communication went through the sister at the school, if she needed some more bathroom cleaning stuff it would be 'Mihermana needs some more bathroom cleaner'. It was much later that we realised that Mihermana wasn't her name, it was mi hermana, my sister. Apparently her actual name was, according to OH's colleague, too hard for we Britons to pronounce, she told me and she wasn't wrong!