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

She did ! They couldn't not give it to her after all that!

Me to my then partner: “I like the idea of painting clouds on the bedroom ceiling. But do you think that always looks childish?”

Him: “Probably. But I think you should do whatever you want. (Pause). But I thought you hated clowns?”

My ex had his flaws, but I love that he was so laid back he’d have let me paint clowns on the bedroom ceiling 😆

On holidays at a campsite in Italy that was mostly German (Dh and I are Irish) - on the second day of kids going to the mini club we were told we don't need to hang around just be on call so off we dashed to the beach and rented a pedalo. A German couple pedalled past and shouted 'hi are you having a good day?' in German. DH tried to say we are enjoying a morning without our children but shouted gleefully in German 'WE ARE CHILDLESS AND HAPPY'. Still makes me laugh.

Our boys called their penises their 'willy' but DS1 had difficulty saying it so said 'billy'. When we went to a development check up the nurse had a thick rural midland (Irish) accent and when she was chatting to him instead of saying 'have you got a tickly belly, show me your tickly belly!', it came out like 'show meh your tick-le bill-eh'. She turned to say something to me and then we saw him standing there pants around ankles proudly holding his 'billy' to show her.

As a teenager at my friends house her mum gave us a shopping list and whispered to friend “and get some whatsits” so we went shopping and got a multipack of wotsits. When we got back she said “why did you get these?” and friend said “you asked us to get them” turns out it was her code for
sanitary towels 😂we did wonder why she pointed downwards when she said it.

May years agom early 80s, a friend was doing a dinner party and she made a rice mould, the trend then. She came round the next day on tears, it had been inedible, guests were downing gallons of water. We looked through the recipe and at one point it said 'add Tabasco to personal taste' and I asked how much she'd used. 'Oh it needed about 4 tablespoons to look nice and link like the photo.!' We then noticed the footnote, To get the pink colour, use food colouring.

I once made a recipe that the owner of our favourite restaurant in Gibraltar had given out on the radio, he had emphasised 'a full head of garlic'. It was awful, even though we like garlic, when we next saw him we asked about the 'full head of garlic' and he explained that the garlic we got from Morocco was very small, it was when the border was closed, we then told him that friends had brought some nice, fat heads of garlic back on their boat from Spain for us!

God, this reminds me of working at an Indian restaurant in college. An older male customer asked 'Do you know how the tea's made' and I thought he said 'Do you know how to tease me' 😳

I was messaging a guy online. He asked how my week had been and I said 'Not bad, just been battling a horrible cod.'

Didn't get his confusion until I realised I'd left out the L!

😂😂 I definitely would've picked up some wotsits too

😂 ahhh that made me laugh! Bless your DS

arrived on holiday in Egypt - concierge guy shows us up to our room and shows us around. He opens the balcony door gesturing with his arms open to show us the balcony. In that moment I thought he was gesturing for a hug (maybe it’s what they did in Egypt!?!) so I obliged! Embarrassed is not the word 😳 🤣

When I was about 19 I was studying at the local uni and living at home. There was an event on one night in the union bar that I wanted to go to, so I called my Dad at work to ask for a lift there.
I asked to speak to him, got put through to his office and spoke to Dad. His voice sounded a bit strange but I asked him if he was ok, he said yes he was ok and yes he could give me a lift, and that was that. Or so I thought.
Several hours later Dad called me asking if I had, by any chance, called his office to ask for a lift. Turns out the reason he had sounded strange on the phone was that it hadn't been him I'd spoken to at all but his boss, who just happened to have a daughter the same age as me who went to the same uni. He only realised what had happened when he asked her what time she wanted dropping off and she didn't have a clue what he was taking about! So he called Dad and eventually it was all sorted!

Sitting in church next to DD, her boyfriend (A), and several of her friends, waiting for the wedding of another one of their friends. They were all in their very early 20's. A had trained as a tree surgeon.

Idly looking at the hymbooks, which were covered with a sort of wood effect, someone said "I wonder what these are made of?"

To which I piped up "We should ask A, he's the wood expert!"

Long pause, during which it dawned on me that slang had changed since my young day.

We always said he was Bill Stickers brother!

These are making me.laugh- greatly needed at the moment.
Once I was texting s friend who had rece6a very poor haircut. I sent her a txt which was supposed to say, 'I bet you felt like kicking her in the flossie' however predictive txt changed it to licking her in.the flossie🤣

rece6a? flossie? What are you talking about? Has your predictive text failed you again???

My sister took my young nephew to hospital, because she thought he had a huge mouth ulcer. Turned out to be a Smartie with the colour sucked off!

These remind me of the current Compare The Market advert, where the wombat adds a pint of chili powder to the soup, instead of a pinch!😀

NC because outing.

A girl I fancied said to me "Tu as pu" ("you were able to ..." ), followed by something I did not quite hear.

I heard "Tu pues", ("you stink") so I was mortified and did not hear the rest, and I started apologising for my sweaty feet.

She started laughing, and then she ended up getting together with another guy and kissing him all the time, and I was just so sad.

I was 12.

Years old now, but always had a little ? in my head about women using a turkey baster to inseminate themselves. I’d pictured a turkey baster as a long handled shallow spoon, and wondered. And then I went to a Thanksgiving dinner where the host cried out that his baster had broken and a neighbour rant fetch hers…oh!

Sainsburys delivery man was delivering my online order, it was bloody freezing outside & he had shorts on.

Me 'are you not cold wearing shorts in this weather, it's freezing?'
Delivery man 'nah, I wear shorts all year round'
Me 'you're like my husband, he's only just put his pants on'

Meaning he wears shorts most of the year put has just started wearing pants (jeans) because of the cold. I was too embarrassed to explain myself 😅

Another delivery driver one, managed to not embarrass myself until he was getting back in his van & I wanted to say 'bye' or 'see ya', instead I shouted 'seeeeee' at him WTF! Quite often my kids shout that at me as they're leaving the house.

One of our cats is a stray who had been living in the car park at work. I booked her in with the vets for microchip scanning and a check up - we hadn't named her so they just put "Carpark Cat" to be going on with.
Before the appointment "CC" had sort of stuck - so I rang the vets so they could record her official name and the receptionist asked how to spell it. And I said "c.c." she sounded confused - so I clarified, "It's two Cs, umm capital Cs!"

After the appointment her name on the label for the worming tablets and flea drops read as CeeCee! We quite liked it however her Vet Name is now "Cecilia" to avoid any confusion !

Years ago I went to see the GP for a problem with my knee. During the consultation he asked me if I had moved. I thought it he was asking if I’d moved my bowels so just said yes. I did think it was a random question but thought he was about to diagnose some rare disease which connected my bowels to my kneecap 😆. He said “you really should notify us if you move” to which I confusingly replied “what every time?”. I soon dawned on me he was asking if I’d moved address. I quickly backtracked and just told him I was still at the same address. Couldn’t get out there quick enough 😂

@CuriousLadyBird - reminds me of when we had a shop with a bit you lifted-up" to get behind the counter. Someone asked my DMum "how do you get into this shop/business?" & DMum lifted up the counter

While pregnant with my daughter I managed to get threadworms. Embarrassed anyway I Went to the chemist. Explained my predicament to the pharmacist. He asked what stage I was at to which I replied ‘the itchy stage!’ The ground could’ve swallowed me up when he explained that he was asking what stage of pregnancy I was at.

My wee gran was 95 when she passed so not big on technology.

we were watching the news when Sophie rayworth said to press the red button for more information.

”what’s this red button she’s talking about?” asked gran

”oh that’s for people with Sky granny, you don’t have that”

”ah ok because when I tried it the other day the tv just switched off”