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

I booked a holiday to Wisbech a few years ago, absolutely thought it was on the coast as I thought it was actually spelt wisbeach (what a knob).

I know someone who grew up in an upper middle class family in a country where most middle class people had servants (similar, I suppose, to England 100 years ago) and had never cooked. After emigrating to England, she decided she had better learn, and asked her sister for some recipes. One of these recipes featured rice, and the first instruction was to 'wash the rice'. Her sister came into the kitchen and found her washing the rice in the sink with Fairy Liquid!

A few years ago DH and DD were swimming on a busy beach. Dh spotted a dog swimming nearby who seemed to be dunking under the water. Convinced it was drowning, he swam over to help it but it swam off, he started shouting at some nearby surfers 'help the dog!!'. Eventually the dog swam off and the surfer came over to tell him it was a seal.

A few years ago my pal was showing her DS around the local church. She stopped at the sacred heart picture and asked 'do you know who this man is'. DS replied 'feck it' then seeing his mums confusion said 'no, the other one - Jesus Christ!' 😁

Hahahaha. Poor seal, just looking for a fish and an easy time.

I don’t think I have ever come across anyone, outside of my mum and sister, who has read Doreen Tovey’s books, @sueelleker - that is a real blast from the past - thank you!

I have too; love them!

I nearly wet myself laughing at this. I can just imagine his face when she sucked.😂

This is the best laugh I have had in weeks. Please all keep posting. I am off for another pee now before I wet myself. 😂😂

I have a 11yo and 13yo ds and DD I’m currently pregnant and was going through the ringer a bit with gallstones and the 11yo and 13yo screeee h terribly playing on there headsets! And I do a very loud 3 tap knock on the door to then swing it open and tell them to “shut up”.

One evening I was desperately trying to get some sleep and I could hear not only the “screeching” but I could hear some sort of tune/music coming from 13yo DD room I thought o fuck here we go they are now adding dreadful music and tunes into this awful screeching mix so after a few screams from me to keep it down I got up to do my usual swing the door open with the worst look upon my face ready to go apocalyptic.

I swung open the door to see DD sat on her bed playing her guitar singing LOL I had completely forgot I paid for guitar lessons back in January and she looked at me and said “o mum you didn’t think I was gaming did you?!”

I shouted “ NO I came in here to tell you that you sound fucking brilliant!!! Lol

I've actually visited her, when we were camping near Cheddar. ToWhit; did you know they're available on Kindle?

“Thinks she’s a tractor” 😂😂😂

@pollykitty 🤣🤣🤣that’s hilarious I bet he never forgot you .
@travelingtortoise that dentist story is hilarious I would have wanted the ground to open up

This lady was trying to sell my mum some holiday apartments deals, whereby she can stay in an apartment from that company in many places of the world. Btw this lady was going hard core on my mum to sell these holidays, and my mum couldn't really get away as the lady gave her lunch and coffee and tea hahah.

I was elsewhere and came up to them just to sit down and catch up on what this lady was selling, and she randomly asked me "where would my dream holiday be?", Then I said "Hawaii" to which my mum responded "NO it's not! Your dream holiday is the Isle of Wight!!" Hhahhaa

First trip to NYC in 2016 just me and DH. We were walking down a street taking everything in and a woman in front of us tripped and fell on her bum. Well she shouts out “Oh my I think I just broke my fanny!”. We us being from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 I burst out laughing. as DH was helping the poor woman I was doubled over in howling hysterical pains and then DH had to get me up from the pavement. I was giggling for the rest of the day 😂

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 proper LOL at that!

Same here, so brilliant.

I tried to tell the dentist one to my husband when he got home from work, but I couldn't get half way through without being doubled up with laughter again.

When DSis was at secondary school, she had a French teacher who was originally from France. She was usually kind and polite, so it was a bit of a shock when she started telling some of her pupils that they were toss pots.

When questioned by SLT, she protested that she had no idea this term was rude, as she’d heard her (British) husband saying it to their kids.

It turned out that the word she’d been looking for was “fusspot”.

Wow! And I didn’t know they were on kindle so thank you a @sueelleker!

on holiday in derbys i saw a sign in the bus saying dogs were half fare.
below that it said no unaccompanied dogs.
i marvelled at the idea of some clever collie boarding in matlock, clutching a fiver between his teeth and gruffly asking for a half to buxton.
these country working dogs are a cut above urban mutts.
obviously there had been too many dogs travelling alone on the buses, hence the sign.

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obviously there had been too many dogs travelling alone on the buses, hence the sign.

What I’m misunderstanding in this is how the unaccompanied dogs were expected to read the sign and realise they weren’t welcome.

This really made me laugh 😂

On holiday in Turkey recently, having dinner in a restaurant on a street opposite a shop selling soft furnishings, with a display of rugs and cushions outside. DH, getting settled in his seat and all a bit over excited about being on holiday, nodded towards the window and said, 'Hey, after dinner, should we go and buy some rugs?'. DS, who is 7, misheard and said, in a loud voice, 'Should we go and buy some drugs?' We were chuckling over that all evening.

I was having a check up at the doctors many moons ago. The Irish nurse asked me “Penile sex?” I obviously looked puzzled so she repeated it. All I could say was “Erm…” So she said very slowly “Do. You. Have. Pain. On. Sex? I still cringe when I think of it.