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

@Cordeliathecat Yes sir, I have nipples' 😂

@Lesina Pig throwing competition 😂

I'm crying at these ones, thank you.

@travelingtortoise thank you for this. I’ve had a rubbish day and this has made laugh so much 😂😂

A few years ago I was waiting for a parcel and decided to open the front door a tiny bit to see if anything had been left in the porch, which it hadn't, so I shut it again.

As soon as I closed the door, I heard a loud banging noise, so I opened it and saw a courier standing outside with a WTF look on his face. I opened the door and he said "why did you ignore me?". I had no idea what he was on about. It turned out he had rung the doorbell a few seconds before I'd happened to open the door. I'd only looked at the floor of the porch so hadn't noticed anyone standing outside. I'm pretty sure he didn't believe me and thought I was just being rude.

We have a house in Portugal and our elderly Portuguese neighbours are very sweet always keen to chat. We are learning Portuguese and they don't speak English but they are always so helpful and patient with us so we have half an idea about what they are talking about albeit with very pigeon Portuguese, pictures and gestures.

One evening the husband came charging round babbling in Portuguese and we had no idea what he was talking about. He kept pulling up his hair pointing to the back of our house and saying "perdido" so we worked out something was lost. I thought he then said "chapeu" so I assumed he had lost his hat over the balcony at the back of our house( our balconies join) I went to look for it. No hat.

At this point I looked up and saw his wife leaning over the balcony and saying "miaow miaow" so then I thought perhaps he had meant "gato" and that they had lost a cat. So there I am out the back of the house miaowing like a loon looking under cars and bushes. No cat. ( quite surprising as there are usually lots of stray cats about in the village!)

They were both getting quite exasperated that we didn't understand them so my DD went into their house armed with Google translate on her phone and together managed to work our that they had lost their signal on theTV and could we help them!

So I was right something had been lost ( just not a hat or a cat!) DH and I fervently improved our Portuguese so the next time we were out there we were able to have a slightly more sane conversation!

Years ago on an airboat ride in the Florida Everglades, we got to the end and the driver man said has anyone any questions? This other couple on the boat went “what’s your favourite thing about this job?” He goes in his heavy southern USA drawl “well when y’all have left I sometimes fire the boat up, come out here, sun going down and it’s just me the gators and a crate of miller lite” I turned to husband and far too loudly went “why’s he come out here with yoghurt?

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Omg what the the colleagues with the cocaine say when you explained you wanted a lime?? 😂

When I was around 18 me and my now ex DH (BF at the time) were telling my dad who was in his sixties that we were going to the sex shop to buy a movie. We meant the CEX shop but it's pronounced sex and he had never heard of it. My BF then said to him 'oh it's not one of those sex shops it's a pawn shop' 😅 I spent ages trying to explain to my dad that it's an entertainment shoo where people buy or sell movies - I'm not sure he believed me!

I have two occasions that might be of interest.

My first was when I was 17 and applied for a job to become a recruitment agent. Went to the interview and then realised about 10 minutes in that I was actually interviewing to go onto their books for other jobs rather than to work for the agency itself 🤣

Another was 4 years ago in Turkey. Went to a Turkish bath with a friend, 2 blokes doing the treatment. One looked like a god, the other like Stavros Flatley. Of course I had Stavros Flatley. At the end of the treatment he asked me to lift my arms and put a towel round me. Only thing is I thought he was trying to give me a hug so went in for a full bear hug accompanied with a loud 'Awwwww' for the occupants of the nearby sauna to see in full view. He was mortified and I've not been back to Turkey since.

@KnottyKnitting what had they lost?

The dental patient sucking on the dentist's finger has made me cry with laughter. Fab. Thank you for this thread!

I was watching the news one night. It was talking about a bloke who reached the North Pole. Cue pic of said bloke standing in rhe snow grinning holding onto a waist high thin pole lodged in the snow with one hand and the other up in the air in a celebratory punching the air manner.

I watched it and said to my husband, oh I didn’t realise there was an actual pole at the North Pole. My husband responds, what, that’s his friggen ski pole 😂😂😂

We'll, this thread has properly cheered me up!

Many years ago we used to have a Butchers shop near us that sold scraps of meat all minced up for customers to cook for their pets, you would go in the shop and ask for a pound of Pet Mince.
I asked my nephew, who was visiting if he would pop up the road to the shops and get me a pound of Pet Mince, he came home with a very large bag full of Mint Imperials!!

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As I Croatian, I just love this story!

years ago went on holiday with my sister and her family, so 4 adults and five children under 10. the plane was delayed so we reached the destination late in fact it was about midnight , I pressed the intercom of the office we were supposed to pick the keys up to our villa and in muddled english a message come through to pick up from garage next door. We went into garage and asked the guy behind the counter for keys to villa he handed me an envelope with address on and keys inside. When we got to villa I did think it did not look the same as on the website but heyho it was dark lol, we went in, kids and my sisters husband jumped in pool fully clothed and my sister and I went in kitchen and opened the wine and made some toast thinking must be a welcome pack left for us, then there was a knock at the door I opened it and a couple were stood there , we were in their villa , swimming in their pool eating their food and suitcases all open all over the place , wet floor.
Turned out the guy in the garage had given us the wrong envelope , I still cry with laughter when I think of the look on their faces

The television signal! 😂

This was very many years ago (1980s). My father worked in the insurance industry. One day he came home and my mother said to him “John called. He is wondering what to do after A levels and he was wondering if you could have a chat with him about your job.” John (not real name but it was a similarly common name) was the son of a friend of my parents. John was also the name of the son (same age) of their next door neighbour.

DF was a man of few words and just got up and went next door while DM was cooking dinner. He rang the bell and when John next door answered (his parents were out and he was at home studying) DF told him he had come to have a chat with him about the insurance industry. John proceeded to listen to my DF tell him all about insurance and his job and how he got to be doing what he was doing. My DF is really a very unassuming man, so this would have been a very low key conversation, not at all bossy or lecturing in tone (which is maybe why John put up with it), but it still makes us laugh out loud to consider what John must have been thinking. DF was gone nearly an hour. John made him a cup of tea and was very polite. DF says he seemed quite interested!

My DF came home (still none the wiser) and only then found out he had got the wrong John; when he told DM where he had been.

DF went back next door the next day and explained to John’s parents. The neighbours laughed about it, but the funniest thing is that John had not even mentioned it to them. Neighbour John went to study chemistry. Other John went into the police.

I leant my sister a knitted cardigan to wear to a family event. I had bought it in a shop. It wasn't hand made.
A woman at the event admired it and my sister told her it's Gabsdots. She raved about it and then she came over to me and raved about my cardigan to me too.
it turned out she thought I had knitted the cardigan. We never had the heart to tell her otherwise.

When I first started getting fit, I booked a PT session. I had zero knowledge. He handed me two resistance bands and said to put them around my ankles, then he answered a call so was distracted.

I took them and put one on my left ankle and one on my right. Of course they were so loose they just dropped to the floor, so there I was, standing with a foot in each band on the floor. I thought wtf?

10 seconds later, the PT ended his call and turned around to see me.

Bless him, he didn't even smirk, he just said no no no, both bands around both ankles...

I couldn't stop laughing, which allowed him to laugh, then neither of us could stop. Belly laughing, tears, proper laughing together. It took weeks before he introduced resistance bands again.

My sister was camping on a west coast. She said that the "dews were terrible there" I waas shocked as I thought she said "Jews" !!!

Dh’s work asked me what vouchers to get for his significant Birthday collection and I said he likes the cex shop in town (pronounced sex) Their faces!

Around Christmas time me and my friend went to a Christmas event and we met 'Santa' who we kept referring to as 'the main man' because obviously it was Christmas time.

A few days after Christmas I'd finished my care work shift and the next carer turned up and he asked me "So... How was the main man?" And I genuinely thought he meant Santa. Luckily I had enough sense to assume that couldn't be the case so I asked him to clarify and he said "'Client'. How was 'client'?" which made far more sense.

So glad I didn't start talking about how I'd asked 'Santa' for money for a house deposit and he'd said no!

Years ago I was suffering from anxiety and the GP organised some therapy for me with a counsellor called David. He was very nice and very helpful and the therapy was useful.

At a similar time I met a bloke online and we clicked instantly. He rather ridiculously proposed after a very short space of time and even more ridiculously I said yes.

At a follow up the GP asked me how I was getting on with David and I told him I was madly in love and we were getting married. He didn't seem very happy for me which was a real shame as I was blissful.

Later on that day I realised the GP was asking about my counselling, and just raved about my new fiancé, David. Two completely different blokes with same name!

I had to ring the GP to explain so counsellor David didn't get struck off for getting jiggy with his patients. His relief was huge 🤣

Still married to the second David 💕