MisunderstoodMy other half rang a courier today to get a disc sent over to a client. The courier company asked what it was she was sending. "A computer disc", she said.
Half an hour later, 3 blokes in a van turned up. They looked a little disappointed to be handed a floppy disc: they were all prepared to shift a computer desk across London.
Have you been utterly misunderstood recently?
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chthonic, Thu 6 Oct 2005, 23:06)
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Mother swearing problemFor some reason from when I was about 13 to about 16 my mother got into the habit of calling people silly 'Twats'. At the petrol station, 'you silly twat'; to my elderly uncle'you silly twat'. You get the idea.
Thing was the way she said it was if there was nothing wrong, and I thought it was hilarious as I got the impression that she'd didnt understand what it really meant.
I was right.
One day after spending the day shopping, and her coming out with it several times I asked her did she actually know what it twat means?
She thought it was the same as calling someone a twit. When I pointed out that it actually refers to a ladys unmentionables she took on a rather pained expression and was subdubed for the rest of the day.
Instead of just keeping quiet about it though, the next time she met people she'd been calling twats for the past couple of years she proceeded to apologise to them for calling them twats, when she actually ment twits and promised not to call them twats again. This was just as shocking as she'd collar people when they were with their kids, family ETC.
Misunderstood? Shes a bloody menace.
(, Fri 7 Oct 2005, 11:28, Reply)
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