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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DirectionsOnce, very shortly after having moved house, I was trying to direct a friend to my new place.
He was on foot, about half a mile from me. Close to where he was, there is a Co-Op.
Well, actually there are two co-ops, but one is the foodstore type and the other is the department store type. They are directly opposite each other.
Of course I end up using this as a landmark in my directions, telling my mate to "Stand with your back to the co-op and turn right 90 degrees and walk that way"
Of course I was thinking myself of the brightly coloured and *obvious* food outlet, whereas my friend had latched onto the front of the the drab and infinitely less prominent department store. Which as a result, made him turn in completely the wrong direction.
He ended up miles away. The shouting got quite heated at some points, both of us totally convinced that the other was at fault.
When we finally realised where we had gone wrong, we were creased up laughing for ages.
The "half mile journey" took two hours......
(, Tue 11 Oct 2005, 9:37, Reply)
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