Misunderstandings

sullivlo

I've had plenty of misunderstandings in my time - socially (was he going for the shift?), academically (mitosis / meiosis) and in employment situations (working 9-5 yet I'm still here at 6).

However there is one major misunderstanding that sticks in my mind. I was in 4th class in primary school and there was a competition within the school (& perhaps further afield) to illustrate a proverb ("A rolling stone gathers no moss" "Ignorance is bliss" etc).

I decided to take on the challenge of drawing "There is strength in numbers".

To my immortal shame I drew a picture of a load of numbers working out in the gym with weights.

The winner was one of my friends, who also drew "There is strength in numbers" but she drew lots of different people holding up the globe.

Perhaps I didn't quite grasp the concept of proverbs.

So AH I ask of thee: What was your biggest (or most embarrassing) misunderstanding to date?

Lapin

I don't comprehend.

Jack Skellington

I think your picture was better than hers

holystungun9

A stitch in time gathers no moss.

Hitchens

sullivlo wrote: »

So AH I ask of thee: What was your biggest (or most embarrassing) misunderstanding to date?

I was in a pub in Soho one time and I hooked up with a girl called Lola

ruthloss

A Spanish Doctor asked me "English"?, I huffily said "No!, I'm Irish".,

He replied "I simply enquired if you spoke English", talk about 'pulling your horns' in.:o

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

My friends girlfriend was pregnant and asked me if I wanted to feel the baby.

On reflection I think she meant on the outside.

Jake Rugby Walrus666

Your one reminds me of one of the Things cartoons "honey things just aren't working out etween us" . Featuring some of the things lounging around, exercise equipment at their feet, sitting between a man and a woman.

Sunnyisland

Till death do us part.



I have gone through two divorces...

Canard

In third year in English we were doing essays, and one of them was "my pet hates". A guy in my class wrote all about the things his dog didn't like, totally oblivious to his genius error. :P

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

Our teacher came into the room for our first day of first year and the first thing he said before he even sat down was, have any of you heard of someone named Patrick Kavanagh, I put my hand up after he asked a further few times and said he's in the other class sir, he said that he's talking about the poet and not about a boy in another class, everyone laughed hysterically, I went a deep dark shade of crimson for the next half hour as everyone else moved on with the class...

..and their lives.

HansHolzel

Primary teacher asks class how does one address a bishop. After various things are shouted up ("Father?" "Sir?" "Bishop?" "Your Holiness?") the alpha female rises slowly and imperiously at her desk in the middle row...

"Your MAJESTY!"

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

everyone laughed hysterically...