things you have misheard....

[binny]

I have a habit of multi tasking and will admit that I dont always pay as much attention to conversations as I should.
I was sitting with some of the neighbour ladies who were in a conversation the other day and one said what I thought was " Want to have a cow?"

I must have looked a little befuddled because my friend laughed and said "beef? We were talking about going together and splitting the cost of a cow. Do you want HALF of a cow? Or maybe a quarter?"


really. must. learn. to. pay. attention

 

[monkeyboy]

I mis-hear a lot..explains the restraining orders

 

[PrincessKsMom]

I said something once that was, sort of, misheard:

A co-worker was going in for surgery, so I mentioned that my mom had surgery and recommended using a pillow to press into her abdomen whenever she coughed. However, having a Jersey accent and always dropping the "g" at the end of words it sounded like: "Don't forget to bring your coffin [coughing] pillow to the hospital with you". Another co-worker was walking by and was absolutely HORRIFIED that I would say something like that to someone facing surgery. Both the woman who was having the surgery and I were when we figured out, after a split second, why our co-worker was so angry with me. Once the co-worker realized what I really said, she was even more horrified that she might be putting bad thoughts in the other woman's head!