I’m not kidding but way back when I first started doing my own grocery shopping and they asked “Paper or plastic?” I thought they meant would I pay with cash or credit card.
I’d always say paper,give them the money then ask them for a plastic bag after they’d already started to put my groceries in a paper bag. I don’t remember but I’m sure they must have looked at me funny.
This went on for probably close to a year!
This thread can be for anything like this. Even song lyrics you misunderstood.
It might have been more than a year this went on.
When I was quite young, maybe 4 years old, my mom drove an old car which wasn’t reliable. Sometimes it wouldn’t start when we were out at the laundromat, or it would stall on the road which was distressing to a small kid who thought we’d never get home.
I was a really picky eater back then, too. One day my mom made lunch for me but she didn’t want to put up with my usual finicky small bite or two, so she said, “If you don’t finish your sandwich, the car won’t start.”
Of course I ate every bite, and of course the car started! She must have pulled the same trick on me repeatedly because for years after, I always made the correlation between me finishing all my food, and the car starting without a problem.
That’s a cute story and a cute pic.
When I was about 10 or so our family had an Oldsmobile.
I asked my dad why it was called an Oldsmobile as I thought it an odd name. My dad told me it was named after the guy who started the company and I thought "Wow…how neat that a guy called Oldsmobile decided to make automobiles!
I found out later the guy’s name was Ransom Olds.
When I was like 4 or 5, I wasn’t speaking very much. Had to see a speech therapist and all that.
The reason was that I thought your “voicebox” had a limited amount of words, and I didn’t want to run out as a kid. Makes for a pretty good laugh now.
As a kid the only Music videos I seen came from the Windows of Music stores. So when I first seen the image of Boy George I thought it was a girl doing a voice over for a real band with an ironic Name. Did not find out the truth for about a year when I seen this same chick being interviewed on the news.
When I was single digit age, maybe 6 or 7 I asked what the red things in green olives were. My uncle said “chicken tongues”. I didn’t start eating green olives with pimentos until well into my teens.
On a related note-- currently, my kids think the red things in stuffed green olives are chicken tongues. Muuaahhaaaa
On one of my birthdays, about age 12, a buddy gave a coupon to see a movie for free at a movie theater in Winnipeg called the Towne Cinema 8.
I thought it was only good to see a movie in theater number 8… so every week till the coupon expired I would check the paper to see what was playing in theater 8. I was hoping for Return of the Jedi so I could go see it a seventh time or whatever…but it would always be shit like Megaforce or Jaws 3.
Crossed into the states, was at a pizza parlour buying a slice. Lady asked me if I was “all cashed out” and I hadn’t the slightest idea what she meant at the time.
I now think it means “Are you ready to pay?”
I really have no way of explaining why, but until my teacher corrected me front of the whole class my 8th grade year, I thought approximately meant ‘exactly’.
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I really have no way of explaining why, but until my teacher corrected me front of the whole class my 8th grade year, I thought approximately meant ‘exactly’. [/quote]
I can see how you did…it’s a longish word, easily misspelled by some, and it has that X in it. It sounds like it would be a word that is about precision.
When I was a kid I thought everything in the olden days was black and white lol, based of course from the old movies that were shown on tele (remember Tarzan with Johnny Weissmuller or Laurel & Hardy…). I used to ask my mam when did colour ‘start’ or how did she manage to live in a world that was black and white? lol
My first wife
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LOL
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ditto
When I was six years old, if something cost 199.50 (pronounced “199 and 50” in Swedish) I thought you were supposed to add it up so it really cost 249.
As a kid I always wondered what “ends meat” was and why it was always made by people that didn’t have much money.
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Dang! You two married the same woman?
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Dang! You two married the same woman?
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Its a long story
When I was a little kid, someone described to me what a “Dip Cone” was at Kennywood park (a popular place around here): an ice cream cone dipped in chocolate with sprinkles and a cherry on top (coolstorybro.jpg).
For some reason, I thought that it was a ride that you got eaten and died on. Seriously.