It happens to me a lot – my wife says something, typically utter nonsense with a few sounds that resembles words – or better yet, a sentence with a lot of normal day-to-day words, that when put together makes absolutely no sense.
And then, in response to my “what was that?” she repeats something that sounds almost the same, but makes sense.
I’ll insist that she mumbles, her version is of course that I never pay attention to anything she says…
Ooooh I do that too! I love the “What I just heard was…” game! It always results in a lot of “You heard WHAT?? HOW??” And then I just smile and politely ask, so, what were you saying?
The sad part to that game is when I intentionally switch to the right hand side so I can hear whats going on and am greeted with “Why..did you move…what are you doing…”
raisin
i should think my regular friends would know what side of me they are SUpposed to stay on. but then again (;
ThatOddGuyOverThere
Try having degraded or just bloody weird hearing in both ears and a five-year-old who won’t face you to speak. I don’t get the chance to misunderstand her; she sounds like a radio that’s just missed the tuning for a station.
6 thoughts on “#497 Misheard”
Mimosen
It happens to me a lot – my wife says something, typically utter nonsense with a few sounds that resembles words – or better yet, a sentence with a lot of normal day-to-day words, that when put together makes absolutely no sense.
And then, in response to my “what was that?” she repeats something that sounds almost the same, but makes sense.
I’ll insist that she mumbles, her version is of course that I never pay attention to anything she says…
Katerly
My excuse is that I’m deaf in my left ear. My misinterpretations are the stuff of legend!
raisin
ha im deaf in the left ear too. only I know that I have misheard, but then I repeat back utter nonsense that I “might have heard”.
Katerly
Ooooh I do that too! I love the “What I just heard was…” game! It always results in a lot of “You heard WHAT?? HOW??” And then I just smile and politely ask, so, what were you saying?
The sad part to that game is when I intentionally switch to the right hand side so I can hear whats going on and am greeted with “Why..did you move…what are you doing…”
raisin
i should think my regular friends would know what side of me they are SUpposed to stay on. but then again (;
ThatOddGuyOverThere
Try having degraded or just bloody weird hearing in both ears and a five-year-old who won’t face you to speak. I don’t get the chance to misunderstand her; she sounds like a radio that’s just missed the tuning for a station.
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