You know how sometimes you say one thing and mean another? Or sometimes you say one thing and someone else thinks you mean another? That seems to happen to me a lot.
For instance, let’s look at this conversation I had recently:
Me: Do you like water sports?
B: What do you mean by water sports?
Me (confused): Uh…you know….lakes, swimming, skiing…that kind of stuff? (I am also pretty embarrased at this point because…well, I’m confused.)
B: OH! I don’t know why, but when you said water sports, I thought you were talking about peeing on one another. But yeah, I like swimming and stuff like that.
Me: (laughing and wishing I could fall through the floor due to embarrasment) No! That’s just gross. I meant lake activities.
Now given this conversation you would think I would stop saying water sports, right? Nope. I now try and say "water sports" every chance I get. I want to work it into every single conversation I have. It’s like a sickness.
I think I might just start walking up to complete strangers and ask them how they feel about water sports and would they participate in water sport activities. It’d be like a science experiment. Or something.
So tell me, are you into water sports?
Dude, you’re sick. I can’t believe you’re going to ask complete strangers to pee on you. That’s highly unsanitary.
Um, no, that’s just gross.
Unless I’m like, stung by a jellyfish or something. THEN you can pee on me. But only where I was stung.
LOL so hard I almost peed!
Why would anyone think that when you said watersports??! Too funny!
Come to San Fancisco Heather. That’s what everybody thinks when you say “watersports”.
HA! We’ve enjoyed watersports together, no?
Smith Lake circa 2003?
Topless to boot!