 |
| A grocery list - sometimes it's legible, sometimes it isn't |
Have you
ever experienced a situation where something you did or said was misinterpreted?
An item on my grocery list was the target of misinterpretation the other day.
I stopped by
the grocery store on the way home from work, once inside the store I realized
that I didn’t have my shopping list. Using my semi-sharp memory, I grabbed
items that I could recall from the list.
Before
leaving the grocery store I called my teen son at home and asked him to read
the list to me. He rattled off items, “Milk, cereal, apples, Ritz…”
“I don’t
remember Ritz being on the list, you’re just add stuff,” I told him.
“I’m just
telling you what I saw on the list,” he said adamantly.
I grabbed a
few more items, including a box of Ritz crackers. Although I didn’t believe the
crackers were on the list, I got them anyway because I like to snack on them.
After
arriving home, my curiosity got the best of me, I had to check out the grocery
list. The list was still in its spot, written on a magnetic pad posted on the
refrigerator door. The items were – milk, cereal, apples and GRITS not RITZ.
Somebody had
not taken their time to write clearly or to read slowly. Either way I was
without grits. It was no big loss, I simply created a new list. However, next time
I will make a list to remind me to take the list when I leave the house for the
day.
What
experience have you had with something being misinterpreted?
No comments:
Post a Comment