Funny things that we THINK we hear...

[madison]

hi- i guess we've all had our share of mishears. this past christmas i had a good one:( my husband works in the medical field)we were at a restaurant and i asked him what he wanted for christmas. he told me he could use some new scrubcaps. well i thought he said hubcaps! i asked him how was i supposed to pick them out? he said he thought i would be great at that. our conversation went on for a bit like a "whose on first" session until i asked him why he even needed them anyway when his car was brand new? lol...yeah, we do this kind of thing alot! i love reading about everyone elses oops too though.
i also hear phantom noises and when my good ear is in the pillow, i hear running water all the time. that took me awhile to get used to-i kept thinking we were having a flood from a pipe or something!

[Kaybo]

that made me laugh, Madison!  Thanks for sharing!

K   

[leapyrtwins]

I can just imagine this conversation.  Scrub caps, hub caps - sounds like the same thing to me 

Jan

[Nickittynic]

I was recently answering a patient's call bell at work and she asked for "A cup of oysters with ice."

I was thinking "What kind of place does she think this is!  We don't have any oysters." When I asked her to repeat herself, and gave myself a minute to comprehend it, I figured out it was "A cup of orange juice with ice", which made a lot more sense!

[briansmome]

I am always having someone yell at me across a parking lot or some such, then having to turn in circles looking for them. Then they'll try and direct me - turn this way, on your right, no, the other right... - hilarious. And once I hung up the phone on my husband because he wouldn't talk to me even though I said hello like five times. Yeah, had the phone to the wrong ear.
I have discovered an awesome side to theis one-sided deafness, though. I have a young son who was just past his frst birthday when I had surgery and has always (still to this day) been a terrible sleeper. I was constantly up and down with him during his first year. Now, if my goos ear is turned into thw pillow, then 9 times out of 10, I don't hear him. Hubby has to get him. Haha, your turn now, honey!!!

[james e]

I have always used my left ear to listen to the phone. My right ear is deaf from the surgery. I was lying on the couch one night on my left side and the phone rang. Just because of the position I was in, I put the phone up to my right ear, not  even remembering I was deaf. I said hello several times and nobody answered...said hello again, no answer, and as I was hanging up the phone, I told my wife there was no one on the phone. The phone rang again right away, and it was my neighbor, who I had just hung up on...and I remembered I am SSD. There is some small humor in all of this!

[Debbi]

Yep, I've been known to hang up the phone when I think that no one is on the other end - only to realize that I've got the phone held up to my deaf ear.  And, I have perfected the "Swhwanomma Spin" - when someone calls out my name, followed by "over here."  Duh.

Pretty funny stuff.

Debbi

[epodjn]

My latest hearing incident was while cleaning out my mother-in-laws house. We took a break for lunch and my sister-in-law handed me a plate of food and asked me if I would like a fly swatter with that. I said no, wondering the whole time why I would want that. Then as she handed my husband a plate I heard her again, this time I heard it correctly. Would you some ICE WATER with that. I burst out laughing and then had to explain to everyone else what was so funny.

[cin605]

I love the stories here.....i needed a good smile.Thanks!

[Sefra22]

The other night I went into a 7-11 to get some chewing gum for my husband. As I walk in the door, I said to the clerk, "How ya doin?"

I heard her reply, "Do you know you're exposing yourself?"
I immediately wonder if my shirt had popped open, or if my fly was unzipped. I checked both, and was fine, so I said to her "I'm sorry, I didn't hear what you said", she then repeated what she had originally said which was "I'm doing fine... and yourself"?


Lisa

[arkansasfarmgirl]

A couple of nights ago, in the middle of the night while everyone was sleeping, I thought I kept hearing one of the toys say, "Caterpillar Power!  beep, beep, beep"

[Jim Scott]

A couple of nights ago, in the middle of the night while everyone was sleeping, I thought I kept hearing one of the toys say, "Caterpillar Power!  beep, beep, beep"

Now you're scaring me! 

Jim

[CHD63]

Had a good laugh yesterday when our 5 1/2 year old granddaughter asked me, "Grandma, did you ring the doorbell when I was born?"  I looked at her with a very puzzled look and I asked, "Ring the doorbell"  At this point my husband began to chuckle and said, "No Dear, she asked 'did you think she was adorable?'"

Clarice

[sgerrard]

Well I think you are a doorbell, Clarice. 

Steve

[b91221b]

Oh, my gosh...I just caught up on these posts....and I am STILL laughing!  Thanks, guys....sure made a so-so day pretty neat!!