June 30 2007: QOTW: Flat Tyre
As my dad picks me up after work today (a rare luxury! I’m usually left walking 20 minutes to the nearest tram stop), we hear a flapping sound - almost as though the car wheels are rolling on a flat tyre. He pulls the car over and gets out to inspect all four tyres, and scratches his head, confused. They’re all in perfect condition.
I roll my window down and stick my head out. “Dad,” I say. “Look up”.
He looks up and sees a helicopter circling above. Its propellers are making a loud, consistent flapping sound…almost like the sound of a flat tyre.
So (because I missed it this week), Question Of The Week: Have you ever made a fool of yourself by mistaking one thing/person for another?
I hugged the postman once because he wasn’t in uniform and I thought he was my granddad. It happened last year and I still blush thinking about it now.
Amber on June 30 2007 #
Aw Ambie, you probably made his day. :P
Once I was listening to this old country-type song on the radio and I thought the words were “I wanted to be a police dog” when they were actually “I wanted to be a movie star”.
Jordie on June 30 2007 #
Many-a-time! I have this really annoying habit of mistaking people for people I know, and I also have this really annoying habit of screaming the people I knows names very loudly to get the people I don’t actually knows attention…
This hasn’t just happened once, or even twice, either.
*Hangs head in shame*
Kelly on June 30 2007 #
Clubs + alcohol. Oh yeah. It’s highly embarrassing when you look back but at the time it seemed fun shouting “HEYYYY!!!” and randomly hugging someone I don’t even know.
Mish on June 30 2007 #
Oh I ALWAYS answer when I think people are talking to me and they’re talking to someone else. You think I’d learn, but I keep doing it. Haha, Amber that’s hillarious. I’ve got a similar…
I started walking off holding ‘my grandmas’ hand once when I was about five or six. My real grandma was semi-amused walking behind me. Funny thing is the grandma didn’t flinch and kept walking.
Oh and Amanda, apparently you’ve got an insane vagina. True?
Reply: Where’ve you been Paddy? Everyone already knows that’s true. :P
Paddy on June 30 2007 #
I hate that noise of a burst tyre. It happened to me on the dual carridgeway once; was an absolute nightmare.
Once when I was shopping with my mum we bought some fixed price grapes. While we continued to shop wed always eat a few grapes from the trolly. Once I strolled off looking at things and when I returned to the trolly i ate a few grapes; I thought my mum was off somewhere picking something up but it was actually someone elses trolly. HAHA
Matt on July 1 2007 #
In a word, nope.
…just kidding. I once saw somebody driving a car that was the same model as my Father’s, rushed to it (it was raining that day), opened the door, and shoved myself in before I realized a foreign face was staring wide-eyed back at me. I gulped, apologized profusely, and shoved myself outta that thing, vowing to carefully check license plates the next time I EVER got into my Father’s car!
Chantelle on July 1 2007 #
I’ve waved back to people I don’t know. I always think that I know them somehow, and then realise that’s not the case after I spy someone else waving back.
Emily on July 1 2007 #
I called out Bingo on a cruise ship (was playing for my mom) because I had gotten 5 in a row, but they were actually playing for Blackout…and I was really excited because there was a large prize money..stupid and embarrassing.
marilyn on July 1 2007 #
No particularly embarrassing moment comes to mind. Although I have grabbed a person many a time thinking they were my friend only to find my friend stopped walking with me way back :-P
Kat on July 1 2007 #
Once I went to a Chinese restaurant and started eating someone else’s fries thinking it was my order!! That was pretty embarrassing…
LMAO reading the above comments, I’ve noticed the whole “waving-at-someone-who’s-not-waving-at-you” thing is more common than I thought… I don’t feel so bad now!
Robmarie on July 3 2007 #