Mixed-up Words

We all have days where our brain doesn’t quite process words the way it should. Some recent examples of our brain mix-ups for your enjoyment: 

Miss Flora when she discovered pockets on the back of her jeans:

‘I’ve got bums on my pockets!’

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Me describing the discipline during my school days to the kids’ school principal:

‘The girls got the ruler and the boys got the principal.’

What I was trying to say was that the boys got the cane from the principal. No wonder he just looked at me with his eyebrows raised!

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And then there was Mr T’s mixed up moment:

‘Haste makes waste. What’s the answer?’ he asked me.

‘I don’t know,’ I replied as I approached the computer to see what game he was playing.

‘It’s a riddle. What’s the answer?’ he asked me again.

He was attempting to complete a word verification and the words he had to type in the box were ‘Haste makes waste’. Unfortunately, because it said ‘enter answer here’ next to the box, Mr T thought it was a riddle and that he had to put the answer in the box.