Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Unintentionally Out of Context

So there have been a couple of times this week where someone has said something completely normal, but it has been coupled with the mistake of being in a completely different context. Examples…

All 14 of us are on the bus headed to Terezin and Andrina asks if anyone has a band-aid for her finger. Sarah (our academic director) replies “No, I don’t have any band-aids.” Ivy then says “Suck it!” Of course, meaning that Andrina should suck her finger to stop the bleeding…but it was just funny right after Sarah’s comment…and from the person that would be least likely to say that phrase with it’s other connotation.
Other situation. We are sitting at the National Theatre waiting for The Bartered Bride to start (it’s an opera written by Smetana). We were in the last balcony (of which there are around 5 total), and I turn around to talk to the girls behind me, and I’m literally staring up their skirts because their seats are so high in relation to our row. So I say “Close your legs girls.” Maggie, who is sitting next to me, says “What?!?!?,” in astonishment. Of course, I was confused, but Miriam, who was sitting on the other side of Maggie, had just said something I hadn’t heard 2 seconds before I talked. She had said “What’s that smell?!” And, of course, Maggie thought that my answer of “close your legs girls” was in response to Miriam’s question. Hilarious!

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