I'm just gonna nod and smile

You know how people always try and mouth things to you, or whisper really quietly in hopes that no one else can hear, and in turn, you can't hear either? Or maybe that's just me. I definitely cannot read kips. I can never undestand a person when they are whispering, unless it is directly in my ear, and I misunderstand what people say all the time. It's a problem. It's not because I'm deaf or anything. In fact, I like to think I have super hearing at times. It's kind of required when you are an eavesdropper such as myself. Maybe I just have selective hearing. 


Because I hate having to say "what did you say" or "I have no idea what you're saying" (like it's a sign of weakness or something), I usually just nod and smile and pretend like I know what's going on. That's also what I do when someone is telling a really long story, because I have a really short attention span. (why I'm admitting this, I don't know. If you think I've done that to you, don't worry, I haven't.) Usually this works pretty well, except when someone is asking me how I feel about something, to go do something, or about something completely irrelevant that cannot be answered with a simple shake of the head. Cortney is pretty good at discerning when I have no idea what she or someone else said, but that's just after years of practice. As I mentioned, I'm really bad at misinterpreting what a person said. It happens far too often. People need to speak more clearly! Recently, I've had two experiences where my misunderstanding a person has not benefited me in the least. 


Scenario #1:
As I mentioned in my last post, my friends and I did baptisms on Saturday. While we were driving to the Pizza Pie Cafe, we passed the MTC. I yelled hello to Hilary's Kurt, and then Forrest (I'm going to keep mentioning him in my blogs until he admits how awesome my blog is), mentioned that his cousin was there and that he had a package he was going to send him. He then said he was going to send him a tie pin, or so I thought. I thought that was kind of random, but I just went with it and started going off on how awesome that was and how everyone loves those. I think Hilary thought he said the same thing too. Then either him or David started saying something about how it's good for stains, and I'm like...what the heck, I've never heard of that before. And then it got into this five minute discussion trying to figure out what exactly was going on. Hilary and I were like, a tie pin? or a Tide pen? A pin, or pen? Tide or Tie? And everyone was just super confused. Or maybe just I was, which is entirely possible. It was one of those times I wish I had just said "Wow that's great. What a great cousin you are," and left it at that. That is a few minutes of my life I will never get back.


Scenario #2: 
Yesterday was Sunday. In case you didn't know. We were sitting in our row, and I was kind of dozing off. I felt bad, but it happens. I was also trying to figure out why it is that the Bishopric seems to always stare at our row. I am seriously convinced they think we are the "focus apartment" that needs to be watched out for. I even had a dream about that last night. Anyways, part way through, Stephanie leaned over and mouthed for me to ask Cortney for a cup, or so I thought. I just looked at her with confusion and was like "a cup? what?" and she's like "Yeah!" Once again, my partner in crime Hilary thought she said that too and we just were like...okay then. So I lean towards Rachael, who was closer to Cortney, and I'm like "Hey, tell Cortney Stephanie wants her cup" and Rachael asks me clarify, with the same look of confusion that I had, and I just shrugged my shoulders and said she wanted a cup. She passed the message on to Cortney, and Cortney looked the most confused of all of us. After this, I look back at Stephanie and I'm like "Okay why do you want a cup?" And she's like "NO! Gum!" It was a fail. And Hilary and I started laughing so hard (silently of course). I even started crying, it was so hard not to laugh out loud. For the remainder of the meeting, I kept thinking about it, and giggling every time. I'm sure the Bishopric was appalled. But it was quite funny, though I feel bad if we disrupted any part of Sacrament meeting. 


So, there we have it. I fail at life, well, at least at mouth reading, whispering, and misunderstanding people. So basically, at life. 




On the other hand, I love Friends. Such a good show, and I'm so addicted. I'm pretty sure half of the things my roommates and I say are in reference to Friends. I guess I can no longer laugh about Cindy and AJ loving it so much.