Misunderstandings

Wierd turn of events at our conference today...

Our CEO was coming to the end of his presentation when someone realised that the person on next hadn't arrived. The problem was he was flying in from the Czech Republic especially.

A colleague rang his office to see where he was and spoke to someone who said he was in Prague. As he understood it the guy who was supposed to be coming thought our event was next month.

That really mucked up our program as he had a 30 minute tomorrow too. We were pondering what to do when he walked up behind us and said 'hello'.

Turns out that the presenter's plane was delayed and his message never arrived and his Czech colleague thought we were talking about someone else with the same name who was going to different event entirely. All very messy.

Can you give any examples of multiple misunderstandings?

Quote: Tuumble @ February 17 2009, 1:00 AM GMT

Can you give any examples of multiple misunderstandings?

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Yes.

I thought this was going to be a straightforward thread. Then the first post confused me loads, and then loads more, before asking me a simple question that wasn't confusing but left me a bit confused.

This sounds like the plot from an extraordinarily bad farce called "Whoops, There Goes The Promotion", or something.

I remember one time when I went to London with an old girlfriend, we were rushing to catch the last coach of the night, back to Liverpool, and we jumped in a mini cab, and asked the driver to take us to the Coach station. Anyway, when we arrived, we still had a good few minutes to spare, but unfortunately, he'd taken us to a pub called The Coach Station! When we did eventually get to the real station, we missed the last coach by the skin of our teeth (we could see it leaving as we ran towards it), and had to wait on the street, for the first coach, the following morning, as we didn't have any money for a hotel.

On a tour in France, we had many misunderstandings when one of the girls hit her time of the month and kept seeing signs in shops for tampons but when she went in, couldn't find any. Just loads of pens. Turns out "Tampon" in France means "Stationary".

Quote: RubyMae - Glamourous Snowdrop at Large @ February 17 2009, 1:40 AM GMT

On a tour in France, we had many misunderstandings when one of the girls hit her time of the month and kept seeing signs in shops for tampons but when she went in, couldn't find any. Just loads of pens. Turns out "Tampon" in France means "Stationary".

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Or even stationery? Actually I think they're rubber stamp pads.

I did think it was odd they had "Tampon" in big letters outside the shops. I did think myself at first "Wow they have whole shops?".

We weren't the brightest young ladies

Quote: RubyMae - Glamourous Snowdrop at Large @ February 17 2009, 1:55 AM GMT

I did think it was odd they had "Tampon" in big letters outside the shops.

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My high school's mascot was the tarpon. It's a huge, inedible sport fish. Rival schools would sneak onto campus in the middle of the night and change the large sign on the side of the building to read "HOME OF THE FIGHTING TAMPONS."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpon

How mature they all are.

Quote: Aaron @ February 17 2009, 9:59 AM GMT

How mature they all are.

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They were school kids.

No one I went to school with would have done anything of the kind. And they were morons.

Quote: Aaron @ February 17 2009, 10:38 AM GMT

No one I went to school with would have done anything of the kind. And they were morons.

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It's hardly a big thing, just kids being silly. God bless the silly. The last thing you want to be as a teenager is mature, surely? You've got another fifty years to drag that out.

I managed it reasonably well.

Wait...

Quote: Aaron @ February 17 2009, 10:42 AM GMT

I managed it reasonably well.

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Being mature? I like to think I'm still not there yet.

Quote: Matthew Stott @ February 17 2009, 10:41 AM GMT

It's hardly a big thing, just kids being silly. God bless the silly. The last thing you want to be as a teenager is mature, surely? You've got another fifty years to drag that out.

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If being immature is an excuse for obnoxious and unpleasant behaviour, then I'm against it. We've got enough twats in this country.