Hey Pandas, What Is The Weirdest Thing You Have Misinterpreted Or Misunderstood? (Closed)

I used to think The song SuperFreak by Rick James said “she’s a brick house”..... I was in my 20’s and sang the lyrics to someone and they died laughing at me and then corrected me.... oops

When I was a kid I thought "No Drinking and Driving" meant you could not drink _anything_ while driving. My parents bought bottles of water for us all to drink on a car trip and I panicked because I thought we would all be arrested.

When driving with my son in the car, he heard sia's "cheap thrills" song come on the radio (he was big time into her music then), and piped up "Mum, turn it up! It's Cheese Frills!" Omg it was funny and adorable, I corrected him later that arvo so as not to hurt his feelings

I have two. One, when I was a kid, I thought 'thank you for this day' in prayers was 'thank you for the stay' as in thanks for not killing us today. I mean I thought it was kinda hardcore but y'know
Two, I thought 'x degrees outside, with a wind chill making it more like x degrees' on the PA system at school was 'x degrees outside, with the windshield making it more like x degrees' like they were taking the temperature of the glass? And that made a lot of sense to me actually I believed that until fifth grade

Well...
1. That 2020 was gonna be a good year...
2. That people actually liked me for me...
3. That I was a good friend...
4. That I had friends...
5. Yeah... that's about it...

i thought the life of a teenager was easy. now i know being an adult in going to be bad

OK, so (I think) we have an accent. We say "-in'" instead of "-ing" at the end of a lot of words. Again, I don't know it it's just something from where we live or if it's something everywhere. My mom has a scar on her chin and I asked her about it. She said "it's from skiin'", but "skiin'" sounded like scan. So I was like "not 'scan', scar". And it went on for like 5 min. She eventually was like "I GOT IT FROM SKI-ING!" We still laugh and joke about it to this day.

I thought that the word lesbian was actually "lesbianD" and pronounced it that way for many years until a friend finally realized it and corrected me.

Well, there was this new Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance Ride and me and my family were pretty hyped about it. We waited until around midnight to get on so my mind was eaten by a slug. One of the empire officers asked me how many people were in my party so I counted everyone behind me and said 26. He wrinkled his nose and went to the other "party" and they said 3--that's the story of a Gen Y who embarrassed himself in front of the empire. The rest of the ride was fabulous and would have been better if people didn't laugh when they see me. :)

That tubing actually meant they stuck you in a big plastic tube with air holes and would float you down a river

In German, the word for sky is "Himmel" and one colloquial term for penis would be "Pimmel".
So when a student of mine would come up with the answer "Himmel" to one of my questions, I misunderstood and told him that the correct word for it was penis. Should have seen those faces, wondering whether their whole life had been a lie.

My MIL has an Buffalo accent. One day they had donuts and she held a donut stick and offered it to me. Do you want a "penis donut"? The donut did look a bit phalic-like but still! Why would she call the donut a penis??? I asked several times what she was saying to which she kept saying, a "penis donut, do you want a penis donut"? Finally after more discussion it was discovered that she was saying, "peanut donut". And yes on close inspection the donut was indeed dusted with finely pulverized peanuts. So yes, I did accept the peanut donut but I did turn down the penis donut.

I used to think that there were tiny people in our digestive system that cleaned waste with tiny brooms and send it out into the toilet. I always wanted to be a surgeon so I could see those tiny people. I was like 5 y/o.

I thought king-sized sheets in England were called "presidential sheets"

I have a friend who says fusstrated instead of frustrated. She can be frustrated a lot so she often says it. Gentle correcting has no impact on how she says it, so I just accept it as a little quirk.

i thought harry potter was a horror until i was about 5 some times it was a bit scary but harry potter is my favorite series