Be careful how you say it!

Be careful how you say it!

Have you ever offended someone but did not mean to?

I know I have and it’s stinks.

For example “ You have a face that could stop a clock”

To me, I thot ,gosh you are so pretty! Seriously I did.

Well, let me tell you,how wrong,wrong ,wrong I was.LOL

The person hearing it thot I was calling her anything BUT pretty, in fact in her words “ you just called me ugly”

She said you could had said “ you are so pretty you could stop time “

Wow what a difference in words.

I remember years ago one of my hospice patients had just passed and the funeral home arrived per protocol. The kind soft-spoken gentleman informed the family “ we will take the body now and yall can call the funeral home to set up a time to make arrangements.”

It was a smooth transport , or so we thought.

A few hours later,the young 10-year old grandson became very upset per his Mom.

The young grandson whose name is Joe began crying to his Mom “ where are they taking Nana’s head, where are they taking Nana’s head?

Joes Mom asked”what are you talking about, what do you mean?”

Joe explained thru his tears” that man , he said he was taking Nana’s body”

Indeed that is what the guy said!

Here is another example.

My sweet, sweet,cousin that would never knowingly offend anyone did the following.

Her best friend of 30 plus years had informed my cousin that her Mom was very ill and did not have long here on earth and her MD told her to start making funeral arrangements.

So she and my sweet cousin began the process of planning for the funeral.

Four days later the Mom passed at 2 am.

The friend didn’t want to talk to anyone but she did want my cousin to know she passed.

So she sent my cousin a text stating” she has passed”

She requested my cousin to just text her when she got the message but do not call.

My sweet cousin honored her friends request .

She didn’t call,she simply texted back “ LOL”

Yes she did.

She thought LOL meant lots of love!

Oh my gosh, you can’t help but laugh.

My cousins friend immediately called and was belly laughing, stating , “ oh I needed that , I know you thought lol had to mean something besides

“Laugh out loud”

You can imagine my cousins horror!

Oh we have laughed over that so many times .

All of this got me thinking about WA.

Wonder how many times I have said one thing, meaning one thing, yet sent a completely different message.

Hmmmm, makes me ponder !

Be careful how you say it!

Will you please share one of your blunders ?

Assuming you have one lol,

Elaine