A wife asks her husband, “Would you please go shopping for me and buy one carton of milk and if they have avocados, get 6?”
A short time later the husband comes back with 6 cartons of milk.
The wife asks him, “Why did you buy 6 cartons of milk?”
He replied, “They had avocados.”
Comment? Other examples? Did you laugh? Shake your head? Read it again?
Sadly this is about how well people listen or at least how they interpret what they hear. I got a good chuckle out of this Rick! This made my day.
Great post Rick, got a good chuckle from it.
Rick, I like this one. I work with competent professionals all over the world and they bring me this joy quite frequently. I’ve learned (very quickly) that complex compounds sentences are very dangerous.
Only a man would misinterpret the order