I’m 28 years old and I just found out that the word is WHEELBARROW and not WHEELBARREL.
I was in Target getting a gift for Jack's 3rd birthday and I found all this fun stuff for him to play with outdoors. I bought a bug collecting bucket, a butterfly net, a lantern in the shape of a caterpillar, and a toy baseball bat and ball. I was looking for something to put it all in and I found the coolest kid's wheelbarrow. There was a sticker on the side of it with the bar code that read "wheelbarrow". I laughed and thought it was funny that there was a typo.
When I got to the party, I mentioned the mistake to someone who just looked at me kind of funny. They then mentioned that it wasn't a typo and that the word was actually wheelbarrow. I laughed like they were kidding but quickly noticed that they were looking at me with pity and I'm quite certain they were thinking, "Oh, she's so pretty."
I tried to explain that my word, wheelbarrel, made sense because clearly, when it was invented, someone had cut a barrel in half, put some handles and a wheel on it and off they went. That explanation got me a bunch of blank stares. I felt like Joey in that episode of 'Friends' where he explains that the term is "moo point" (rather than "moot point") because it's like a cow's opinion, it just doesn't matter.
I’m like Forrest Gump but with good hair and cute shoes. *sigh*
3 comments:
Haha! Moo point! I just wrote about that a few weeks ago!
But really, I think everyone has some word they say wrong or can't say or whatever.
I think there might be something wrong with your "subconscience." Heh.
Run Kendra! RUN!!! That's okay, it took me like 28 years to realize a "Scarecrow" was called as such because it is indeed intended to scare crows. Whose a preeedy girl?
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