40 Times People Lied And Later Found Out The Consequences It Had For Other People
I can’t claim that this had a profound impact on her life or anything, but my wife is from the US and we both live in the UK so there are frequent opportunities for me to lie to her for my own amusement.
Just for laughs, I tell her she’s mispronouncing words when she isn’t and vice versa. She’s not totally gullible, but I’d say she falls for it about 60% of the time. For example, I told her that in England we pronounce «soup» like «soap». Not a brilliant gag by any means, and I didn’t think it would ever leave the house, but imagine my glee when I heard her ask a guy in a supermarket where to find «chicken noodle soap».
She was particularly confused when she first heard that we use Stone as a weight measurement for people. She asked me what the excess stones were called (if, for example, you weighed 12.6 stone) and I said pebbles. It was obviously a joke, and once again I forgot I had even said it.
Months later I find out she’s been telling a bunch people that in the UK we measure things in stones and pebbles like primitive medieval folk.
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