was rather amusingly pointed out to me yesterday just before the cg dinner that we had last night... As has already been established, it was meant to be a pot sharing event, where most of us were obliged to bring something [As usual, despite it appearing that we did not have enough food, we ended up with loads of leftovers, as all of these type of dinners normally do, but that's another story].
So, sometime earlier in the day, Meisi (don't kill me if you are reading this...) messaged me with this - "Hey i asked Adrian to bring utensils and slaves". I looked at the message and immediately knew that it must be the workings of predictive text messaging and the failure to check before sending... Now, if for a VCF dinner, we were to bring our own slaves along, that would certainly make for a very interesting event...
In any case, as you can probably gather by now (as i did after carefully examining my keypad for the grouped-together letters, Meisi did actually mean plates, and not slaves...
And this is not the first time this has happened. I remember a couple of years ago when my brother was arriving late for a dinner at some Cantonese noodle place, so he messaged me and asked me to order for him smart dual noodles. Then, of course, i was less initiated, and did not know what in the world he wanted to order. Brain food? Do smart people require a double portion? It was only after he arrived and asked where his food was that i realised he had meant roast duck noodles.
And in short, this is why, unlike most people, i always use the other form of smsing (the press 1,2,3 times depending on the letter kind - is there a proper term for that?) It can be torture on the thumbs, but is more reliable for me... No need to check the screen for any embarassing typos too...
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