One time a foreigner was asking me where's the restroom, but she had such a heavy accent, that I had to ask her to repeat herself 3 times. I just couldn't understand what she was saying so I went "mhm 🙂". She looked at me like, wtf? Then I saw her ask another person and he pointed to the restroom. Gosh I felt so dumb
One time my friend was talking about the breast cancer awareness ribbon and she said “you know, the pink cancer awareness thing” but instead I heard “pink hamster awareness thing” and I looked her in the eye and said “where did you get a pink hamster?”. She still won’t let me forget it.
Reminds me of the time I was ordering a drink and the guy asked for my name but I thought he asked for my membership card and I was like “oh no I don’t have one sorry” and the guy just paused for a second and was like “you… don’t have a name?” And saying I almost cried out of embarrassment is an understatement. :(
Once, as a barista for Starbucks, I took an old man's order and then asked for his name. He did not misunderstand and vehemently said "NO." It would have been obnoxious had it not been so funny. I made sure to bring him his latte bc nobody ever seems to remember what they literally just ordered unless their name is on it.
I once misheard "dinosaurs" as "McDonalds" while some friends of mine were having a conversation about if dinosaurs would be an invasive species if they were no longer extinct, and my only addition to the conversation was "I don't think there's anywhere that a McDonalds should be"
They would still live today and we wouldn't exist if it weren't for the KPG extinction (which I personally call a tragedy), so theoretically if we brought them back their niches would already be taken up ecologically by modern animals or they would outcompete them. The world is not as warm as it was during the mesozoic so they may take a bit to adjust, but I think they'd get the hang of it.
I had a conversation where I was MISUNDERSTOOD, not misheard, and it's hilarious enough for you to hear. So, for context, my dog had just gotten surgery. She was spayed. But I didn't know the term for it at the time, so I said, "got her uterus removed" instead. My sister was at home watching her. This conversation happened between me and a math tutor that my sister and I would go to. Tutor: "Oh, hi! Where's your sister?" Me: "Oh, she's watching the dog because she just got her uterus removed." Tutor: "She what?! What happened?" Me: "Oh, you know. We don't think she'll ever reproduce, and we didn't want to risk cancer stuff either." Tutor: "Did- Did she CONSENT to this-?" Me: "Huh-? Why would she-? No, she technically didn't, but I don't know why we'd ask her for that when it's basically impossible..." Tutor: "Is she... okay?" Me: "Oh, yeah, she is! But you should've seen her on the car ride back, it was terrible. She was slobbering all over the place, making an absolute mess! And she could barely even stay awake!" Tutor: "Yeesh..." Me: "...?" Tutor: "Welp, guess you'll have to have all of her kids for her, huh?" Me: "...Huh??" (For those of you who didn't understand, I was talking about my dog. My tutor thought I was talking about my SISTER-)
Living with an auditory processing disorder is having several of these moments daily. A coworker the other day said “can I grab this” and I thought he was asking me for “canned rabbits”
Ayyyy- I was about to say this lol. Same hat! :D [ Or same diagnosis I guess lol. The example that always springs to mind is when a friend once said she was a 'little bit artsy' and I thought she said 'I'm a little bit of a nazi' :\ ]
@@thetruthof8949 One time I my grandmother said something I don’t even remember what she said about me but my auditory processing heard as “She’s a racist!” So I said *”I’m not racist?”* I was eight lmao
Imagine being in a basement's toilet in some strangers house and asking for toilet paper, just for them to creep in and say "It's just me, dawg..." in a dark voice.
I’m a delivery driver and the other day when I knocked on someone’s door, they yelled ‘COME IN’. I panicked for a second thinking ‘well I can’t just walk inside’ but if they told me to come in, they obviously weren’t coming to the door, so I opened the door to see someone reaching the bottom of the stairs about to open the door. Wasn’t until I got back in my car that I realised they had actually shouted ‘COMING’
On a similar note, I was riding an Amtrak (the main company for passenger trains in the US). One of the staff checking my ticket complimented how nicely my ticket was printed out on photo paper. It was going to be a long ride, so I commented "I actually have a funny story about that, you see I was rushin' " Her eyes got big as she asked "Woah, you're Russian?" (this was right around the mass exodus of Russians leaving Russia), and I had to clarify I was _in a rush_ and printed it on photo paper by accident, it was just nice that it turned out looking really good.
This is a little inside joke from our family, but I decide to share it to a few others. My dad said to me.. "Im thinking about getting Kentucky fried chicken. Do you agree on that?" I misheard "Kentucky fried chicken" as "petrified chicken" and so I looked at my dad all weird and said "what is petrified chicken?!" And we both laughed hysterically. Then told it to everyone in our family.. turns out, I have an auditory processing disorder.
Btw, if you don't mind of course, how did you get tested and diagnosed with it? I've just been thinking that I have it, bc last time I checked my hearing doctor said that everything is fine and just sent me home, although I continued on mishearing or completely not understanding things that other people said
@@inkbutterfly6706 I don't have a diagnosis yet; but the same psychiatrist who diagnosed me w/ autism said that he thinks thats what's going on with me, and told me to get tested. I'm 100% that whats going on
When I got my driver's license, the lady at the BMV asked "male or female" and due to the crazy amount of noise at the place, I thought she was asking for my email. I then proceeded to go on autopilot reciting my email as she stared at me in complete horror.
Matt should really consider becoming a voice actor at this point. His ability to add so much emotion to twitter posts on the internet, plus his hilarious voice makes him perfect!
yeah usually when I watch these channels the voiceover irritates me and I just end up muting it and reading the posts myself but Matt's voiceover legitimately adds to the content
I will never ever forget that my mom was yelling at my brother because he said “I’ll do it at one.” But she misheard him and thought he said “I can do what I want.”
My little sister once told me to "eat faster", but I heard it as "You bastard" so I was like "you just called me a bastard!?" and thats how I taught a 5 year old a curse word.
Similar experience but it was a friend who misheard me, i never knew how weird a droned out fine was untill it was pointed out epically when referring to an ender dragon figurine
One time I was at the doctor’s office, just doing a check up. They asked if I vape, but I heard bake. So I said “No, not usually” To which she replied “So you do sometimes?” I replied “Well, my sister does it more. She made cookies yesterday.” We both were confused. That is when I realized it made more sense for her to have said vape.
I ran past a dude and for some reason decided to say “another gray day,” being negative about the weather and saying something a bit out of the ordinary. Taken aback, he sputtered “you too.” I didn’t blame him. He probably thought I told him have a great day. I was running after all. Plus, who says “another gray day,” randomly like that. Anyway, knowing he thought I was being positive and him being positive back to me, made my gray day a little brighter 😊
oh my god i actually have a story for this: it was during the lockdown and so classes were online (this was in early 2021), I was in an online science class and the teacher was discussing the different types of radiation waves and tested us on them, she asked what beta was, but i misheard "beta" as "feta" so i proceeded to answer with "feta is a cheese, thats all i know". Another teacher in the class then told me to focus on the work to which i said "i thought you said feta". I then was muted from the chat for the rest of that session, all because i misheard "beta".
also forgot to mention this was on ms teams, we were not allowed to use our microphones unless asked to, but most of the time we spoke through the chat
As someone who is hard of hearing, this made me laugh so much. The other day we were talking about the shouts of excited children but I heard “shelves of expired children!” 😂😂😂
@@SNA1117 The final Jeopardy answer for 12/20/22 in the category Classic Songs was “The shouts of excited children at a 1946 holiday parade are said to have inspired this perennial favorite.” (I don’t just go around talking about screaming kids….)
I was babysitting once for a family that had a really old dog named hailey. one day the mom asked me if i had heard about hailey but i heard "did you hear about the baby" and i congratulated her thinking she was going to have a baby. the dog had died... i congratulated the lady i babysit for on her dog's death.... i want to curl up in a hole and stay there every time i think about it
I was waking my dog recently and a dude working by his house came out to say hello (my dog be cute), and after my dog examining his workstation and some patting, the guy said "have a good day" to me so I immediately went "you too" on autopilot. Only then realizing that he in fact said "have a good sniff" to my dog. He looked very confused and a bit disturbed. I'm planning to avoid that route for at least the next 6 months.
once in calculus the person behind me said "oh i like your hoodie" so I turned around to say thanks but it turns out she was on the phone. She gave me the most 'fuck off i wasn't talking to you' type glare. I was so embarrassed until i realized: who tf has the audacity to have a loud phone call in the MIDDLE of class. A week later she started coughing like an 84 year old war vet with tuberculosis and never returned to class. For the record i thought my hoodie was great.
I was going through an interactive halloween actor thing, and no one had really done anything scary to me. This woman said something to my face really loud, but i have auditory processing disorder, so i stared blankly at her while i tried to figure out what she said. Later on, i went through a tunnel with strobe lights, but the ceiling was low, so i had or crouch, which caused me to see even less. All i saw was a figue walk past me, so i politely said "sorry" and scooted past them. Only when i left did i realise that was an actor meant to scare me, but i thought it was some guy 😃
I remember going on a school trip, zoning out and someone asked what my name was. I said “hello”. They asked if that was really my name but as I was still somewhat zoned out, I said “yes”. Both of us just stared, very confused about what had just occurred.
A few years ago in school I thought someone told me another person had flu and replied ‘oh no…’ It was only later on in the conversation I realised they’d said ‘flute’ Accidentally dissed an entire musical instrument
Oh my god this has happened to me TOO MUCH. Like I will never forget the time when I was in 6th grade, talking to a friend, and she was saying “so what colour of the leaver’s hoodie do you want to buy?” Except I heard it as “so what colour of the lemur hoodie do you want to get?” And I just stared at her and said “THEY MADE A HOODIE OUT OF LEMURS?!” 💀
Coming back from the beverages table at a wedding reception, I was approached by a small boy who asked, “Where did you get that dress?” Surprised, but flattered, I began to blab: “Well, it’s actually a skirt and a shirt! And I don’t remember where I got them…” I was launching into my best guesses on that when the kid, who was staring at me in mild horror, interrupted me. “No… I said, where did you get the drinks?” I cracked up laughing… the poor little guy had to wait another painfully long few seconds for his answer!
when I went abroad to an English speaking country for the first time I learned by heart some expressions like when I entered a store and they asked "do you need help" I can say "I don't think so" and thank them. And if they say "can I help you" I can say "I'm good". And one time I misheard and got them mixed up and someone asked can I help you and I replied I don't think so
I’m legitimately deaf, So I rely on lip reading. Contrary to popular belief lip reading is only 30% affective and that’s for people who are absolutely perfect at it. I’ve had some pretty bad mis “heard” things. For instants elephant and I love you look the exact same on the lips. I was on a date with this guy I barely knew( at the zoo) and I thought he said I love you. So I said (because not all deaf people can’t talk) I’m not ready for that, that’s a lot. And he went, “What?” then I remembered we were at the zoo.
One guy randomly brought up navy seals while talking with me but I thought he said baby seals so I got all happy and said I loved them and they were so adorable. I will never forget the face he made.
Once ordered a coffee and the barista asked me "cash or card?". I thought she said something about cream, so I replied "no" and just blankly stared at her
When i worked at a petrol station late night many people were too tired to process words and ended up saying "no thanks" when i said have a good evening. I respect it
My wife’s favourite story is one she wasn’t even present for. I noticed a new guy at a meeting and went over to introduce myself. He told me his name but I didn’t quite catch it and I replied “Moses?” He answered, “Richard.”
This isn't me mishearing someone, but it was definitely someone mishearing me. I think we were going into an elevator and I asked "Are we going down?" to check which button I should press. My sibling, apparently, thought I said "I will die alone" and was, reasonably, confused. And of course when asked about this my response was "Bold of you to assume I'm not taking anyone down with me."
I am hard of hearing so I mishear everything all of the time. Here’s some funny stories tho: My parents were talking about a news article they read on the internet about a guy being _rescued_ with a garden hose from a frozen lake and I heard ARRESTED so I was like “what? How is that even possible” and they were just confused and explained the story again and I was like “YOU SAID ARRESTED” and my dad was like “I SAID RESCUED” and then they just laughed about it Another time my dad came home from work after he lost his phone and he was telling my mom how he lost it and I heard “the police wanted it” so here I am freaking out that the police took my dad’s phone for some reason and he was being investigated and so I nervously asked him “why did the police want your phone?” And he was really confused and said “no the LEASE wanted my phone”. Turns out he was being sarcastic about him losing his phone in some dirt and probably running it over with his machine because he works in the oil field and they were building a lease. TL;DR I am hard of hearing so I thought my parents said a guy was arrested with a garden hose after being brought up out of a frozen lake and then I thought the police wanted my dad’s phone
Not mishearing but a misunderstanding... I work at the grocery and a man came up to me saying he was searching for Mathilde, right away I thought oh he means the chocolate milk and RIGHT before I was about to show him to the chocolate milk he said "I need to talk to her"... He meant my coworker. It was my coworkers dad. For context, Mathilde is a well known brand of chocolate milk here in Denmark.
The feeling of saying "What?" after they've repeated themselves 3 times already. Also I misheard my mom yesterday, and responded strangely, but I've blocked the awkward interaction out of my head, so I don't remember what she said or what I responded with
I usually feel embarrassed when I have to ask someone to repeat themselves more than once so instead of asking again I just give the most generic possible response
I read a trick about this that if you specify which part you're having difficulty hearing the person is more likely to give you a clear answer. if you can't understand any of it then I don't know what to do because people always think volume is the problem instead of clarity and will repeat it louder but in the same way
One time i was on a date with a girl and I told her I had a skylight in my room (window on the ceiling) but she thought I meant a nightlight but I didn’t realize at the time that she didn’t know what a skylight was. Never saw her again. She probably told all her friends that a grown man had a nightlight. I still think about that a lot
I once misheard a school janitor saying "The toilet's still clogged" and I stood there for a solid minute completely dumbfounded because I thought he said "The toilet's unplugged"
I have a really weird story to tell. I once came into the toilet room that belonged to my university. Then I saw that one of the toilet doors got stuck, so the person ended up being locked inside. She had her friend standing on the other side of the door (with us) trying to calm her down. Once we got help and the door was unlocked we discovered that the two "friends" never knew each other. Both of them falsely believed that the person standing on the other side of that door was someone they knew. Which was not the case. It was a very weird situation.
I will never forget that day in Spanish 1. My school had a foreign exchange student program and that year we had a really hot dude from Belgium that sat right next to me in that class. He spoke perfect Spanish so idk why he was in that class, but I remember he knew I had a crush on him and when it was time to partner with someone next to us, he would smile at me and speak perfect Spanish and for some reason the way he spoke and looked at me always made me flustered so often times I got distracted. This is one of those days where the teacher would speak Spanish and ask a si or no question and we had to reply to our partner or something, I can't quite remember. All I remember was staring into those beautiful blue eyes and hearing my teacher ask "Si or no?" To something and I just said "si" instead of no. The whole class grew silent and stared at me before bursting out laughing, includint my teacher. Apparently she asked the class if they thought Dr. Phil was "muy sexy" and I had said yes to that. I never lived that shit down till I graduated.
The other week my friend asked me something while she was eating a sandwich and I misheard her say "If my sandwich was a dinosaur what type of dinosaur would it be?" I confidently said "Brachiosaurus" and the poor girl just stared at me. I also never found out the original question. 🤷
I work as a house keeper in family hotel in germany. One day my boss asked me to work in the kitchen to help his wife during breakfast service since the usual worker is sick. I am an Auslander student so my german is not fluent. In the middle of the work, my boss' wife asked me "Willst du rauchen gehen?" which mean: "would you like to smoke?" Which i refuse since i don't smoke. Then she just said ok and go out of the kitchen to deliver the breakfast to the guests. After couple of seconds suddenly my brain starting to question like why would she asked me if i would like to smoke even during this busy hours? Then i realized what she actually said to me was "Willst du raus gehen?" Which mean: would you like to go/get out? which is a simplified sentence from "would you like to go out deliver this breakfast to the guest?". Upon realizing that i felt very guilty cus i literally refuse the order of my superior for no reason. After she came back to the kitchen i immediately apologize and explain my misunderstanding. Then she told her husband and they both just laugh at the hilarious situation. Thanks god they are good people.
“My coworker asked how my life is but I thought he asked how my leg is and I said “it only hurts when I pay attention to it” I mean, it’s relatable and true either way Edit: not to be that guy, but to be that guy, I somehow got 243 likes in 1 and a half days. thanks ig
When I was a kid, my extended family drew names for Christmas to choose who we'd buy presents for, and I drew my aunt's name. Well, one time she was asking all of us kids what we wanted for Christmas, but I wasn't paying attention, I was playing. So when I heard her call my name, I didn't hear "what do you want for Christmas" I heard "who did you get for Christmas," and so I scoffed and told her "I'm not telling YOU that." She looked hurt, and I didn't realize until I saw that SHE had MY name, that she was asking me what I wanted, not whose name I drew. I still feel mortified at being so rude about it lmao.
I'll never forget that time a friend of mine lost his passport while on holiday so we needed to go to the police to report it. We got in a cab and told the driver to take us to the nearest police station. Dude drives us around town for a while, then stops, gets out and tells us to follow him. He then led us into a store and pointed at a shelve with playstations on it.
I once misheard “trash” as mash” while my mom told me to take the trash out, so instead of taking the trash out, I removed all the mash from her Sunday dinner and threw it into the neighbour’s backyard. 💀
TL/DR: Misheard my doctor's question after nearly fainting due to a needle. When I was younger, I nearly fainted after a vaccine (I'm terribly afraid of needles). The doctor laid me down and made sure that I was alright. Now, I speak Italian as a motherlanguage (southern Switzerland), so this might be a bit difficult to understand. He asked me if I felt dizzy with "ti gira la testa?" (Does your head turn?) And I mistook it as "gira la testa" (turn your head). I promptly did it, as I thought he might have wanted to check something. I then realised by the look on his face, and cringed greatly. Sometimes I still think about it and it's still somewhat annoying...
The brain: the self-declared most complex structure in the universe, and yet it still refuses to hear correctly and also constantly fixates on the times when it didn't
@@vermilisix So true, we hyperfixate on tiny mistakes and over not saying the right thing, even though realistically no one will judge you over it and they'll probably forget all about it the next day.
I once had this dude in my class on the day of exams ride past me on a bicycle, when I was waiting outside by myself. He's usually a chill dude, so when I heard him say "shouldn't have come, today (name)" in a deep voice I was concerned. Later that day I realized that he probably said "see you on Tuesday!"
When the plumber asked "d'ya mind if I use the bathroom" and I thought he said "D'ya If I show you the bathroom" thinking he wanted to me to see something in there, he gave me the dirtiest look when I tried to join.
One time I called the bank at my old job and when they were verifying me, he asked for the sixth letter of the security question "favourite fictional character" but I thought he said "what's the sex of your favourite fictional character" so I said, confused, "uhh female..?" and we were both lost
Oh man this is relatable. I seem to have inherited a hearing problem my mom has which causes us to *constantly* mishear things, which as you can imagine very frequently leads to awkward conversations. Only one I can remember off the top of my head right now is when I asked her if urine is sterile and she thought I asked if "Aaron is sterile". That was awkward.
I was having a panic attack in spanish class once (situational mutism) and the visiting student from Mexico said something with “mejorar” in it (I guess “it’ll be okay” or something) and I thought she was asking my major so I said “matemática” and every time I think about this I want to actually die
I think I have something similar, it's ridiculous the amount of times I was unable to read anything out loud or do the speaking exercises in Spanish class Even still, it's kinda funny to imagine someone going "it'll be okay" and just responding "math"
My story on this subject is that I was a a restaurant with two of my friends and I ordered a brownie. She asked me if I was allergic to peanuts and I thought she said do you want peanuts so I responded with “I’m good” and my friends looked at me in silence for a moment
I once went out on a date with this guy I really liked and he asked me if I liked horror movies which I somehow misheard as ‘porn movies’ and just started elaborating on the topic💀💀
omg this is very similar to mine, I was with my cousin whose american (im from new zealand), and she was like "do you like horror movies" and I thought she said "whore movies" for like a solid 10 mins no matter how many times she repeated herself lmao
That reminds me when I was asking my American cousin for an eraser. In my English accent so she thought I was asking for a razor. So then I just used the English for eraser which is rubber to which she exclaimed horrified, “What do you want a condom for?!” 😂
Oh geez. I’ve got two. Both at a call center. I asked a lady her middle initial, she replied “y” so i said back, “because i’m required to ask it.” This went on 5 minutes before my idiot brain caught on. The other was the guy calling about Ashleigh’s account. I asked his relation to Ashleigh, he replied, “I AM Ashleigh” with the most “i’m so fucking done with this name” tone i’ve ever heard.
A couple weeks ago i was walking the dogs with my mom, she said something but since we were right next to busy traffic i couldn't hear her and just said "okay" or something....turns out she was asking the dogs if they wanted to sniff the fence we were walking next to and she just started memeing on me for it. Just recently i went to go run some errands with her and i told her that i was able to smell smoke for some reason and she said "YOU'RE GONNA SMELL THAT BUT YOU WOULDN'T SNIFF THE FENCE?!?!?!"
Matt, make a video on stupid things people believed as a kid. For example, I believed that the moon was a bloody stalker that would follow my family everywhere whenever we were in a vehicle.
I thought people get pregnant by telling the doctor how many children they want, and the doctor would extract both parents' DNA and inject the Baby Formula into the mother's stomach. All the way until I was 15. I was 14 when I learned Santa Claus was my Asian parents trying to do something White for their children and apparently my little brother already figured this out a year before I did. Yes, I did get called an "imaginative child" by my teachers when I was younger.
another thing that falls under this would be white lies our parents told us as children ex. it being illegal to have the light on in the car while driving, swallowing gum will kill you, there is no faceless man in the kitchen window, etc..
I thought elbow grease was a real product that you could buy in the store and rub on your elbows to help you work better. I was well into my teens before I discovered that it was just a figure of speech. Conversely, I thought that "douche bag" was just a figure of speech all the way until the age of 22 when I saw that South Park episode and learned it was a feminine hygiene product.
My friend was telling me a story and she said "I was waiting at the bus stop" but I somehow heard "I did cocaine at the bus stop". It's been an inside joke ever since
I used to participate in a girl group in highschool during recess and we did various activities and ate lunch together. A girl in the group who was sitting beside me asked ''could you pass me the butter?'', I couldn't hear anything because there was loud talking so I thought she said ''Did you also want butter?'' and I said ''no'' and she looked at me confused and disgusted. I'm literally so deaf I can't skullemoji
I'm late to the party but I've got 2: 1. Once I had to confirm my personal details over the phone to a guy with an Italian accent. I confirmed my phone number and then he said 'is it Laura?' (Which is my name) but Laura in an Italian accent sounds like 'louder' .. so I thought he wanted me to speak louder and proceeded to repeat my phone number louder, to which he said 'Laura?' again and I repeated it even louder. The cycle went on for about 5 minutes until I was practically screaming down the phone before he just gave up with me 2. A hairdresser once asked what I was up to that weekend to which I told her I was going to a bbq. Later she asked where my parting was but I thought she said 'party' so I said 'oh it's a few miles away'. And she just stared at me and gave me the most condescending look of my life
One time my brother asked my dad "Why are we parking on the side of the road" and my dad thought he said "Are we parking on the side of the road" so he replied with "yes" 💀💀💀
Once when I was about 4 or 5 me and my parents were in Scotland and since English was a new language to us we still didn’t understand much and especially with a Scottish accent it was even harder so I was in nursery my mum was coming to pick me up when a woman walked past her and went “WOOF” and in a panic my mum just went “WOOF” back and the woman just smiled and walked away. Turns out we think she was saying mornin in a really scotish accent and we couldn’t understand it💀🤚 btw were from Italy
The best part is these people heard something wrong and completely off the wall but are so quick to go along with it without question like “idk why my bank is asking about drones but if you insist-“
One time I was on the phone to make an appointment at the doctors, I thought the lady randomly asked "what time did you go to bed?" Turns out they just asked when I wanted my appointment. I repeated what I thought I heard out loud without thinking because I was confused, they just laughed and repeated what they said. Luckily I heard it the second time. The appointment was about my hearing lol.
This video struck me as especially hilarious because I have something called general auditory disorder. In effect I constantly and consistently misunderstand what words people say, as if everyone around me is speaking Simlish. And it has nothing to do with volume either; you can be super loud or super quiet and I have as good a chance of understanding you either way. Which doesn't prevent most people from shouting in my face... It's resulted in so many misunderstandings I now as an adult have a habit of repeating anything important back to ensure I heard correctly. Some people find it irritating but it's better that than me screwing something up because I misheard you.
Man this reminds me of one time when I was talking with a neighbor and he was telling me a story. I didn't understand a single word he said and just nodded along and did a small laugh or smile here and there to try to at least make it seem like something was getting through, only for him to end up asking me if I heard any of what he said to which I told him no. He then told me the story again, which I WAS able to understand, and boy. It was NOT a story you should smile and nod along to aimlessly. Ended up being about a tragic accident his friend was in years before.
Finally, another question I can answer. My friend asked "what's the answer to this?" But I heard "what's the Anthony to this?" So I said back to her "why are you talking about Anthony? Do you like him?" Just as the guy called Anthony walked past our desk. Another was when a doctor told me to lift up my shirt so he could listen to my breathing but I heard "life your shirt please" and I just stared at him until he repeated himself 💀
3:18 I actually work at a Chick-fil-A, the amount of times I've asked people for their name and they start giving me thier order bro. I know darn well your name isn't "Number one with medium fries, medium coke and 3 Chick-fil-A sauce packets".
I work at a library. Last week a woman called and asked if we had law books. But I, of course, heard her ask if we had *all* books. I replied "We have a lot of books, but we don't have every book in existence." Gave my friend a good laugh, though.
Man, I can't recall how many times I've watched your videos with my friends and literally choked from laughing. *My friends are very concerned...* Great video!
I have bronchitis right now, went through the 5 stages of grief Chuckled, laughed, it turned into coughs, got worse, chocked, started gagging, almost threw up
One time I was playing codenames with my family and my mom was the codemaster and she gave the word “veterinarian” but I heard “veteran” so I was like “Oh, so then the word ‘army’ would apply then right?” Everyone looked at me like I was an absolute idiot.
this happened to me So i moved to a country where there is a definite accent difference from where I am from And I join this school This boy sees me and he says “hiya” (The H isn’t pronounced) There is an “Iya” in our class So I go, “ that’s not my name” He repeats 5 times until he says “ I was saying hiya” I die inside every time i think about it
I always mishear people for example. My friend said that his hands hurt and I exclaimed at him with the most confused voice saying "You have a (woman's private part)? " or another time where another of my friend said that their mother was frying something and I replied saying "oh sorry for your loss." She took a moment to comprehend what I said and was like "no my mother's not dead she's frying something, your ears need help"
@@Keznen vagina > pussy > paws > hands???????????????????? or maybe he heard "my [inaudible] hurt" and filled in the blank, or some combination of hand and hurt
This happened a few months ago. However before I begin I’d like to say, problems with hearing run in my family, so this shit happens a lot and I could literally fill a book with all the times I’ve miss heard someone, but I’ll just say the most embarrassing and recent. So I was at school and my friend who I flirt back and forth with said something, it was like, “Maybe you could be mine?~” and I misheard that as “maybe you could use mine” so I said “no- well maybe” (we let each other use our notes or something in case we forget ours, so I thought that’s what he meant) and he was like “what wait really” and I was confused “huh- wait what did you say” he didn’t tell me, but I kept thinking back and realized what he said finally and I was so close to screaming for multiple reasons.
I once misheard the lyrics to the song in Peter Pan called you can fly you can fly you can fly instead of hearing "take the path that moonbeams make" I heard "think of Batman pooping snakes" 💀
Years ago I was walking on the street talking to my aunt on my cellphone. She has lots of dental problems and I jokingly said “if only you had teeth on your tongue.” This woman walking beside me looked at me and said “I know right?” No idea what she thought I said but it still cracks me up.
I get the confusion at 1:00 because as a nearsighted person I have been told to walk around the optician's before (they tell you to check if the floor's lines are warping or not to make sure they fixed your astigmatism) and look around 😭😭
Last winter my coworker had to leave work early bc her grandma lost her heat. I thought she said "my mawmaw lost her teeth", so I said in all seriousness 'Oh its not that bad, she can live without her teeth for a few hours, she has dentures yeah?" She and two other folks laughed hysterically, mostly bc my reply was so earnest.
I once went into Lidl to ask for a job, so I went to the first member of staff I saw and said “have you got any jobs here?”… she looked at me like I was some complete lunatic and said “ummm.. I’ll just go and get my manager”, the manager eventually walked over, looking equally confused and I asked him the same question “do you have any jobs here?” He stared at me for a second and then said “OHHH so you’re not looking for dogs?” 💀
0:40-I have such a similar story. I was in my Humanities Class 2 weeks ago and my peer and teacher were having a small argument of either she or my teacher's 2nd grade daughter would win a fight. My dumbass didn't hear right so I asked him (my teacher), "what kind?" He looked at me in so much confusion so I figured he didn't hear me the first time so I asked again but this time I said, "what kind of dog is it?" May I mention he has blue ish green eyes so he was practically staring into my soul and he slowly said. "D a u g h t e r.... I thought you were the nice one. My daughter is *not* a dog." Needless to say, I could not stop apologizing for the rest of the time in his class. Oh how horrible it was considering the fact I burst out laughing after he had said that to the point where there were tears in my eyes. I'm definitely failing his class.
"My Grandma had 6 jokes(strokes)" "So she has 6 children and doesn't like any of them?" "What? No just my mom and she loves her. I said STROKES." "😮 My bad."
I honestly don't think i'd laugh as much at these videos if it wasn't you voicing them, you just sound so happy and chaotic, and i can't help but laugh. You'd be the best voice actor ever ❤️
The news story was about underage FLDS girls being transported in a storage trailer most likely to be forced into marriage in a secret location. The arrested the “prophet” in Arizona I believe. One of the girls was 11 and I was absolutely livid. Now I’m mad all over again so I have to rewatch this video!
"life only hurts when I pay attention to it" hit me on a spiritual level
THATS MORE TRUE NOW THAN BEFORRRRRRREEE
@@TsukasaRui71684 the video is 1hr old
@@TsukasaRui71684 yeah i remember 1 hour ago when this wasn't true
that needs to be on a T-shirt....
@@Secret4444_ you know that's not what he meant bruh 💀
The worst feeling is when someone says something you don't hear so you nod or just say "mhm" and they repeat the question 😭💀💀
And then you don’t hear the question a second time and have to tell them to repeat it again 💀
and sometimes whatever they say is actually really bad so they look at you all shocked when you actually didn’t know what they said 😭
One time a foreigner was asking me where's the restroom, but she had such a heavy accent, that I had to ask her to repeat herself 3 times. I just couldn't understand what she was saying so I went "mhm 🙂". She looked at me like, wtf? Then I saw her ask another person and he pointed to the restroom. Gosh I felt so dumb
SKULL 💀
or when you laugh to try & play it off like you heard them but they said nothing funny , proceeding to ask you why you just laughed
One time my friend was talking about the breast cancer awareness ribbon and she said “you know, the pink cancer awareness thing” but instead I heard “pink hamster awareness thing” and I looked her in the eye and said “where did you get a pink hamster?”. She still won’t let me forget it.
😂😂😂😂
Reminds me of the time I was ordering a drink and the guy asked for my name but I thought he asked for my membership card and I was like “oh no I don’t have one sorry” and the guy just paused for a second and was like “you… don’t have a name?” And saying I almost cried out of embarrassment is an understatement. :(
Once, as a barista for Starbucks, I took an old man's order and then asked for his name. He did not misunderstand and vehemently said "NO." It would have been obnoxious had it not been so funny. I made sure to bring him his latte bc nobody ever seems to remember what they literally just ordered unless their name is on it.
SKULL EMOJI 💀
@Ashley Kinder Lol, you should have written "No" on it
Matt's voice is a perfect mix of passive aggressive and happy
And sarcastic
@@LeoBezan Passive hapgressastic
@@Spongyboi897 stop
@@karma4638 no, you stop
Mhm
I once misheard "dinosaurs" as "McDonalds" while some friends of mine were having a conversation about if dinosaurs would be an invasive species if they were no longer extinct, and my only addition to the conversation was "I don't think there's anywhere that a McDonalds should be"
They would still live today and we wouldn't exist if it weren't for the KPG extinction (which I personally call a tragedy), so theoretically if we brought them back their niches would already be taken up ecologically by modern animals or they would outcompete them. The world is not as warm as it was during the mesozoic so they may take a bit to adjust, but I think they'd get the hang of it.
@@bigchungus6853 The M in McDonald's is for Mesozoic?
@@shytendeakatamanoir9740 what are you talking about??
Thanks for giving me a laugh.
@@bigchungus6853 about the mesozoic mcdonalds
I had a conversation where I was MISUNDERSTOOD, not misheard, and it's hilarious enough for you to hear.
So, for context, my dog had just gotten surgery. She was spayed. But I didn't know the term for it at the time, so I said, "got her uterus removed" instead. My sister was at home watching her.
This conversation happened between me and a math tutor that my sister and I would go to.
Tutor: "Oh, hi! Where's your sister?"
Me: "Oh, she's watching the dog because she just got her uterus removed."
Tutor: "She what?! What happened?"
Me: "Oh, you know. We don't think she'll ever reproduce, and we didn't want to risk cancer stuff either."
Tutor: "Did- Did she CONSENT to this-?"
Me: "Huh-? Why would she-? No, she technically didn't, but I don't know why we'd ask her for that when it's basically impossible..."
Tutor: "Is she... okay?"
Me: "Oh, yeah, she is! But you should've seen her on the car ride back, it was terrible. She was slobbering all over the place, making an absolute mess! And she could barely even stay awake!"
Tutor: "Yeesh..."
Me: "...?"
Tutor: "Welp, guess you'll have to have all of her kids for her, huh?"
Me: "...Huh??"
(For those of you who didn't understand, I was talking about my dog. My tutor thought I was talking about my SISTER-)
Oh my!!
that's hilarious
that's wild ahahaha
Lmfao😂
DUDE HJJAHAAHAHAH 😂
Living with an auditory processing disorder is having several of these moments daily. A coworker the other day said “can I grab this” and I thought he was asking me for “canned rabbits”
Lmao
Ayyyy- I was about to say this lol. Same hat! :D [ Or same diagnosis I guess lol. The example that always springs to mind is when a friend once said she was a 'little bit artsy' and I thought she said 'I'm a little bit of a nazi' :\ ]
I know someone named Karen and my sister in law is named Taryn so i legit get their names confused all the time
@@thetruthof8949same!
@@thetruthof8949 One time I my grandmother said something I don’t even remember what she said about me but my auditory processing heard as “She’s a racist!”
So I said *”I’m not racist?”* I was eight lmao
Imagine being in a basement's toilet in some strangers house and asking for toilet paper, just for them to creep in and say "It's just me, dawg..." in a dark voice.
I would probably have promptly sat back down on the toilet and proceeded to empty out more.
then he metamorphoses into toilet paper 💀🤚
@@rxquettes402 💀
@@rxquettes402 *Paralyzer by Finger Eleven plays*
(Disappears down pipes like Super Mario)
To be fair, "It only hurts when I pay attention to it" is still a pretty valid assessment.
@@Imjustkendall what does that have to do with anything-
@@The-one-and-only-Fruitcake hehehhehehehhehehee
@@Imjustkendall that doesn’t answer my question.
@@The-one-and-only-Fruitcake just watch rise of the ninja turtles.
@@Imjustkendall no, I don’t want to. Not the kind of thing I’m into.
I’m a delivery driver and the other day when I knocked on someone’s door, they yelled ‘COME IN’. I panicked for a second thinking ‘well I can’t just walk inside’ but if they told me to come in, they obviously weren’t coming to the door, so I opened the door to see someone reaching the bottom of the stairs about to open the door. Wasn’t until I got back in my car that I realised they had actually shouted ‘COMING’
hahahahaha
On a similar note, I was riding an Amtrak (the main company for passenger trains in the US). One of the staff checking my ticket complimented how nicely my ticket was printed out on photo paper. It was going to be a long ride, so I commented "I actually have a funny story about that, you see I was rushin' "
Her eyes got big as she asked "Woah, you're Russian?" (this was right around the mass exodus of Russians leaving Russia), and I had to clarify I was _in a rush_ and printed it on photo paper by accident, it was just nice that it turned out looking really good.
This is a little inside joke from our family, but I decide to share it to a few others.
My dad said to me.. "Im thinking about getting Kentucky fried chicken. Do you agree on that?" I misheard "Kentucky fried chicken" as "petrified chicken" and so I looked at my dad all weird and said "what is petrified chicken?!" And we both laughed hysterically. Then told it to everyone in our family.. turns out, I have an auditory processing disorder.
I’m calling KFC petrified chicken from now on 😂
The last bit is a whole plot twist omg
Btw, if you don't mind of course, how did you get tested and diagnosed with it? I've just been thinking that I have it, bc last time I checked my hearing doctor said that everything is fine and just sent me home, although I continued on mishearing or completely not understanding things that other people said
@@inkbutterfly6706 I don't have a diagnosis yet; but the same psychiatrist who diagnosed me w/ autism said that he thinks thats what's going on with me, and told me to get tested. I'm 100% that whats going on
@@Foryou_xoxo ooh, thank you a lot!
When I got my driver's license, the lady at the BMV asked "male or female" and due to the crazy amount of noise at the place, I thought she was asking for my email. I then proceeded to go on autopilot reciting my email as she stared at me in complete horror.
Ah yes, the three genders: male, female and OP's e-mail
@@joelleweetjewel9948 IT RHYMES
OMFG IT RHYMES
@@majorse203 You do realise that it almost always rhymes when something is misheard, right?
Haha I'm be an idiot and point out the fact there's 169 likes
@@Tranqwhirl yeah
Matt should really consider becoming a voice actor at this point. His ability to add so much emotion to twitter posts on the internet, plus his hilarious voice makes him perfect!
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@marcoscolga24 one of those ghost mfs from soul
That and the fact he can read out keyboard spams
Or he can just be the funny man on the internet that narrates other internet people
yeah usually when I watch these channels the voiceover irritates me and I just end up muting it and reading the posts myself but Matt's voiceover legitimately adds to the content
I will never ever forget that my mom was yelling at my brother because he said “I’ll do it at one.” But she misheard him and thought he said “I can do what I want.”
I cannot count the number of times I've misheard something completely innocent as something very dirty
Same for me except with reading things. I don't even have an excuse, it's just my mind being in the gutter.
My little sister once told me to "eat faster", but I heard it as "You bastard" so I was like "you just called me a bastard!?" and thats how I taught a 5 year old a curse word.
Anyone else get the feeling their parents say sus things in regular conversations deliberately?
@@releighwatson2489 bastard is a curse word!!!??
Similar experience but it was a friend who misheard me, i never knew how weird a droned out fine was untill it was pointed out epically when referring to an ender dragon figurine
One time I was at the doctor’s office, just doing a check up. They asked if I vape, but I heard bake. So I said “No, not usually” To which she replied “So you do sometimes?” I replied “Well, my sister does it more. She made cookies yesterday.” We both were confused.
That is when I realized it made more sense for her to have said vape.
"I'm sorry, but you have choc-chip lung. Do you bake?"
Lol and I thought you meant bake as in weed 😂
@@tori5738 nope. No drugs here.
@@emmacomstock9488 haha fair enough 😁
How did i misread bake as bike
I ran past a dude and for some reason decided to say “another gray day,” being negative about the weather and saying something a bit out of the ordinary.
Taken aback, he sputtered “you too.”
I didn’t blame him. He probably thought I told him have a great day. I was running after all. Plus, who says “another gray day,” randomly like that.
Anyway, knowing he thought I was being positive and him being positive back to me, made my gray day a little brighter 😊
I think he might have posted that on Reddit because that was actually featured in one of the sequels to this video
@@EdnaK728 thats the joke babes
oh my god i actually have a story for this:
it was during the lockdown and so classes were online (this was in early 2021), I was in an online science class and the teacher was discussing the different types of radiation waves and tested us on them, she asked what beta was, but i misheard "beta" as "feta" so i proceeded to answer with "feta is a cheese, thats all i know". Another teacher in the class then told me to focus on the work to which i said "i thought you said feta".
I then was muted from the chat for the rest of that session, all because i misheard "beta".
@@nolliepollie ikr lmao
also forgot to mention this was on ms teams, we were not allowed to use our microphones unless asked to, but most of the time we spoke through the chat
More of an instance of "just use your common sense" than "how dare you mishear me"
@@diegoxavier9107 i did realise that i misheard the teacher pretty quickly but they shouldn't've muted me because that was such a small mistake
@@KompridiCR Also pretty likely that they thought you were goofing off and trying to derail class on purpose
As someone who is hard of hearing, this made me laugh so much. The other day we were talking about the shouts of excited children but I heard “shelves of expired children!” 😂😂😂
walmart getting desperate these days… selling expired children. disappointing 😔
@@theairisamagician830 The thought did put a strange Image in my head! Walmart would be the best place to find last year’s models, I reckon!
@@SNA1117 The final Jeopardy answer for 12/20/22 in the category Classic Songs was “The shouts of excited children at a 1946 holiday parade are said to have inspired this perennial favorite.” (I don’t just go around talking about screaming kids….)
pardon?? 💀
Shelves of expired children is better than shouting children
I was babysitting once for a family that had a really old dog named hailey. one day the mom asked me if i had heard about hailey but i heard "did you hear about the baby" and i congratulated her thinking she was going to have a baby. the dog had died... i congratulated the lady i babysit for on her dog's death.... i want to curl up in a hole and stay there every time i think about it
I was waking my dog recently and a dude working by his house came out to say hello (my dog be cute), and after my dog examining his workstation and some patting, the guy said "have a good day" to me so I immediately went "you too" on autopilot. Only then realizing that he in fact said "have a good sniff" to my dog. He looked very confused and a bit disturbed. I'm planning to avoid that route for at least the next 6 months.
Waking or walking?
once in calculus the person behind me said "oh i like your hoodie" so I turned around to say thanks but it turns out she was on the phone. She gave me the most 'fuck off i wasn't talking to you' type glare. I was so embarrassed until i realized: who tf has the audacity to have a loud phone call in the MIDDLE of class. A week later she started coughing like an 84 year old war vet with tuberculosis and never returned to class. For the record i thought my hoodie was great.
wtf happened to her? you can't just drop information like that and leave it open to speculation!
what kinda hoodie was it?
Bro caught a fucking plague for crossing you 💀⚰
Bitches get karma
@@roastedpinots947 im guessing she either dropped the class or died, nasa hoodie
killed by karma
I once told a girl I loathe her.
She misheard it and we're still together 8 years later.
This. Is failing upwards
Did she tho. Hmming intensifies....
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is this actually true evan 🤨🤨
what
I was going through an interactive halloween actor thing, and no one had really done anything scary to me. This woman said something to my face really loud, but i have auditory processing disorder, so i stared blankly at her while i tried to figure out what she said. Later on, i went through a tunnel with strobe lights, but the ceiling was low, so i had or crouch, which caused me to see even less. All i saw was a figue walk past me, so i politely said "sorry" and scooted past them. Only when i left did i realise that was an actor meant to scare me, but i thought it was some guy 😃
Honestly, that is a great reaction. They were probably so confused, I love it
I remember going on a school trip, zoning out and someone asked what my name was. I said “hello”. They asked if that was really my name but as I was still somewhat zoned out, I said “yes”.
Both of us just stared, very confused about what had just occurred.
A few years ago in school I thought someone told me another person had flu and replied ‘oh no…’
It was only later on in the conversation I realised they’d said ‘flute’
Accidentally dissed an entire musical instrument
honestly valid
As a flute player: how could you 😢😆
@@sabotower1792 don’t be like that to the flute, it’s the best instrument
HAH
@@Lemuralas a saxophone player, I wish I could actually blow into a flute because I would totally play one
Oh my god this has happened to me TOO MUCH. Like I will never forget the time when I was in 6th grade, talking to a friend, and she was saying “so what colour of the leaver’s hoodie do you want to buy?” Except I heard it as “so what colour of the lemur hoodie do you want to get?” And I just stared at her and said “THEY MADE A HOODIE OUT OF LEMURS?!” 💀
here before it blows up
@@JosTheChair before what blows up
@@JosTheChair :0 thank you for thinking this comment will blow up
@@Noel_Wood my house
@@jandalljinky2910 oh dear god!1!1!1!
Coming back from the beverages table at a wedding reception, I was approached by a small boy who asked, “Where did you get that dress?” Surprised, but flattered, I began to blab: “Well, it’s actually a skirt and a shirt! And I don’t remember where I got them…” I was launching into my best guesses on that when the kid, who was staring at me in mild horror, interrupted me. “No… I said, where did you get the drinks?” I cracked up laughing… the poor little guy had to wait another painfully long few seconds for his answer!
when I went abroad to an English speaking country for the first time I learned by heart some expressions like when I entered a store and they asked "do you need help" I can say "I don't think so" and thank them. And if they say "can I help you" I can say "I'm good". And one time I misheard and got them mixed up and someone asked can I help you and I replied I don't think so
I’m legitimately deaf, So I rely on lip reading. Contrary to popular belief lip reading is only 30% affective and that’s for people who are absolutely perfect at it. I’ve had some pretty bad mis “heard” things. For instants elephant and I love you look the exact same on the lips. I was on a date with this guy I barely knew( at the zoo) and I thought he said I love you. So I said (because not all deaf people can’t talk) I’m not ready for that, that’s a lot. And he went, “What?” then I remembered we were at the zoo.
i knew a little boy that would use the sign for peach when he meant "b*tch".
Elephants can be a lot to take in XD
@@ebony721especially considering their large size.
Matt actually laughing at "spicy d" was funnier to me than the tweet, because I don't think I've ever heard this man genuinely laugh before
he has a couple times and it always gets me
cool rapper name yo
You know it’ll be good when Matt can’t hold it in
One guy randomly brought up navy seals while talking with me but I thought he said baby seals so I got all happy and said I loved them and they were so adorable. I will never forget the face he made.
😂😂😂😂
Awwwwww Navy Seals!!!
@@becklivesinurwallz1134 so cute, I wanna pick their faces
@@CupOfTeaIndieCharts.just boop them all on the nose!
I would like you to know that this gave me a long involuntary chuckle that probably sounded like I was dying
Once ordered a coffee and the barista asked me "cash or card?". I thought she said something about cream, so I replied "no" and just blankly stared at her
When i worked at a petrol station late night many people were too tired to process words and ended up saying "no thanks" when i said have a good evening. I respect it
My wife’s favourite story is one she wasn’t even present for. I noticed a new guy at a meeting and went over to introduce myself. He told me his name but I didn’t quite catch it and I replied “Moses?” He answered, “Richard.”
ah yes, *moses*
😭
This is so random it made me laugh 😂😂
Wth 😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂 if he was new there he probably remembers that, too.
This isn't me mishearing someone, but it was definitely someone mishearing me.
I think we were going into an elevator and I asked "Are we going down?" to check which button I should press. My sibling, apparently, thought I said "I will die alone" and was, reasonably, confused.
And of course when asked about this my response was "Bold of you to assume I'm not taking anyone down with me."
Haha
and then the elevator went down and you all died.... together!
@@stormofdogz Oh wow how'd you guess :0
@@tallshadowclan it just made sense for it to go that way :D
become a pilot
I am hard of hearing so I mishear everything all of the time. Here’s some funny stories tho:
My parents were talking about a news article they read on the internet about a guy being _rescued_ with a garden hose from a frozen lake and I heard ARRESTED so I was like “what? How is that even possible” and they were just confused and explained the story again and I was like “YOU SAID ARRESTED” and my dad was like “I SAID RESCUED” and then they just laughed about it
Another time my dad came home from work after he lost his phone and he was telling my mom how he lost it and I heard “the police wanted it” so here I am freaking out that the police took my dad’s phone for some reason and he was being investigated and so I nervously asked him “why did the police want your phone?” And he was really confused and said “no the LEASE wanted my phone”. Turns out he was being sarcastic about him losing his phone in some dirt and probably running it over with his machine because he works in the oil field and they were building a lease.
TL;DR I am hard of hearing so I thought my parents said a guy was arrested with a garden hose after being brought up out of a frozen lake and then I thought the police wanted my dad’s phone
0:52
"yo thats sick" is outrageous 💀😭
Not mishearing but a misunderstanding... I work at the grocery and a man came up to me saying he was searching for Mathilde, right away I thought oh he means the chocolate milk and RIGHT before I was about to show him to the chocolate milk he said "I need to talk to her"... He meant my coworker. It was my coworkers dad.
For context, Mathilde is a well known brand of chocolate milk here in Denmark.
💀
Ohh I'm also from Denmark🇩🇰 I don't like Mathilde though (the chocolate milk, for clarity)
The feeling of saying "What?" after they've repeated themselves 3 times already. Also I misheard my mom yesterday, and responded strangely, but I've blocked the awkward interaction out of my head, so I don't remember what she said or what I responded with
I usually feel embarrassed when I have to ask someone to repeat themselves more than once so instead of asking again I just give the most generic possible response
I read a trick about this that if you specify which part you're having difficulty hearing the person is more likely to give you a clear answer. if you can't understand any of it then I don't know what to do because people always think volume is the problem instead of clarity and will repeat it louder but in the same way
Skull emojiiii
The third time I just say that I literally cannot understand what they are saying, and that usually works.
Cool story bro
When I read the title out loud in my head I read it as “the social agony of Mi-shearing people” and not “the social agony of mis-hearing people”
One time i was on a date with a girl and I told her I had a skylight in my room (window on the ceiling) but she thought I meant a nightlight but I didn’t realize at the time that she didn’t know what a skylight was. Never saw her again. She probably told all her friends that a grown man had a nightlight. I still think about that a lot
I once misheard a school janitor saying "The toilet's still clogged" and I stood there for a solid minute completely dumbfounded because I thought he said "The toilet's unplugged"
I have a really weird story to tell. I once came into the toilet room that belonged to my university. Then I saw that one of the toilet doors got stuck, so the person ended up being locked inside. She had her friend standing on the other side of the door (with us) trying to calm her down. Once we got help and the door was unlocked we discovered that the two "friends" never knew each other. Both of them falsely believed that the person standing on the other side of that door was someone they knew. Which was not the case. It was a very weird situation.
@@lizvtaz6 that’s a really weird story. What were their reactions when they realised this?
@@SG2048-meta it was a very awkward moment. Seemed like both of them were a bit shocked and did not what to say.
I will never forget that day in Spanish 1. My school had a foreign exchange student program and that year we had a really hot dude from Belgium that sat right next to me in that class. He spoke perfect Spanish so idk why he was in that class, but I remember he knew I had a crush on him and when it was time to partner with someone next to us, he would smile at me and speak perfect Spanish and for some reason the way he spoke and looked at me always made me flustered so often times I got distracted. This is one of those days where the teacher would speak Spanish and ask a si or no question and we had to reply to our partner or something, I can't quite remember. All I remember was staring into those beautiful blue eyes and hearing my teacher ask "Si or no?" To something and I just said "si" instead of no. The whole class grew silent and stared at me before bursting out laughing, includint my teacher. Apparently she asked the class if they thought Dr. Phil was "muy sexy" and I had said yes to that. I never lived that shit down till I graduated.
The other week my friend asked me something while she was eating a sandwich and I misheard her say "If my sandwich was a dinosaur what type of dinosaur would it be?" I confidently said "Brachiosaurus" and the poor girl just stared at me. I also never found out the original question. 🤷
if they are your friend you can ask them about it
I work as a house keeper in family hotel in germany. One day my boss asked me to work in the kitchen to help his wife during breakfast service since the usual worker is sick. I am an Auslander student so my german is not fluent. In the middle of the work, my boss' wife asked me "Willst du rauchen gehen?" which mean: "would you like to smoke?" Which i refuse since i don't smoke. Then she just said ok and go out of the kitchen to deliver the breakfast to the guests. After couple of seconds suddenly my brain starting to question like why would she asked me if i would like to smoke even during this busy hours? Then i realized what she actually said to me was "Willst du raus gehen?" Which mean: would you like to go/get out? which is a simplified sentence from "would you like to go out deliver this breakfast to the guest?". Upon realizing that i felt very guilty cus i literally refuse the order of my superior for no reason. After she came back to the kitchen i immediately apologize and explain my misunderstanding. Then she told her husband and they both just laugh at the hilarious situation. Thanks god they are good people.
2:05 the "and she was like hUH" kills me every time your voice is just perfect for this
“My coworker asked how my life is but I thought he asked how my leg is and I said “it only hurts when I pay attention to it”
I mean, it’s relatable and true either way
Edit: not to be that guy, but to be that guy, I somehow got 243 likes in 1 and a half days. thanks ig
Me irl.
When I was a kid, my extended family drew names for Christmas to choose who we'd buy presents for, and I drew my aunt's name. Well, one time she was asking all of us kids what we wanted for Christmas, but I wasn't paying attention, I was playing. So when I heard her call my name, I didn't hear "what do you want for Christmas" I heard "who did you get for Christmas," and so I scoffed and told her "I'm not telling YOU that." She looked hurt, and I didn't realize until I saw that SHE had MY name, that she was asking me what I wanted, not whose name I drew. I still feel mortified at being so rude about it lmao.
Did you guys straigthen it out or?
@@MCMIVC Not in so many words, but she realized that I didn't mean anything by it later on and never held it against me thankfully!
I'll never forget that time a friend of mine lost his passport while on holiday so we needed to go to the police to report it. We got in a cab and told the driver to take us to the nearest police station. Dude drives us around town for a while, then stops, gets out and tells us to follow him. He then led us into a store and pointed at a shelve with playstations on it.
I once misheard “trash” as mash” while my mom told me to take the trash out, so instead of taking the trash out, I removed all the mash from her Sunday dinner and threw it into the neighbour’s backyard. 💀
How did that turn out
TL/DR: Misheard my doctor's question after nearly fainting due to a needle.
When I was younger, I nearly fainted after a vaccine (I'm terribly afraid of needles). The doctor laid me down and made sure that I was alright.
Now, I speak Italian as a motherlanguage (southern Switzerland), so this might be a bit difficult to understand.
He asked me if I felt dizzy with "ti gira la testa?" (Does your head turn?) And I mistook it as "gira la testa" (turn your head). I promptly did it, as I thought he might have wanted to check something.
I then realised by the look on his face, and cringed greatly. Sometimes I still think about it and it's still somewhat annoying...
The brain: the self-declared most complex structure in the universe, and yet it still refuses to hear correctly and also constantly fixates on the times when it didn't
@@vermilisix truer words have never been spoken.
Omg! Im French and it’s the exact same expression, and I’ve done the exact same thing after getting my wisdom teeth out! I can’t believe it!
@@vermilisix So true, we hyperfixate on tiny mistakes and over not saying the right thing, even though realistically no one will judge you over it and they'll probably forget all about it the next day.
the horror on the doctor face
I once had this dude in my class on the day of exams ride past me on a bicycle, when I was waiting outside by myself. He's usually a chill dude, so when I heard him say "shouldn't have come, today (name)" in a deep voice I was concerned. Later that day I realized that he probably said "see you on Tuesday!"
but what if he really said that
@@risktaker1300LOL
When the plumber asked "d'ya mind if I use the bathroom" and I thought he said "D'ya If I show you the bathroom" thinking he wanted to me to see something in there, he gave me the dirtiest look when I tried to join.
One time I called the bank at my old job and when they were verifying me, he asked for the sixth letter of the security question "favourite fictional character" but I thought he said "what's the sex of your favourite fictional character" so I said, confused, "uhh female..?" and we were both lost
This answer is valid in relation to the internet
Oh man this is relatable. I seem to have inherited a hearing problem my mom has which causes us to *constantly* mishear things, which as you can imagine very frequently leads to awkward conversations. Only one I can remember off the top of my head right now is when I asked her if urine is sterile and she thought I asked if "Aaron is sterile". That was awkward.
Seems like the original conversation was awkward too 😂
@@gexatron69 What, you don't talk about the sterility of human waste with your parents?
Do you know anyone named Aaron or was it just a name she happened to hear?
@@MarbleSodaPop My brother-in-law is named Aaron, and he is in fact sterile. Made it all the more awkward.
Is urine sterile tho?
I was having a panic attack in spanish class once (situational mutism) and the visiting student from Mexico said something with “mejorar” in it (I guess “it’ll be okay” or something) and I thought she was asking my major so I said “matemática” and every time I think about this I want to actually die
I think I have something similar, it's ridiculous the amount of times I was unable to read anything out loud or do the speaking exercises in Spanish class
Even still, it's kinda funny to imagine someone going "it'll be okay" and just responding "math"
I just read "situational muslim" and well that was very intriguing for a few seconds
@@karlhendrikse have you read the magnus chase series? bc there's a character who could kinda fit that description
it'll be okay.
MATHEMATICS
@@aliciam6145 rly good series lol
My story on this subject is that I was a a restaurant with two of my friends and I ordered a brownie. She asked me if I was allergic to peanuts and I thought she said do you want peanuts so I responded with “I’m good” and my friends looked at me in silence for a moment
I once went out on a date with this guy I really liked and he asked me if I liked horror movies which I somehow misheard as ‘porn movies’ and just started elaborating on the topic💀💀
omg this is very similar to mine, I was with my cousin whose american (im from new zealand), and she was like "do you like horror movies" and I thought she said "whore movies" for like a solid 10 mins no matter how many times she repeated herself lmao
That reminds me when I was asking my American cousin for an eraser. In my English accent so she thought I was asking for a razor. So then I just used the English for eraser which is rubber to which she exclaimed horrified, “What do you want a condom for?!” 😂
Oh geez. I’ve got two. Both at a call center. I asked a lady her middle initial, she replied “y” so i said back, “because i’m required to ask it.” This went on 5 minutes before my idiot brain caught on.
The other was the guy calling about Ashleigh’s account. I asked his relation to Ashleigh, he replied, “I AM Ashleigh” with the most “i’m so fucking done with this name” tone i’ve ever heard.
your middle initial? [Y/n]
A couple weeks ago i was walking the dogs with my mom, she said something but since we were right next to busy traffic i couldn't hear her and just said "okay" or something....turns out she was asking the dogs if they wanted to sniff the fence we were walking next to and she just started memeing on me for it.
Just recently i went to go run some errands with her and i told her that i was able to smell smoke for some reason and she said "YOU'RE GONNA SMELL THAT BUT YOU WOULDN'T SNIFF THE FENCE?!?!?!"
🤣
3:40
Really said "Don't worry, I'll get you a new one sent out." Lmao what an akward coincidence💀
Matt, make a video on stupid things people believed as a kid. For example, I believed that the moon was a bloody stalker that would follow my family everywhere whenever we were in a vehicle.
I thought people get pregnant by telling the doctor how many children they want, and the doctor would extract both parents' DNA and inject the Baby Formula into the mother's stomach. All the way until I was 15. I was 14 when I learned Santa Claus was my Asian parents trying to do something White for their children and apparently my little brother already figured this out a year before I did. Yes, I did get called an "imaginative child" by my teachers when I was younger.
Lol same, though for me it was the sun
another thing that falls under this would be white lies our parents told us as children ex. it being illegal to have the light on in the car while driving, swallowing gum will kill you, there is no faceless man in the kitchen window, etc..
I thought elbow grease was a real product that you could buy in the store and rub on your elbows to help you work better. I was well into my teens before I discovered that it was just a figure of speech.
Conversely, I thought that "douche bag" was just a figure of speech all the way until the age of 22 when I saw that South Park episode and learned it was a feminine hygiene product.
@@bonecanoe86 ....I was today years old when I learned that a douche bag is not just a figure of speech. Coincidentally enough, also age 22.
My friend was telling me a story and she said "I was waiting at the bus stop" but I somehow heard "I did cocaine at the bus stop". It's been an inside joke ever since
I used to participate in a girl group in highschool during recess and we did various activities and ate lunch together. A girl in the group who was sitting beside me asked ''could you pass me the butter?'', I couldn't hear anything because there was loud talking so I thought she said ''Did you also want butter?'' and I said ''no'' and she looked at me confused and disgusted. I'm literally so deaf I can't skullemoji
I'm late to the party but I've got 2:
1. Once I had to confirm my personal details over the phone to a guy with an Italian accent. I confirmed my phone number and then he said 'is it Laura?' (Which is my name) but Laura in an Italian accent sounds like 'louder' .. so I thought he wanted me to speak louder and proceeded to repeat my phone number louder, to which he said 'Laura?' again and I repeated it even louder. The cycle went on for about 5 minutes until I was practically screaming down the phone before he just gave up with me
2. A hairdresser once asked what I was up to that weekend to which I told her I was going to a bbq. Later she asked where my parting was but I thought she said 'party' so I said 'oh it's a few miles away'. And she just stared at me and gave me the most condescending look of my life
"I'm getting divorced."
"YOO THATS SICK" 💀
One time my brother asked my dad "Why are we parking on the side of the road" and my dad thought he said "Are we parking on the side of the road" so he replied with "yes" 💀💀💀
Valid
Also my Dad would do the same even if he heard right
Once when I was about 4 or 5 me and my parents were in Scotland and since English was a new language to us we still didn’t understand much and especially with a Scottish accent it was even harder so I was in nursery my mum was coming to pick me up when a woman walked past her and went “WOOF” and in a panic my mum just went “WOOF” back and the woman just smiled and walked away. Turns out we think she was saying mornin in a really scotish accent and we couldn’t understand it💀🤚 btw were from Italy
If it’s any consolation I’m English & I can’t understand Scottish people AT ALL.
@@reneerosie haha I think even some Scottish people can’t understand Scottish people tbh 😂
The best part is these people heard something wrong and completely off the wall but are so quick to go along with it without question like “idk why my bank is asking about drones but if you insist-“
And now, every dad’s favourite joke:
“Windy, isn’t it?”
“No, it’s Thursday!”
“Oh yeah, so am I, let’s go to the pub!”
One time I was on the phone to make an appointment at the doctors, I thought the lady randomly asked "what time did you go to bed?" Turns out they just asked when I wanted my appointment. I repeated what I thought I heard out loud without thinking because I was confused, they just laughed and repeated what they said. Luckily I heard it the second time. The appointment was about my hearing lol.
1:55 the voice acting is top tier
This video struck me as especially hilarious because I have something called general auditory disorder. In effect I constantly and consistently misunderstand what words people say, as if everyone around me is speaking Simlish. And it has nothing to do with volume either; you can be super loud or super quiet and I have as good a chance of understanding you either way. Which doesn't prevent most people from shouting in my face...
It's resulted in so many misunderstandings I now as an adult have a habit of repeating anything important back to ensure I heard correctly. Some people find it irritating but it's better that than me screwing something up because I misheard you.
Man this reminds me of one time when I was talking with a neighbor and he was telling me a story. I didn't understand a single word he said and just nodded along and did a small laugh or smile here and there to try to at least make it seem like something was getting through, only for him to end up asking me if I heard any of what he said to which I told him no. He then told me the story again, which I WAS able to understand, and boy. It was NOT a story you should smile and nod along to aimlessly. Ended up being about a tragic accident his friend was in years before.
good thing you said no, it would be terrifying if you said you heard the whole story
😨
Finally, another question I can answer. My friend asked "what's the answer to this?" But I heard "what's the Anthony to this?" So I said back to her "why are you talking about Anthony? Do you like him?" Just as the guy called Anthony walked past our desk. Another was when a doctor told me to lift up my shirt so he could listen to my breathing but I heard "life your shirt please" and I just stared at him until he repeated himself 💀
💀
ALSO FLUTTERSHY PFP I LOVE ITTT
Are your friend and Anthony together now tho
3:18 I actually work at a Chick-fil-A, the amount of times I've asked people for their name and they start giving me thier order bro. I know darn well your name isn't "Number one with medium fries, medium coke and 3 Chick-fil-A sauce packets".
1:28
Well that’s one way to “boost” self confidence
I work at a library. Last week a woman called and asked if we had law books. But I, of course, heard her ask if we had *all* books. I replied "We have a lot of books, but we don't have every book in existence." Gave my friend a good laugh, though.
Man, I can't recall how many times I've watched your videos with my friends and literally choked from laughing. *My friends are very concerned...* Great video!
The "this is Danielle" one literally knocked me out of my chair, I tried laughing with no air in my lungs
I have bronchitis right now, went through the 5 stages of grief
Chuckled, laughed, it turned into coughs, got worse, chocked, started gagging, almost threw up
@@zagnose aw man, I'm really sorry to hear that! I hope your bronchitis gets cured soon, That must be really painful. I wish you well!
@@MattoxDA Why tf did i read "cured" as "cursed"
One time I was playing codenames with my family and my mom was the codemaster and she gave the word “veterinarian” but I heard “veteran” so I was like “Oh, so then the word ‘army’ would apply then right?” Everyone looked at me like I was an absolute idiot.
this happened to me
So i moved to a country where there is a definite accent difference from where I am from
And I join this school
This boy sees me and he says “hiya”
(The H isn’t pronounced)
There is an “Iya” in our class
So I go, “ that’s not my name”
He repeats 5 times until he says “ I was saying hiya”
I die inside every time i think about it
I always mishear people for example. My friend said that his hands hurt and I exclaimed at him with the most confused voice saying "You have a (woman's private part)? " or another time where another of my friend said that their mother was frying something and I replied saying "oh sorry for your loss." She took a moment to comprehend what I said and was like "no my mother's not dead she's frying something, your ears need help"
Which word for "vаgіna" sounds like "hands"?
@@Keznen I've been rereading this comment for ages and losing my mind trying to figure it out.
@@Keznen Maybe the conversation was in a different language and OP was translating?
@@abbiereynolds8016 Maybe.
@@Keznen vagina > pussy > paws > hands???????????????????? or maybe he heard "my [inaudible] hurt" and filled in the blank, or some combination of hand and hurt
As somebody always afraid of being misheard, it's therapeutic hearing about how the other way around is just as bad.
This happened a few months ago. However before I begin I’d like to say, problems with hearing run in my family, so this shit happens a lot and I could literally fill a book with all the times I’ve miss heard someone, but I’ll just say the most embarrassing and recent.
So I was at school and my friend who I flirt back and forth with said something, it was like, “Maybe you could be mine?~” and I misheard that as “maybe you could use mine” so I said “no- well maybe” (we let each other use our notes or something in case we forget ours, so I thought that’s what he meant) and he was like “what wait really” and I was confused “huh- wait what did you say” he didn’t tell me, but I kept thinking back and realized what he said finally and I was so close to screaming for multiple reasons.
From a person who mishears everything, i feel more than social agony at this point.
I once misheard the lyrics to the song in Peter Pan called you can fly you can fly you can fly instead of hearing "take the path that moonbeams make" I heard "think of Batman pooping snakes" 💀
🤣
NOOOOOOO. Oh, that's amazing, though.
basically stevie t
Sometimes our body parts just suddenly betray us like this, even our ears aren't trustworthy anymore.
True
Come again? I didn't heard you
Why are you everywhere?
@@Jackson_Assault because bot
Huh? Eyes?
You said ears but i thought you said eyes
OMGGJJGGJGH
Years ago I was walking on the street talking to my aunt on my cellphone. She has lots of dental problems and I jokingly said “if only you had teeth on your tongue.” This woman walking beside me looked at me and said “I know right?” No idea what she thought I said but it still cracks me up.
I get the confusion at 1:00 because as a nearsighted person I have been told to walk around the optician's before (they tell you to check if the floor's lines are warping or not to make sure they fixed your astigmatism) and look around 😭😭
Last winter my coworker had to leave work early bc her grandma lost her heat. I thought she said "my mawmaw lost her teeth", so I said in all seriousness 'Oh its not that bad, she can live without her teeth for a few hours, she has dentures yeah?"
She and two other folks laughed hysterically, mostly bc my reply was so earnest.
I once went into Lidl to ask for a job, so I went to the first member of staff I saw and said “have you got any jobs here?”… she looked at me like I was some complete lunatic and said “ummm.. I’ll just go and get my manager”, the manager eventually walked over, looking equally confused and I asked him the same question “do you have any jobs here?”
He stared at me for a second and then said “OHHH so you’re not looking for dogs?” 💀
0:40-I have such a similar story.
I was in my Humanities Class 2 weeks ago and my peer and teacher were having a small argument of either she or my teacher's 2nd grade daughter would win a fight. My dumbass didn't hear right so I asked him (my teacher), "what kind?" He looked at me in so much confusion so I figured he didn't hear me the first time so I asked again but this time I said, "what kind of dog is it?"
May I mention he has blue ish green eyes so he was practically staring into my soul and he slowly said.
"D a u g h t e r.... I thought you were the nice one. My daughter is *not* a dog."
Needless to say, I could not stop apologizing for the rest of the time in his class. Oh how horrible it was considering the fact I burst out laughing after he had said that to the point where there were tears in my eyes. I'm definitely failing his class.
"My Grandma had 6 jokes(strokes)"
"So she has 6 children and doesn't like any of them?"
"What? No just my mom and she loves her. I said STROKES."
"😮 My bad."
Matt's videos have become such a part of my routine that I didn't even read the title and got confused when the video started
Reminds me of what my dad says "When handing out brains, your mum thought they said trains, and asked for a slow one"
I honestly don't think i'd laugh as much at these videos if it wasn't you voicing them, you just sound so happy and chaotic, and i can't help but laugh.
You'd be the best voice actor ever ❤️
This is why I usually ask people to repeat questions even when I’m 90% sure I know what they said
I was so angry about a news story and I’m laughing so hard it literally hurts. Matt is a treasure
What story?
I also want to know the story
We need the story
The news story was about underage FLDS girls being transported in a storage trailer most likely to be forced into marriage in a secret location. The arrested the “prophet” in Arizona I believe. One of the girls was 11 and I was absolutely livid. Now I’m mad all over again so I have to rewatch this video!
@@Blisscent 😨 Nevermind I didn't want the story.. 😓