When did I ever say that?
By TLChimes
@TLChimes (4822)
United States
February 22, 2009 6:06pm CST
Did you ever hear from someone that you said something and then wonder "when did I ever say that?" Is it that people really miss the point or are they just wanting to poke at you?
Have you said something and have someone tell others how you said something way different?
I have wondered if it's how you use your words or the person who isn't hearing you.
I was once accused of saying something against someone and I had never said anything of the sort. There was no defending myself so it got to the point that a friendship was lost. It didn't matter how I tried to re-word it. It just didn't matter.
Then more recently, a set of posts and even the replies were thought to imply one way of thinking that I just didn't see.
So is it the speaker or the listener?
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3 responses
@sanuanu (11235)
• India
23 Feb 09
A famous quote is that your mistakes are more open that anything else.
If you do a mistake people can see it easily and they will have a point to say against you. Most of them enjoy it.
It has happened with me more than once because I have a tendency of thinking after leaping, so, sometimes I get into trouble but I can deword things easily. That is my speciality!
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
23 Feb 09
In my childhood people use to make jokes about my comments and then on I found a way to deword me because I can't keep silent and speak all the time. If I would speak that much then I will have to make mistakes.
Nah, life is not going well for me. I am not graduate and with no jobs at all.
I am looking to make moeny from internet and the person who used to give me jobs is now not giving me anything. So, difficult.
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@TLChimes (4822)
• United States
23 Feb 09
Sorry to hear that... I will hope for you a bit of work. I look for work on line because my little ones need me home and at their therapies so a "job" isn't something I can do. So I know it can be tough.
Chin up and I will hold you in my thoughts.
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
25 Feb 09
i think some people just read or twist things out of no where.. i have a brother that claims we did this and i said that and i wasnt even in the same STATE during that time so either his time is wrong or something and even if it was at a time i was around i dont remember ANY of it! he swears i went after thanksgiving shopping with him and knocked out a lady when i never have gone after thanksgiving shopping with him much less assault anyone!
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@TLChimes (4822)
• United States
25 Feb 09
LOL your brother and my mother should meet.
My dad once said he would go to a party with her and then the next day she would be telling someone about it and he'd be thinking "where was I when that happened"
It's been like that my whole life. I just thought it was a mental issue .... hmmm... maybe it's wider spread then I thought.
Thanks for stopping in!!!!!
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@reckon21 (3477)
• Philippines
22 Jun 10
I think it really depends how you say the statement and it also entirely depend on the receivers of the words. Sometimes we say the words in different meaning yet other people who hear it interpret it differently and tell it to others ending you the bad one. Sometimes the listeners do that to inflict some negative image in you.
But then we must be also be careful with the way we spoke things out there. Because even do we say it positively somebody would like to have fun twisting the words to make you look bad to others. Sometimes people are cruel for no definite reason at all.
