June is Effective Communication Month so, to celebrate, Art of Eloquence is hosting a contest here on the blog where you could win free Art of Eloquence studies of YOUR CHOICE! Here’s how it works:
CONTEST RULES/HOW TO ENTER:
1. Submit a family-friendly, funny or sweet story of miscommunication. The story could have happened to you in “real life,” you could have heard about it happening to someone else OR you could write one out of your own imagination. It can be funny like a Foot in Mouth Man episode or a sweet and inspirational story. Preferably just a few sentences or a paragraph, but there is no limit to the length if it’s a good story.
2. Post them here as a comment on this blog post making sure to leave a valid email address and name so we can contact the winners at the end of the contest.
3. Enter as often as you like, but each entry (a different miscommunication story) must be posted in a separate comment!
4. At the end of the month, I’ll post a few of the best stories of miscommunication and ask my readers to vote for their favorite in each of the two categories: Fun and Sweet.
5. It is understood that submissions may be used in future Art of Eloquence marketing.
WHAT YOU CAN WIN:
1. Winners will receive a free Art of Eloquence product of their own choosing!
2. The more entries we have, the more winners we will choose so please pass along the link to this blog post and ask others to enter!
NOTE: Contest is now closed. No more entries will be accepted. We will be asking our readers to vote on the winners in the next few days!
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Oooooh, looks like fun! I’ll have to think on this one. I’ve shot my big mouth off so many times without thinking, I could give FIMM a run for his money! ROFLOL
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Pass it around. The more entries we have the more winners we’ll have!
I was chatting on the phone with my sister. She had said that for her daughter’s birthday she wanted one of our kittens. I knew which kitten my niece liked so I told my sister “The kitten she likes is a female.” My daughter (who was 4 at the time) said “But Mom, we don’t do females we only do e-mails.
One afternoon I was trying to convince my young daughter the importance of drinking lots of water….she asked: Why? I replied …because it’s good for your kidneys. She then asked, very seriously, but Mom what about your adult knees?
I started cracking up and left the conversation…. :0)
My youngest was telling me a joke about what a red neck calls a no eyed deer, then he gave the punch line I have no I deer. I started cracking up then he said, but I don’t get it. I said so you have no I deer, he got it.
A few years ago, when our son was six, we were renting a house, and had a very good relationship with our landlord and his wife, Lorraine. (She made homemade donuts for us and things like that.) The time had come that we had to move to a new location. When I gave thanks to the Lord for the food at my meal with the children one day, I also prayed that the Lord would help us with the moving process “by keeping the rain away.” Amen. My son asked,”Why did you pray to keep Lorraine away?” I was glad to clear up that misunderstanding on the spot!
Our son received a Dairy Queen Coupon for a “FREE CONE” while attending a local Vacation Bible School Program. Excited to get something free, he wanted to visit the Ice Cream Parlor on the way home from VBS. While leaving the church parking lot, I hear his inquiring, but serious tone from the back seat of the car. “Mom, Is the coupon just for the cone?
Some of my fondest memories of my children come from their mispronunciation of words during their young years. My oldest loved the movie Pinocchio with who see called Jimminy Cickit. My middle child with point to the sky and talk about the clowns, I thought he saw an image of a clown however, he was trying to say clouds. My youngest started playing video games way to young and would say “I have three wives,” instead of lives. Gotta love ’em.
One day we were out at the baseball fields watching my husband play mens modified softball. My 6 yr old was sitting on my lap. We were talking about how odd it was for him and his older brother to be done with their ball seasonsand how its daddys turn to play ball now. I then proceeded to tell him “its in his genes ” to play ball…he got quiet then turned around with a puzzled look on his face..then with a straight face replied “But mom…dad and I aren’t even wearing the same type of pants”……needless to say everyone around us busted out in laughter!..
My daughters LOVE the “BAM” man as they called him. Emeril the chef. One night, my 8 year old daughter was over hearing a conversation between my husband and myself as to where we should plan our next family vacation. I thought it would be awesome to take them to a taping of his show. I said “Oh I know where we should go! The kids will just die! We should go…” and then my daughter was screaming hysterically. When we finally calmed her down, we realized she literally thought we were going to take the kids somewhere to die. We read a LOT of Amelia Bedilia books after that! 😀