Embarrassed because I had never heard an expression before

by Lady Lee 101 Replies latest members adult

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  Lady Lee

  As JWs we were pretty isolated. There were a lot of things I didn't know about the larger world; a lot of expressions I had never heard. The one that probably embarrassed me the most was:

  when the shit hit the fan

  I was in a business meeting and I was definitely low man on the totem pole. Well my boss used the expression and my head went into a pretty vivid image of this happening and I could not stop laughing. After trying to stop I finally had to get up and leave. No one mentioned it to me later so I have no idea what the other thought but I hope they were glad I got up and left.

  I never led a double life as a JW. I stayed home to rais ethe children so had very little contact outside the JWs. So I had a lot to learn when I left.

  I know there were other things but that was the worst for me.

  So are there things you didn't know? Wished you had known? Embarrassed the hell out of you?
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  Elsewhere

  > So are there things you didn't know?

  Yes... as it turns out, women actually DO like sex!
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  St George of England

  Poor social skills due to only mixing with JW's as per instructions.

  George
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  serenitynow!

  People used to ask me if I liked to party. I would always say, "sure!" because, you know I like going to parties as much as the next girl. Of course as a JW I always came off as being very straight laced, so the person would always be like "really?!!" It wasn't until recently that I learned that that expression means do you get high!
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  palmtree67

  One time I set a coffee and muffin down in a room full of construction workers and as I left to get my equipment I said, "Nobody eat my muffin."

  Turns out it means something different than "please don't eat my baked goods."
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  Robdar

  Lady Lee,

  When you said you saw a vivid image of the shit hitting the fan, I burst out laughing. What a great story!

  When I first left the org, almost everything embarrassed me. I had lived such a sheltered life that my embarrassment went on for years. But, I guess the expression that embarrassed me the most, because it was one of the first, was told to me in joke form:

  Q: Why did the Americans win the Revolutionary War?

  A: Because the British were coming.

  It took me 2 weeks to get that joke. When I did, I burst out laughing so loud that my upstairs neighbor, who had told me the joke, heard me laughing. It would have taken even longer to get the joke had I not just gotten married and started becoming acquainted with sex and some of the terms used to describe it.
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  Think About It

  This one caught me off guard first time I heard it.

  "If she's old enough to go to the store, she's old enough to get bred."

  Think About It
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  slimboyfat

  Call me sheltered too. I had never heard that expression either Lady Lee until I started reading the 'evil' Internet.
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  rockmehardplace

  palmtree67 - that is the funniest thing i have ever heard.
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  Mickey mouse

  That really made me laugh Lady Lee!