A Bit Of Friday Workshop 314

Have you had a moment recently where you thought, "Oh no, I really messed up!"? If so, mind sharing?

最近、「やっちまったなあ」と言うことはありましたか？あったら、シェアしてください。

Speaker 4:

Okay, so here's our ultimate “we messed up big time” story.

My husband wears a hearing aid. One day, he came down with a nasty cold — and I mean *nasty*. He was blowing his nose non-stop, tissue after tissue. And instead of throwing them away properly, he just started piling them up on the table. Gross, right?

Well, at some point, he took off his hearing aid and left it on the table. But then, without realizing, he kept tossing used tissues on top of it. He completely forgot the hearing aid was even there.

Then *I* came along, saw this disgusting mountain of used tissues, and thought,

“Ugh, what is this mess?!”

So, naturally, I grabbed the whole pile — no questions asked — and dumped it straight in the trash bin. And just to be a responsible adult, I took the garbage down to the condo's collection area.

Perfect timing, of course — the garbage truck showed up that day and off it went… all the way to the city incinerator.

Later, we were looking for the hearing aid and suddenly it hit us.

That’s when the horror set in.

Yep — we’d thrown it away. Or more accurately, we had it *professionally incinerated*.

We were speechless. It had only been a month since he bought it, and it cost nearly 500,000 yen!

Total panic.

But! There was a tiny light at the end of the tunnel — the hearing aid was still under warranty. So, unbelievably, he was able to get a replacement.

He was SO lucky.

And that, my friends, is our “we really messed up” moment.

。。。とまぁ、AIの力を借りるとここまで英語ネイティブが書いた話みたいになります。　笑

ワークショップ中は、もちろんこんな風に英語を操れません。😅

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Do you ever go back and read notes you wrote for studying?

勉強のために書き留めておいたノートを見返すことはありますか？

How confident are you in your ability to stand on one foot with your eyes closed?

目をつぶって片足立ちをすることに自信はありますか？

Have you ever worn your clothes backwards or inside out and didn’t notice for a while?

洋服を前後、あるいは裏返しで着てしまい、しばらく気づかなかったことはありますか？

When changing out of your pajamas, do you start with the top or the bottom?

パジャマから洋服に着替える時、上から着替えますか、ボトムから着替えますか？

Is there a celebrity or public figure you randomly wonder, “I wonder how they’re doing these days?”

あの人最近どうしているんだろうとふと思う芸能人、有名人はいますか？