naivete
n : lack of sophistication or worldlinessSo yesterday I stuck my foot in my mouth. Unwittingly, but I think that's why the phrase is coined that way. Never once have I intentionally stuck my foot in my mouth.
Boy o boy, I sure did yesterday. I'm not up on slang words. Sure I've got my goofy off the wall comments. (That burnt the hair off my tongue, let's blow this popsicle stand, etc.) Harmless, quirky, a little dumb, but fit my personality. But yesterday I made a t-shirt design that had a slang word in it that apparently has some deeper meaning for guys than it does for girls. The girls loved the idea of the shirt, and the guys just laughed. I thought the guys were laughing at the same thing the girls were laughing at. O no, nope. Nada. The guys were laughing at something completely different.
One guy had enough mercy to tell me what the guys were laughing at. He emailed me about it and just reading it I could tell he was embarrassed writing it. Heck, I was embarrassed reading it. So after a whole lot of confusion and embarrassment on everybody's part, I apologized profusely to anyone I could whom I'd shown or told about the t-shirt design.
After all this I was still upset. I felt like I should have known better. And then my guy friends were laughing at me and my naivete. I like a joke just like everyone else, Lord knows, I'm a big dork and I'm certainly not perfect so I get plenty of opportunity to laugh at myself. But I guess it just reminded me of how much I don't know about carnal nature and that somehow I should just know about this stuff.
So what does a girl do when she doesn't understand something? She calls her father. And that's exactly what I did. I told him the whole story start to finish. And he said he was proud of me for not knowing what the word could mean. And its a good thing that my mind doesn't immediately jump to the worst connotation of a word. He said there's nothing wrong with being innocent.
Later that night I was talking to my other Father. I thanked Him for me not knowing everything there is to know about certain things. Sure, I felt like an idiot, but I'd rather have a pure heart and mind. You'd think I'd want to know it all, but alas, 'tis not the case.
After all this I was still upset. I felt like I should have known better. And then my guy friends were laughing at me and my naivete. I like a joke just like everyone else, Lord knows, I'm a big dork and I'm certainly not perfect so I get plenty of opportunity to laugh at myself. But I guess it just reminded me of how much I don't know about carnal nature and that somehow I should just know about this stuff.
So what does a girl do when she doesn't understand something? She calls her father. And that's exactly what I did. I told him the whole story start to finish. And he said he was proud of me for not knowing what the word could mean. And its a good thing that my mind doesn't immediately jump to the worst connotation of a word. He said there's nothing wrong with being innocent.
Later that night I was talking to my other Father. I thanked Him for me not knowing everything there is to know about certain things. Sure, I felt like an idiot, but I'd rather have a pure heart and mind. You'd think I'd want to know it all, but alas, 'tis not the case.
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