I have no idea how I forgot to type this out with our other Awkward Moments, but how is this for one?
Chuck ( the church campout): Adalia, why don’t you slip off your thongs before you go in the trailer?
Adalia, speechless in her shock and horror.
Chuck: Oops, I mean flip-flops.
When Apollo was having his surgery in tx you mentioned a lady whose husband was in the military. She had a blog, which I started to follow, but along the way stopped. You posted a prayer request for a woman whose child had hurt their head and I am wondering if this is the same lady. If you could let me know what her blog site is I would greatly appreciate it. I would like to find out what is going on with her life now.
Thank you
Mayrlynn- yes, it was the same woman. Her blog is: Abigail’s Day.
Snort. Generation gaps at their finest!
Oh my word, my husband does this! It drives me NUTS!! 🙂 When he says “thongs,” I KNOW he means flip-flops…but I simply cannot get the mental image of the…you know…other kind of thongs out of my head! 😉
Is Thongs a Canadian thing or an older people thing? We call them thongs here in Australia and i thought we were the only place that did.
I grew up in the northwest (USA) calling them thongs. I don’t think they were called flip flops till high school in the 90’s.
My husband is from California, and he calls them thongs…so I don’t think it’s limited geographically. 🙂
Thongs or Zorries, that’s what we called them when I was a kid. A long time ago, in a galaxy far…oh that’s another blog. Sorry.
That is sooo Australian’of him, Ben would have called them jandles 🙂
Several years ago our pastor made the very same mistake in front of the congregation. His daughter, in the front row, was mortified but the rest of us got a good laugh out of it.
They were always called thongs when I was a kid. It wasn’t until we moved to California that I began to hear them called flip flogs… and thongs called underwear. Weird.
I used to use a pregnancy forum and there was a thread where people were listing what they had packed to take to hospital for labour/after they’d given birth. One woman had ‘thongs’ on her list and I remember thinking that I couldn’t think of anything I’d was less likely to want just after having a baby! It came to light that she was Australian and meant flip flops 😀
Oh my gosh, this is the funniest ever!
Dying over here. I’m Canadian and call them thongs too. My husband — born and bred Californian, with the maturity of a 7 year old boy in a toilet factory — has a fit of laughter every time I say it.