One innocent text sends a mother straight into a glorious misunderstanding. She only wants to decode her son\u2019s abbreviations, but his perfectly accurate reply sets up a punchline he never sees coming. Then a bedtime story, a dentist\u2019s bill, and an expensive hearing aid prove just how quickly everyday confidence can collapse with one small but completely unexpected answ\u2026 Continues\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A mother texts her son: \u201cWhat does IDK, LY, & TTYL mean?\u201d He answers, \u201cI don\u2019t know, love you, and talk to you later.\u201d She replies, \u201cIt\u2019s okay, don\u2019t worry. I\u2019ll ask your sister. Love you too.\u201d He\u2019s translated everything correctly\u2014and explained absolutely nothing. Another parent\u2019s efforts go sideways at bedtime: after a father spends two hours telling stories, his wife approaches the quiet room. \u201cIs he asleep, dear?\u201d she whispers. \u201cYes, Mommy,\u201d answers their very awake son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, a mother discovers that her boy\u2019s tooth extraction costs $100 instead of the promised $20. The dentist explains that the child yelled so loudly, four other patients fled the office. Then there\u2019s the man proudly showing off his $3,000 hearing aid, declaring it the best he\u2019s ever owned. His friend asks, \u201cWhat kind is it?\u201d The delighted answer: \u201cHalf past four!\u201d In these little jokes, the explanations are often funnier than the problems.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One innocent text sends a mother straight into a glorious misunderstanding. She only wants to decode her son\u2019s abbreviations, but his perfectly accurate reply sets up a… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nykmedia.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nykmedia.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nykmedia.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykmedia.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykmedia.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nykmedia.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17026,"href":"https:\/\/nykmedia.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17025\/revisions\/17026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykmedia.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nykmedia.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykmedia.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykmedia.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}