I'm here to entertain. That is all.

So you know when someone says something and you misunderstand what they say?

The other day two friends and I were walking through the Smithsonian Natural History Museum Mineral collection. One of them is discussing a family member's ownership of a gold mine.

She says, "my family had stake in a gold mine."

I, however, did not hear this.

I heard, " my family had steak in a gold mine."

So I say, "Oh, cool. Is that like a tourist thing?"

She responds somewhat perplexed, "umm, no. They owned part of a gold mine."

"Oh, I thought you meant they ate steak in a gold mine."

My second friend... walks away for a moment in disbelief.

Sometimes I am inadvertently ditsy.