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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 604709" data-attributes="member: 2205">Once, when I didn't speak Spanish very well yet, I went to play some games with some friends of mine.  I had biked over, and it had been a very windy day, and my hair was flying every which way.  One of the gals there started laughing at my flyaway hair, and I told her that I had left my comb at home, so I was stuck with it.  Or at least I thought that's what I said.  The word for comb is peine and the word I said was pene which sounds very, very similar, and which I don't think I can translate on the boards (little dracula works well, though, from the story above!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)  The thought of me having left that at home was, of course, riotously funny to everyone but myself, who couldn't figure out what was going on until somebody recovered enough to tell me.I also had a ripped pants episode -- all the guys had just got home from something where we were dressed up, and we were settling in to play.  I hadn't thought to bring clothes to change into, but the host graciously offered me some sweats to wear while we played, since playing in a suit and tie didn't really excite me much.  He gave me his old undergrad Purdue sweats, which, unknown to me, had a fairly largish hole in the left leg.  Whilst putting on the sweats, I rather predictably stuck my foot in that hole, turning it into a monstrous rent that had me almost entirely flapping in the breeze all night.</blockquote>

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