My Freudian Slip at Work
Monday October 9, 2006
Last week at the office, I made a freudian slip during a staff meeting. The meeting had gone on for more than an hour and a half, and I was getting very tired and hungry (watching an interpreter for that long will do that to you). The interpreter herself was exhausted. When it was finally my turn to make a report, I said I would make my report short and sweet because we were hungry for lunch. Then, as part of my report, I accidentially signed "soup" (probably because I was thinking of food) instead of fingerspelling the name of something. The interpreter burst out laughing, and had to tell everyone why she was laughing so hard.
Have you ever had a sign language freudian slip of your own? I have blogged before about an interpreter's freudian slip, but this is the first time I am blogging about a deaf person (me) having a freudian slip.
Comments
What did you intend to say instead of soup? I know a friend who is researching for that kind of mishaps (I once signed “garden sale” instead of “garage sale”) so if you don’t mind telling me what word you were aiming for so he can add it to his list to see a pattern.
thanks!
As it is with anyone who works in an office and deals with networks, they’ll be dealing with supernets, internets, intranets, that sort of thing. So, it was only logical that when hunger struck, she said/signed ’soup’-ernet. Great way to bring down the house and break up the meeting for lunch.