Tonight at FHE, (Family Home Evening) we had someone tell us about serving as a missionary in Brazil. He passed around some souvenirs he had brought back. Among them were Brazilian banknotes. They're quite pretty. They were handed to me sideways and for some strange reason it didn't register that the backside of the notes are oriented to the vertical. So when I looked at the 10 Reais note, I didn't orient it properly. I couldn't figure out what the animal was: I decided it must be some type of fish, but couldn't figure out what fish because it didn't look right.
A friend was sitting on the edge of my chair so I poked her and said, "What kind of fish is this?" She looked at it and said, "I see the fish eye but the body is weird. I have no idea."
We continued staring at it together, still in the horizontal orientation, and at the same time realized, "It's a parrot!"
Another friend was sitting next to us, watching the two of us stare at this piece of paper, totally entertained/appalled that we thought it was a fish. The three of us were laughing so hard at our belief that the parrot was a fish, we were disrupting everyone around us. People were staring as we were falling over each other trying not to laugh out loud at our own mistake. For the rest of the night, if anyone said parrot--which happened a lot--we would start laughing all over again. It was funny!
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