Times you forgot a word and said something stupid instead

Here's some of mine:

• When I was little, I didn't know what a street lamp was called, so I called it a "goldie" (due to its gold light.)
• I once forgot the word "beaker", so I called it a "science cup".
• My mother once forgot the word "exterminator", so she said, "ant-buster".

I once forgot the word "technician", so I said "computer fixers" instead.

I'm very prone to just resorting to "that thingy!" when I can't think of what something is called.

One of the weirdest for me is that when I was little, I thought Goombas from Super Mario Bros. were called "minkies". I don't have any idea why.

I also saw a snow leopard at the zoo and for whatever reason called them "hazard lions" for a while.

This story is hilarious and embarrassing at the same time. When I was about ten, I spoke with a therapist for the first time. I asked if she had kids and she was like, "Why do you need to know?" I assumed this meant she had none (as it turns out, she had two), and I didn't know the term "getting your tubes tied", so I asked, "Are you neutered?" She was quite amused and puzzled at the same time.

Early one morning at one of my old jobs the touch screen on the cash register wasn't responding properly - I ended up asking my boss if anything was wrong with "the finger machine".

As a child I would say "froggy" instead of "foggy", and for a while I thought there was some kind of connection between frogs and fog - like frogs came out in foggy weather or something. Similarly my younger sister liked going on elevators, but would call them alligators.

Edited by MikeK on Jul 17th 2023 at 1:53:20 AM

When I was a small child, I'd often mispronounce the word "squat" as "squawk" for some reason.

One time when I think I was in Grade 2, I accidentally peed on the floor of my half bath. While talking with my mom about it, I referred to the pee as "water" due to being emotionally overwhelmed or something. My mom replied, "That ain't water." We then had an argument about the word "ain't". (My teacher read the "Don't Say Ain't" poem to the class, which made me think of it as a "bad word" along the lines of "stupid" and "shut up".)

A couple months ago, I was trying to tell my mom that I was going to bring in the garbage/recycling bins, but I forgot what I was saying mid-sentence and ended up saying something along the lines of "I'm gonna go get the deh. The deh. Deh da deh deh deh" for an awkwardly long amount of time before I was finally able to find the words I was looking for.