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i tried to return a woman’s dropped cash and she thought i was offering to pay her for sleeping with her

this happened today and i feel weird about it i was walking to the gym and the woman in front of me dropped some cash. like iit fall out of her pocket and she didn’t not notice. i picked it up and jogged a bit to catch up, waving it she turns around, seas the money in my hand, and her face just changes and goes “what the hell is this?” she literally says something like “are you trying to pay me to sleep with you?” loud enough that people looked over. before I could tell her that she dropped it. my brain just froze. i was like no you dropped it im giving it back. i held it out and she snatched it and walked off like i was the creep. i stood there feeling embarrassed as hell for5 minutes
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“The Mirror That Took My Place”

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Today I learned “hang up” does NOT mean what I thought it meant

Today in my English lesson we had this question: “How do you keep going and not \_\_\_?” The story was about a man with cancer, and his friend asking why he keeps fighting instead of giving up. The options were: A. get through B. back off C. break out D. hang up I didn’t really know the phrasal verbs, but I assumed the blank had to be something negative. Then I saw “hang up” and somehow my brain interpreted it as “hang himself.” 💀 So I confidently chose D. Which basically turned the sentence in my head into: “Why are you still alive when you’re sick? Just hang yourself already.” My teacher looked at my answer and immediately started laughing 😭 Meanwhile I was just sitting there slowly realizing what I had done. I may have accidentally turned an inspirational cancer story into the darkest sentence possible. Anyway… I guess it’s finally time for me to start studying phrasal verbs 😅