A couple of years ago my parents moved out to the Island. There were a couple of months between when they moved out there an when I was planning on visiting them, and during that time we phoned each other regularly.
Every time I spoke with my mom, she was telling me about all the great things I just had to see and do when I went out there, all the places we had to eat at. And, she was supper excited about the fresh fish, particularly a new type she had seen advertised but never tried, the inat fish. Apparently, there was a sign my parents drove by regularly that advertised what fish would be for sale when the boats came in and inat was always listed, and it was only five dollars a pound.
That summer I finally made it out to the Island. The second day I was there we drove by the fish sign I had heard so much about, and there it was, inat. Only when I looked at the sign, I didn't see what my mom saw. Instead of inat fish for sale for five dollars, I read it as "In At 5:00". The famous inat fish for five dollars, was actually the time the boats would be in at, in this case 5:00 o'clock.
Life Lesson: Not everyone sees things the same way.
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