
I’ve been involved in a lot of misunderstanding, and lately it has become one of my specialties. Either I made other people misinterpret what I meant or I’m the one who got the wrong idea. It keeps on happening.
So these are the steps on HOW TO CAUSE A MISUNDERSTANDING:
1. Use gestures and signs instead of words and sentences.
2. Use one or more messenger(s) to form a message chain instead of informing straightly to the person himself.
3. Use short-forms, unfamiliar words or much better; a different language.

4. Practice whispering in public.
5. Instead of mentioning the exact time or the name of a place and/or a person, replace them with much more common phrase like “that place” or “usual time” or just “him/her”.
6. Assume people will always understand what you say.
7. Never use emotions. Ever.
8. Always use one-way communications. E.g. SMS instead of call, emails instead of chatting, notes instead of face-to-face interaction.
9. Always takes what people say, especially jokes, seriously.
10. Stick to assumptions. Don’t ask.
Conclusion:
Misunderstanding is an ACCIDENT that CAN BE PREVENTED.
It may not take lives like what accident between vehicles usually did, but it can break a heart and that is unnecessary for something that could be avoided.

-IMAN NAILAH 2009-