Miscommunication!

You know how we hear about miscommunication all the time?  Well let me tell ya!  It can be mind blowing when ONE single word can change things!  Recently there was some miscommunication between my husband and his father. Not anything argumentive but just mind blowing. 

While my husbands father was visiting about two weeks ago, the dreaded conversation of money comes up.  My father in law starts up with it again, just like every single time.  My husband oh so the wonderful man he is says, if I had $10,000 I would give them to you.  So the conversation changes through out the day and my father in law leaves.

 Days pass and my husband is not so himself and I asked him what was wrong?  He said, that his dad called and that my father in law and sister in law were talking that he was going to call my husband and take him up on that money.  My husband was floored!  I said WHAT! Rewind just a bit.  My father in law heard wrong!  He thought my husband was giving him $10,000 buckaroos! My husband replied, with dad I was saying “IF” I had that I would give it to you, I didn’t say that I “had” it. 

So one single word my friends can blow your socks off!  So lets listen carefully and speak clearly, we don’t want people thinking something else.