I had just moved to Texas. Walking my dog and a man approaching us with a dog said, “Do you want them to mate?”
Horrified, I said a loud No.
After we walked on a hit my husband tells me the man had asked if I wanted the dogs to MEET.
The Texas accent messed me up!

When I was a kid growing up in Maryland we had a neighbor named Walt. Walt taught me how to fish and how to catch Chesapeake Bay Blue Crabs off the pier behind our house. He was always happy to look after me when my folks were busy and he had a pretty impressive fish tank in his place. Every day after school I would stop by to see him and he would let me feed his fish.

I learned a lot from Walt, but what I didn't learn until 20 years later was that Walt was legally blind.

Edit: For those who keep bringing up the fact that "legally blind" doesn't necessarily mean "blind," Walt's eyesight had been deteriorating for years, and there were definitely signs that I would have seen had I not been a naive six year old. However, he maintained his independence the entire time I knew him, only relying on others for the occasional lift into town.