Too close for comfort

Recently, I had a rather embarrassing moment on MSN messenger with a friend, when something I wrote could be construed either in the 'normal way' or in the 'guy way' and he being a guy, chose to do it the 'guy way', resulting in an extremely embarrassed Sayesha yelling, "I did not mean it like THAT, you idiot! Geez! Guys and their one-track mind!"

Not wishing to further embarrass myself by describing what exactly happened, I shall move on to describe THE most embarrassing MSN moment that I have ever known. And thankfully, it had not happened to me. I had merely been a spectator.

In my second year in university, my room-mate was a final-year-student. One day, she came back to the room after an exam, when a classmate of hers, V, sent her a message on MSN, "Hey, how was the paper??"

"It was absolutely horrible! I think I'm gonna flunk!" She wrote.

"Mine was really bad too!" He said.

Now what she wanted to write next was this: "I'm so depressed, V. Let's go and jump in the Nanyang Lake!"

(The Nanyang Lake is a really filthy lake in my university.)

Stony silence from the guy for about a minute made her go back to read what she'd written. There was a sudden horrified scream from her, "Oh my God, Sayesha! What did I write??!!"

I rushed over to her computer. What I saw was enough to keep me laughing for the next few years every time I thought of it.

Well, it was not really her fault. The J and H keys on the keyboard are really too close to each other.