Context, context, context

A college student did not pay attention to the context in which her professor was speaking, and this is what went down:

Then she compounded her idiocy by turning herself into a victim:


Fortunately, I haven’t had anything even close to this situation, but a colleague who once told a student that her paper was filled with barbarisms ran to the dean to complain that the professor had called her a barbarian.

Have you ever said something and had it taken the wrong way and completely out of context?

Last week’s Pit Thread on point

Oops. Never mind.