A few times during my career I’ve had the primal age of editing reports in which the author typed “asses” instead of “assess.” I’ve generally red-penned the error with something like “KEEP YOUR MIND ON YOUR WORK!!!”
Once in a rush to get groceries put away before company came to dinner I inadvertently put the toilet paper in the refrigerator and the milk who-knows where.
It wouldn’t have been that big of a deal except that we were temporarily living in a one-room studio and when I opened the refrigerator to serve beverages my guests saw the toilet paper. Made for some funny jokes.
My husband prefers milk with his dinner and I had to admit that I must have forgotten to pick some up. No milk in the appliance.
It wasn’t until later in the evening after our guests had gone home that we found the milk in the bathroom. If they saw it they were too gracious to say anything.
I had a boss named Tony who happened to be quite diminutive of stature. Often my customary email greeting “Hi Tony” would come out as “Ho Tiny” instead. Crying with laughter I would correct it… I can only hope I caught it every time.
My sister was once in a back and forth series of emails with a coworker. She needed to forward one email but it got lost in the ether. He wrote something to her to the effect that no one recieved it.
One of my coworkers was draft a regulation and used Supplicant in place of Applicant. It wouldn’t have made any functional difference. But it would have been a nice change of atmosphere, IMHO.
Reminds me of a joke I told on my husband, to his boss (our friend.) I said "Yeah, every once in a while people tell me what an asset he is to the company. As in, “Look at that ass settin’ over there!” Since husband really was an asset it went over better than the boss’s rendition of “Dickie Bird.” (He was British. The kids giggled in embarrassment.)