Actual conversation over the phone:
Me: I figured out why I was upset last night. It’s because you want to do that DVD workout now but when I could do it and wanted to do it with you, you wouldn’t do it. Now I can’t do the workout because of my knee, you want to do it.
Him: Can’t I be flippant?
Slight Pause
Me: Can you be what?
Him: Flippant, you know, flippant.
Me: I don’t think that’s what that word means. I mean, what do you think that word means?
Him: Are you near a computer?
Me: Oh I’m looking it up. It means frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity
Him: Oh.
Me: That’s not the definition you intended, right? You meant more along the lines of changing your mind about the DVD, right?
Him: Yeah, that’s how I meant it.
Me: See what I did there? You literally used the wrong word but I interpreted what you meant to say based on the context of our conversation. I did what you can never do with me, see?
Him: Uh-huh.
Me: I’m serious. You see what I just did there, right?
Him: I understand because you pointed out to me that I should understand but I don’t understand how I’m supposed to do that.