I want to share with you this wonderful short story about communication. I found it on LinkedIn but was not able to track it down to the original author.
A popular speaker said: “The best years of my life were spent in the arms of a beautiful woman who wasn’t my wife!” Audience was shocked. The speaker added: “that woman was my mother!” (Laughter and Applause)
A listener tried it at his home. He said loudly to his wife, “The greatest years of my life were spent in the arms of a very beautiful woman who was not my wife!” Standing there for 20 seconds trying to recall the second half of the joke, he finally said “…and I can’t remember who she was!” and he regained his consciousness in a hospital bed.
Moral: make sure you get the message right!
