What's the dumbest thing you ever did? I've done quite a few in my life, but one of the dumber things I did recently was to completely misunderstand something my mum said. Now this doesn't sound dumb per se, but in context... well, you'd think I was born yesterday.

My mum was speaking about various things to do with the family, catching me up on stuff (since I'm always the last to know, it seems). She said something like, "Your dad bla bla bla", and I responded with,

"Who's Hector?"

Then my mum stopped, turned around, and looked at me incredulously, "Hector?!"

I had honestly thought she had talked about a guy named Hector. The dumbest part of this story is that we don't know anyone by that name.

Hector lives on now. The other night my mum apparently turned to my dad and said, "Good night, Hector". Dad had no idea what she talking about.