Perceptions of words

Thinking back to a time that i said something that I didn't meant to be taken the receiver took it was last year in high school. I was going to class and one of my good friends who was a girl was walking to in and I said she looked tired. Meaning that she looked like she would rather be sleeping. But supposedly when you tell a girl that they look tired that it means that look bad; not they look like they would rather be sleeping. Luckily one of our mutual friends that was walking with me told me what girls perceive looking tired meant. So I was able to apologize and try to back track with what I said. Once I knew what her meaning of tired meant I felt bad and did not mean to make it sound that way. Luckily she was not that mad at me and we later joked about it but I learned a few things that day about the way that men and woman give different meanings to words and the context that these words are used. So since that point I make sure that I never tell a girl that she looks tired because they may perceive it differently from the way that I mean it. So I think that it is important that we watch what we say and say it in the right context so someone will not take what we say and think it means something else.

Do you stay mad at some one if they tell you something and they did not mean it, the way that you took it, if they apologize about it?