Promiscuous Girl

I once knew a man who sat on the toilet reading the dictionary. He picked out words & made a point of expanding his vocabulary. Some of the stuff he said (spoken with a fake accent) was annoying, ridiculous and often incorrectly used. Today, a female immigrant student with a real British accent reminded me of him. No exaggeration, she knocks off a novel per day & also spends extra time reading non-fiction so her word bank is quite extensive. Imagine how a little p-word mix up can turn plain simple English into a near cat fight.


Girl #1 (the reader): You are a very promiscuous girl.

Girl #2 looks confused because she doesn't know the meaning of the word.

Girl #3 (eavesdropping): Do you know what that means?

Girl #1: Promising.

Girl #3: No, it's sexual like in that song. "Wherever you are, I'm alone. It's you that I want. Promiscuous girl, you're teasing me. You know what I want and you got what I need."

Girl #2 (being talked about): Whoa!

Obviously upset, her head drops & she walks away from the other girls.

Girl #2: Mrs. L, what does promiscuous mean? Girl#1 called me that word.

Me: I think she means very precocious. Don't worry, it's a compliment. She's trying to tell you that you're really smart for your age.

Now a group of girls are in the background singing the promiscuous song & laughing about Girl #3 who is at this point completely devastated.