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Working in a quarry, the boss's wife sent me outside to measure a tipper body as she was pricing a job to transport bark chippings by volume, not weight as was normal for stone.
When I came back in, she was busy on the phone, so I left a note with "2.4 x 2.0 x 7.5 metres" by her desk.
I asked later if she had read it and worked it out and she said, "Yes, but you measured it in metres and I can't work out cubic metres from straight metres, so I converted it to feet, worked out how many cubic feet that was, then converted it in to cubic metres".
A conversation with one of my HR managers:
Her: How do you get to work?
Me: Bicycle
Her: What if it rains?
Me: Still by bike.
Her: What if it snows?
Me: Still by bike. I would only not come by bike if the roads are completely iced over. In that case I would bring my car.
Her: Car! You can't drive in London! It's too dangerous.
I was talking to my mate about nuclear missiles and the Cold War threat. We were talking about the 4 minute warning etc, My mates wife then joined in the conversation and after we explained to her what nuclear weapons were, panic set in and she asked if the Government know about these missiles?
We have all heard this story but I genuinely worked with a women in the early 1990's, who missed her junction on the M25 and because she knew it was an orbital motorway, she kept going until got to the junction again.