tea and biscuits yum yum yum

i am still having a ridiculously hard time with the language given that it's, erm.. english... i told the boy next to me in class yesterday that i really liked his pants. he just gave me this shocked and confused look for the whole 30 seconds it took me to remember that pants means underwear, and i actually meant to compliment his trousers. i'm sorry, i just can't take the word trousers seriously. 21 years of thinking trousers were what old men wore, tweed pants up to their chests that are just a wee bit too short, trousers. for the most part my friends have been understanding of my handicap, laughing only minimally and very rarely pointing.