Today, I was visiting California with a friend. I saw a lot of palm trees by the road and asked my friend, "Wouldn't that be dangerous when there are coconuts...?" My friend gave me weird look and told me that those are two different trees. Turns out I thought palm trees and coconut trees are the same tree for 20+ years. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I went to the mall and couldn't find a parking spot. After circling around for 20 minutes, I finally saw a shaded spot in the uncovered parking lot area under a tree. It turns out, I'd parked under a coconut tree. I could tell from the coconut planted into my hood. FML
Today, I saw a neglected potted palm tree on the front porch of what I thought was an empty house down the street from me. I took it home to nurse it back to health. When I got home from work, it was gone. Later, when taking a walk, I spotted the palm, right back on the porch I'd taken it from. FML
Today, I called a tree removal company to have my diseased elm removed. When I got home from work, I was surprised to find it still there. Not as surprised as my neighbor was to discover that his tree was missing, nor as surprised as his children when they saw there was no more tree-house. FML
Today, I woke up and found that the tree in my front yard was gone. FML
Today, I went to what I thought was my friend’s house for a barbecue. I walked into the backyard and started chatting with people I didn't recognize. After about 20 minutes, I realized I was at the wrong house, eating a stranger's food. FML
Today, I mistook a stranger in a supermarket aisle for an old friend and gave them a big bear hug from behind. Turns out, my "friend" was just now a very confused man in a very similar, but oddly specific jacket that I thought my actual friend had claimed he made himself. Guess not. FML
Today, my brother asked to borrow a hammer, a chisel, and a drill just in case. I asked him if he was finally getting round to starting work on his apartment. Nope, he was just going to crack open a coconut he'd bought at the supermarket. FML
Today, I met my neighbor. When she saw me cutting down trees on my lot, she interrogated me and called the police because she didn't believe I owned the property. She didn't call the cops when she watched someone steal a cord of wood from my property two days ago. FML
Today, I was tossing my car keys into the air and catching them. I threw them up really high, only to have them land in the branches of the palm tree outside my door, at the very top. FML
Today, I mistook a random stranger in the grocery store for my friend and started complaining about how annoying my coworkers are at the moment. The stranger just nodded, concerned, and slowly backed away. FML
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idragosani 17
Coconuts *do* grow on palm trees, but only a specific kind, the coconut palm (Cocos nucifera)
RichardPencil 32
Kinda like I felt when I moved to a place lousy with pine trees and a shit-ton of pine cones. I thought, "Great! Pine nuts!" Nope. Only certain species have the good pine nuts!
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idragosani 17
Coconuts *do* grow on palm trees, but only a specific kind, the coconut palm (Cocos nucifera)
RichardPencil 32
Kinda like I felt when I moved to a place lousy with pine trees and a shit-ton of pine cones. I thought, "Great! Pine nuts!" Nope. Only certain species have the good pine nuts!
Anderling 33
To be fair they *are* called coconut palms, and they and the non-coconut palms are pretty much always drawn the same in cartoons.
timinator5000 28
I was today years old when I learned that.
EpicOracle 24
whether palm or coconut, you're right. it'll be dangerous if they fall
ElizibethRose 4
I just figured it out myself