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The narrator gets into his car after shopping but realizes it is the wrong car when the farmer's dog licks him. He finds items belonging to the farmer's wife in the car. He goes to the farmer's house, which he finds using the address on the dog's collar. They laugh about the misunderstanding. Later, the narrator's wife finds a bale of hay in their car, realizing he got into the wrong car again.

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A Slight Misunderstanding Summary

The narrator gets into his car after shopping but realizes it is the wrong car when the farmer's dog licks him. He finds items belonging to the farmer's wife in the car. He goes to the farmer's house, which he finds using the address on the dog's collar. They laugh about the misunderstanding. Later, the narrator's wife finds a bale of hay in their car, realizing he got into the wrong car again.

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A SLIGHT MISUNDERSTANDING - SUMMARY

“A SLIGHT MISUNDERSTANDING”, is a story written by J B Boothroyd, a renowned English writer.


The story is all about the instances of misunderstanding by himself, the narrator and of a farmer's wife.
The story begins by telling that on a Saturday, the narrator finishes shopping groceries and collecting
laundry, he also mentioned about the small black car that he bought, which was a trend of those days and
many people owned same type of car. It was also parked among the crowd of the exact same black cars.
While returning, he gets into his own car, but it was actually the carelessness of a farmer's wife who kept
her things in the wrong car, which turned out to be the narrator's. He thought he got into the wrong car
when he was licked by the farmer's dog, and also when he found her handbag and stuffs. On the dog's
collar, was written the address of his house. With the help of that, he finds the farmer's home. The farmer
but took everything rather well as he knew of his wife's nature of carelessness. Then he told about the
incident to him and when he checked the number plate of the car, he realized that he was right at the first
place. He offered him a cup of coffee. Then, they had a good laugh, and the whole thing ended on a very
happy note. There was another confusion that came up. After the narrator had returned homer and his
wife went to collect the fruits, fish and groceries and dry-cleaned items from the boot (space to keep
luggage in the car), she found nothing but a bale of hay, which says that the narrator had got the wrong
car this time!!

Q1. What surprised the speaker when he was on his way home?
Q2. What did the speaker find in the cubbyhole? What did he think on seeing the items?
Q3. Who was Arthur? Who was Sheila?

Q4. No, there was nothing for it but to drive out......and make a clean breast of it.
a) Where had the speaker decided to drive to?
b) How was he going to make a clean breast of it?
c) How was he feeling when he made this decision?

Q5. “No you haven’t, darling, you put them in Mr. What’s-it’s car.”
a) Who said this to whom?
b) Who was Mr What’s-it’s? Why was he called so?
c) What had “darling” put in his car?

Q6. Give reasons why


a) the speaker disliked shopping in town
b) the speaker thought “Arthur” was a silly name for a dog.
c) the speaker said “it took quite a bit of courage to turn round and go back.”
d) the speaker’s wife was upset with him.

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