It is not uncommon for children to communicate many elaborate ideas that make absolutely no sense based on misunderstood information. However, it's not just children who misunderstand information. People of all ages have been guilty of misunderstanding something they hear. When I was a freshman in high school, an incident like this happened to me. While enrolled in Mr. McGee's Freshman Honors English course, I was required to write essays almost every week for the reading/writing packets. One week, I had the misfortune of misinterpreting the page number I had been assigned for the writing assignment, so when I sat down to write the essay, I wrote the wrong number