My mom's staying at my house over the weekend. She just moved here from California. Let's gloss over all the obvious omg stuff, and cut to the chase. Scene: this morning at breakfast. I'm wearing a black T-shirt that has a Japanese character on the front.

Mom: Why are you wearing that shirt?
Me: Ummmm ... why?
Mom: I don't understand what it's saying.
Me: (shows mom that underneath the Japanese character it says "PEACE" in English).
Mom: But that doesn't say "peace," it says "flat"!
Me: OMGWTF!!!!
Mom: Ohhh, I get it. This character 干 plus this character 和 together means "peace," but if you only have the first character, all it says is "flat"!
Me: (rips off t-shirt, throws it in trash, dies of embarrassment)
Marcus: Hey! KANGA! Guess what Rabbit's shirt really says!!!!