What did you say?

I called Maile one morning and asked her "What are you doing?"
"I'm just stripping off the mattresses," she replied.
I thought that was strange wording, but I replied, "Oh, I'm putting sheets on our beds while you're taking all of yours off."

Long pause...

Then she said, "Huh?"

So I repeated what she had said and what I had said.

"Mom, I said I was 'shipping off the Matheses' (they had been babysitting the Mathes' children all morning and had just had them picked up by the parents).

GOOD GRIEF!