My wonderful and extremely kindhearted mother O”H, was known for her bloopers. She would say innocent things that often came out just plain WRONG.
Twenty-five years ago, when she unfortunately was sitting shiva for her sister, an elderly male friend of our family came over to pay a shiva call, and came into the room where she was about to eat lunch. She did a double take and blurted out, “OH!I thought you were my dead brother-in-law!” To which my brother quipped, “Before or after he died?” Needless to say, she only meant that the resemblance momentarily had startled her. But after the initial shock wore off, we all had a good laugh (including the “zombie”) and it has become a well-known family story.