The best vase to have a sheet on the beach...

Learning English is made difficult for Czechs because we don't have those little accents & funny little shapes above our letters to emphasize, or at least give a clue, that the word should sound a certain way. An amusing example of this was provided recently in one of my seminars.

One young man was telling us a story about an accident he had at work. He was a waiter, and he was laying a table...
'And I put a ways on the sh*t...' 
'You did what?!!'
'I put a ways on the...'
'Ways?'
Yes, you know, for flowers.'
'Ah ha! A vase!' (I quickly scribbled it on the blackboard...oh, the perils of American English!)
'So, I put the vase on the sh*t...'
(Cue uncontrolled laughter from his classmates.)
'Sheet! I think you mean 'sheet'!'
'...and I accidentally pulled the sheeeet and the ways fell on the floor...' Remembering this video - 

I quickly added that I'm glad it didn't happen on a beach :-)