Piano lesson, History of Music Lesson and Perfection

I had my piano lesson. I played him "Hot Damn Got a Woman". He liked it and laughed. He assigned me Satin Doll to arrange. While waiting for my one-on-one History of Music II lesson, I ate a chocolate croissant and another similar bread-like thing with ham and cheese for lunch at my favorite snack/bakery place I like to go to and asked the girl behind the counter who's always there, "Pos Lete Perfect?" which means "How do you say perfect?" since I had 4 euros and it cost 3.90. She looked at me with a dumbfounded, shocked face. She replied,

"What..."

I said it again in English since she speaks both languages perfectly, "How do you say perfect in Greek?"

She paused and finally said, "Telios...but you just told me I'm not perfect. You said 'then [something] telios' which means 'You're not perfect.'"

I was so confused because I knew that 'then' (that's the English phonetic spelling of it) means 'not' or whatever but I don't remember saying that she wasn't perfect. I WAS TERRIFIED. EPIC fail.

"No...what? I said, 'Pos Lete', meaning, how do you say, right?" She asked me if she gave me my ten cents back (probably to change the subject) and I said yes. I said I'm sorry twice and that I totally didn't mean for it to come out that way. She told me not to worry about it.

I finished eating my two pastry things and looked up 'perfect' in a Greek dictionary to make sure I knew the word. And I had already forgotten it. When you're under pressure like that, you don't remember what people say. At least I don't haha. I already knew that putting "Esai" before "Telios" would make the phrase "You're perfect" in Greek so I was all set. I was hoping that I wouldn't do some other stupid thing but I knew what I had to do. I picked up my tray and brought it to her while saying "Poli Kalo" which means "Very good" (She taught me how to say that a week or so ago). She said I didn't have to bring the tray to her and could slide it up against the wall where the other trays were. DUH. Ugh, another stupid move. I put my tray away.

"Whatever", I thought. "I'll say it as I'm leaving". I started to walk out and looked over at her. She had her hand rested against her palm and was smiling at me. OH yes. I announced to her, "Esai Telios" ("You're perfect"). She said, "Thank you," in a happy, smiley voice. I turned away and forgot to say "Parakalo" or even it's English equivalent, "You're welcome" but at least I did what I had to get done considering the hole I dug for myself. In my opinion though, I didn't only fill that hole back up - I created a mountain in its place! Just think, somehow an opportunity opened up for me to tell her she's perfect! Weird. Weird weird weird. Awesome awesome awesome.

The history of music lesson is going great! It's telios! It's SOOO nice to have a one-on-one history lesson since I've always struggled with ANYTHING having to do with history.

Good old Stod.