I’m not a native speaker, so please care with me: how can something be ON the ceiling? Or is the proposition “on” also used if something is attached to a surface?

My physio asked me where I got my tattoo (that she was staring at). Tell my why my brain said “on my leg” and I had a mild stroke before I could say the name of the shop.

One time, I bought a giant picture of a spaceship taking off. I brought it home and proudly showed my then girlfriend and our mutual friend, who was visiting. The friend said “nice! Where’s it going?”

I didn’t know the destination of this particular space flight. I had impulsively bought it at a thrift store and done no research. I thought about it for a minute, then said " … Space?"

Turns out she was asking where I was planning to hang the picture in the house.

I mean even if you genuinely thought that’s what it was asking for, just ceiling is extremely nonspecific

I am specifically this kind of dumb

I am not very familiar with smoke alarms, so this made sense in my brain for five seconds before I realized it (I) was really stupid

They could at least spell ceiling

This smells of apprentice.

Rookie mistake.

It’s actually called “the overhead.”