Head Scratchin'

Two little language absurdities have occured to me over the past few days...

When we were out at the restaurant on Saturday (after the Blessing of the Marriage), someone turned down dessert because they 'were watching their figure'. Isn't it more that they were trying to get other people to watch their figure, and thus they were trying to lose a bit of weight?

And just now, someone was telling me how an alarm has gone off at their place of employment. By this, of course, she meant that the device which creates the warning noise had actually turned on. So what will she say when the loud noise stops. That the alarm has gone on again?

Hmmm...