The Importance of Punctuation

In my office I have a set of shelves which hang above my desk. Sitting on the far shelf is a bottle of honey that I use to flavor my herbal tea. Last week I had a cup of tea to which I had yet to add the requisite honey. One of my coworkers was sitting under said shelf and I asked him to hand me the honey. He raised an eyebrow and we shared a laugh as we experimented with verbal punctuation, and what he mis-heard:

"Would you hand me that, Honey?" versus "Would you hand me that honey?"
We settled on: "Hey, OfficeNeighbor, would you please hand me that jar of honey to use in my tea?"

Ahh, much better.