I just thought of another one... this one is me and my hubby. We were in an auto parts store one day and he was on a mission to find something in the "play pretty" isle. After several minutes of watching him search in vain I asked what he was looking for so I could help speed the process along. He said he was looking for a sticker to put on the race car, "... you know... Oh, what do you call that skull thing... a Jolly Rancher!" Now every time I see a Jolly Roger flag or sticker, I point and say, "Look honey, it's a Jolly Rancher!" He usually flips me the bird.
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You sure he wasn't looking for one of those bendy things?
My hubby used to work at NAPA Auto Parts, about 10 blocks up the street from where Pambo and I worked at the time. We went up there one day for some reason. Pambo found herself fascinated by the "bendy things" that were hanging on the wall... "bendy things" is a Pamboism for exhaust pipes/parts made up when we were standing there and she was trying to tell me what she was so fixated by.
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I just remembered this. Back in high school or right after we graduated my friend had a pregnancy scare. So she bought a test and waited for her parents to leave to take it. It was negative. She was relieved but didn't know how to dispose of it because she was afraid that her parents would find it. So she had me drive her around. She thought about throwing it in a dumpster but was afraid she would get caught due to it being illegal. We drove around forever with this thing, all of a sudden she yells "Stop the car!" I stopped and I still can't believe she did this! She threw it in a postal mailbox! As bad as it was it just became a joke. Out of the blue, one of us would yell "Put in the mailbox!" I don't know why she thought that was any less illegal!
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I'll bet you're not too far off Sparky. I could see a mailman picking it up and going, "What the heck is this?" Looking at it for a minute, and then realizing what it was, and instantly dropping it.