• WoodScientist@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    At some point when I was a young kid and hadn’t learned anything about anything, I got it in my head that “condoms” is an abbreviation for “condiments.”

    Fast forward to watching the color drain out from my poor mother’s face at a restaurant when, after being asked if we needed anything, I calmly and with a completely straight face informed the waitress that we could use some condoms.

    • AxExRx@lemmy.world
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      23 hours ago

      When I was a kid, my parents had a dog that was already getting up there in years, named Arthur. At some point it was explained to me that he was moving slowly and getting tired more quickly because of his arthritis.

      I thought my dad was saying ‘Arthur-itis,’ as a way of saying the dog was getting old and frail. I discovered my mistake when we were at my grandmother’s and I blamed her taking an hour to get ready to go out for dinner on her ‘Nana-itis’

    • glimse@lemmy.world
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      23 hours ago

      My aunt was horrified when I told her I made a condom…I had made apartment with LEGO and just learned the word “condominium”

      • Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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        22 hours ago

        Oh god, a LEGO condom… You thought stepping on a LEGO was bad… Try sticking a whole sculpture in ya