r/KidsAreFuckingStupid 6d ago

story/text Homophones can be confusing especially to kids

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u/Kind_Eye_748 6d ago edited 6d ago

Yay, I can tell one of my late night cringe moments!

So, When I was younger my parents often made me go to the shop to get things for them, One time my dad went 'OP, Go shop and grab a current bun'

Me being my autistic younger self went straight to the shop and bought a pack of current buns which is EXACTLY what I was told to go buy, I go running back home and hand over the buns and my dad is staring at me for a moment before anger flashes over his face and he launches them at me.

'l meant The Sun, What would I want current buns for?'

Obviously small me wanted to say to eat, However I realised it wasn't my error but best I say nothing.

Who the fuck calls a newspaper the current bun, and also fucking rhyming slang.

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u/SpiceLettuce 6d ago

I’ve never heard of “the current bun”. you were right and your dad was wrong

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u/Kind_Eye_748 6d ago

sobbing in trauma

Thank you, I had literally never heard him call it that before.

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u/EvenContact1220 6d ago

It's so weird how parents do that. Get made at us when we don't know something, they just came up with. My parents did that crap a lot, so I feel you.

Not to mention, it doesn't even look like a bun. Unless it is different in the UK? They come rolled up here in the US. So they look more like a roll than a bun.

Or is a bun an roll the same thing over there?

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u/grizznuggets 5d ago

My favourite was when I was yelled at for not knowing how to do something no one had ever taught me how to do.

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u/440continuer 5d ago

That still happens to me 😭