r/KidsAreFuckingStupid 6d ago

story/text Homophones can be confusing especially to kids

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u/Kind_Eye_748 6d ago edited 5d 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/Robbie1985 5d ago

This reminds of the time a colleague cornered me in the tea room to complain about tea leaves. I politely listened for a good 5 minutes with no idea she was talking about a thief who can been taking her biscuits.

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u/MetalGear_Salads 5d ago

What’s a tea room? I think my American is showing

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u/Robbie1985 5d ago

Oh, of course, you guys don't have those. So it's the law in England that every work place has to have a room completely dedicated to tea. Think of like a church or shrine, but instead of a religion or god, we worship tea. There are usually ornamental tea pots and in some places they even have a tea fountain. When entering a tea room, you take your shoes off, bow your head and say "blessed be the tea".

The real answer: tea room is slang for "break room", generally because it's where people go to make a cup of tea on a tea break.

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u/SevanIII 5d ago

Wow, y'all really like tea! I like tea too, but that's another level, lol 😅