[QUOTE=Tower_Master]I felt
so wrong for laughing, though - I mean, like Mag said, it's almost too much to pass up, but...this is your
grandmother! I would've thought she'dve got the gist of them all, though, having had six kids and whatnot

[/QUOTE]
I know exactly what you mean....
Once my mother, who learned her English in the UK, yelled over to me to me at top volume (I was 17) while in a drugstore...
"Do you need any rubbers?"
She was talking about erasers...
Unfortunately a couple of people I knew from school were in the same aisle
