A Tallahassee listener remembers as a child misunderstanding the sign at the Budget Inn as an exhortation–as in “Bud, get in!” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Bud, Get In!”
We’ve talked before on the show about childhood misunderstandings of words.
And we got a great example from Tracy Fletcher in Tallahassee.
Tracy writes,
Growing up, I would ride past a motel on the way to and from school every day. As I was learning to read, I always liked the idea that it was named the Bud Get In, as in, hey, bud, get in here. It was until I used it as a landmark reference for something else that my mom informed me it was the budget inn. Not necessarily friendly, just a cheap place to stay.
Bud, get in.
Hey, bud, get in.
Why not?
It kind of takes you back, right, to when you’re a kid and you’re parsing out all these words and they don’t quite make sense.
My wife and I both had the really common one of Or’s Divorce.
Oh, yeah, of course.
What are the Or’s Divorce?
Never taking years to connect them to hors d’oeuvres.
