The Have-in-It

A listener shares a funny childhood misunderstanding: Her four-year-old kept referring to something in the have-in-it. It took a while before she realized the word he meant was cabinet. The family got such a kick out of the boy’s logic that they still use that word today. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “The Have-in-It”

We had a voicemail from Annabelle who says that when her son was about four years old, he asked to see if they had something in the havenet. And she said, what? The what? And then she realized he was talking about their cabinet.

And to this day, the family calls the cabinet the havenet, which makes sense, right?

Right, because the cabinet has things.

Yeah, look in the havenet.

Havenet.

Sweet.

Little cute kid things.

Those are always the best.

Well, I’m glad they were havenet.

I’m havenet, too.

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