Depending on what generation you’re from, “Get your rubbers!” could mean put on your galoshes or it put on something else! This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Not Those Rubbers, These Rubbers”
We were talking earlier about terms that are intelligible to one generation and not another, or maybe understood differently by one generation and not the other.
Here’s a great one on our Facebook page from Melissa Van Ort. She says, my mother reminds my father to pack his rubbers on business trips. They are the rubber pullovers for his polished business shoes in case of rain, not anything else that might come to mind. She’s not encouraging extramarital activities.
No, no, she wants him to take his galoshes, but I can totally say that.
Sure, yeah. There’s a problem there, right?
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