But when I went into the post office to get one, and said to the clerk, “I need one of those big cardboard tubes to mail some photo prints in,” and he said, “Oh, you mean a mail tube,” and I immediately thought “male tube,” I couldn’t keep a straight face.
I barely made it out of the post office before busting a gut.
Possibly the best misspelling moment ever! I think it should be a viable word from here on out on the SDMB, (though it doesn’t fit the coiner, who I am sure is a fine person):
Fecetious: adj., shit-like; or, a state of being, i.e., a shit