Unfiltered Story #400224

(I was packing to move and my mom was lending me a hand. She held up a roll of plumber’s thread tape.)

Mom: “Where should I put this?”

Me: “Oh, put that with my fish stuff.”

(Months later, one of my aquarium’s filters has an issue, so I took off the motor, removed the impeller, cleaned the whole thing out, put it back together again, and when I needed to screw it back in to the filter’s main body I searched for the thread tape in my fish stuff box. It was nowhere to be found. I made due and everything worked okay, but I was confused.

Some more months later, we go camping. We set up camp, head down to the dock, and I get ready to go fishing. I open up my tackle box, find this random spool of plastic, stare at it for a few seconds, and then as soon as it clicks I burst out laughing. I had told her to put it with my FISH stuff, and she had instead put it in my fishING stuff! What makes this even funnier to me is that we both had aquariums, and she’s a vegan. But for whatever reason when I said ‘fish stuff’, instead of thinking it had to do with our shared hobby of keeping fish alive, she went and packed it in with the stuff used for killing them.)