CAN’T Spell

(My dad and I are talking to my mom, describing something funny that happened in an episode of a TV show he and I watch together. We’re in a fairly crowded restaurant, with both older and younger diners surrounding us.)

Me: “So the main character volunteers to write an obituary for his wife’s aunt who had just died, but the newspaper printed it wrong.”

Dad: “Yeah, they spelled the word ‘aunt’ wrong. Instead of an ‘A,’ they used a ‘C.'”

Me: “Isn’t that funny?”

Mom: “So you mean they spelled ‘cant’?”

(My dad and I look at each other and then at my mom.)

Me: “Nooo, they spelled a-u-n-t, but used a ‘C’ instead of the ‘A.'”

Mom: *very loudly* “OOOOH, C**T!”