Keeping That Laundry Protected

(I work in a highly Latin neighborhood, and many of my customers cannot speak a lick of English. My mother shops at a store next door to my plaza, and she has found that many of their employees are Latinos who are still learning English. I decide to join her after work one day.)

Mom: “I’m looking for the thing you put on the hose in the washing machine, but I don’t know what it’s called. Half the staff here don’t know, either; trust me, I’ve tried.”

(We continue shopping until my mother spots a middle-aged Caucasian woman.)

Mom: “Thank goodness! You’re white! I’m looking for laundry condoms.”