[BlueLancer]

Shortly after my now-deceased wife arrived in the States from her native Australia, we went into the PX here at Fort Hood to purchase some eraser tips for my mechanical pencils. We went back to stationary are looked around for awhile but couldn't find any, so my wife decided to go up to the front of the store and ask one of the cashiers where they were.

I was way near the back of the crowded store when I heard my wife's Australian-accented voice calling from the front cash registers ...

"Honey, the cashier says that the rubbers are in the pharmacy section."

It was only later that I found out that the Aussies (and the Brits, I guess) call "erasers" "rubbers" because, as my wife put it, "They rub out your mistakes."

It was awhile before I went back into that PX again.

[Seruzawa]

Now that really let the air out of your tyres.

[allmendream]

I suppose her ‘clarifying’ that the “rubbers” were “for the end of my husband’s pencil” wouldn’t have helped much. ;)

[Vor Lady]

In India they use ‘rubbers’ for erasers as well.

[momtothree]

“... the cashier says that the rubbers are in the pharmacy section”.

Hysterical!!