For real, or hoping for a government burial detail if he plead ignorance? I tried that once when asked/told to get the hoe and weed the garden.
Didn't work...
No, for real.
“I guess I’ll just have to use the *snow shovel*,” he objects.
“We don’t have a snow shovel, Bill. That tool in your hand is a *spade*.”
“Oh. It doesn’t look like what you use to dig holes ...”
*thud of forehead hitting keyboard*