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*
I knew what a spade was when I was five...it was my “shovel” when I helped my dad in the garden. (Nearly two acres.)
Poor Bill. Didn’t he ever go to camp when he was in Scouting?