Me: I’m looking for my special spoon. Have you seen it?

Buster: You have a special spoon?

Me: Yes. It’s got a long handle and a small spoony thing on the end.

B: It’s a spoon with a small...spoon? What are you talking about?

Me: No, it’s a long-handled spoon with a small...spoony thing! The part of the spoon that SPOONS! Did you maybe take it to work and forget it there?

B: Um. I do not know. I really don’t look at the spoons all that closely. Why is this one so important?

Me: I need it to eat yogurt with.

B: You can’t use another spoon?

Me: I guess, but it’s more satisfying to eat it with this spoon. Are you sure you haven’t seen it?

B: ~gazes at me, apparently reevaluating our relationship~

B: Uh, no. But I will be sure and tell you if it turns up.

Me: Pssh, fine. Bet you left it at work and did not even realize the value of that which you had lost.