I love stories like this.

From Simon World.

Reminds me of the Two Ronnie’s hardware shop sketch:

BARKER: Four candles!
CORBETT: Four candles?
BARKER: Four candles.
(Ronnie Corbett makes for a box, and gets out four candles. He places them on the counter)
BARKER: No, four candles!
CORBETT (confused): Well there you are, four candles!
BARKER: No, fork ‘andles! ‘Andles for forks!