Double Meaning

Obviously, wherever you travel to, words have different connotations. I had the following conversation with my key school principal today:

She turns to me “Don’t you have a rubber?”

(Though I know that this refers to an eraser, I wasn’t paying attention, and caught off guard and started laughing.)

“Why are you laughing?”

“Where I’m from rubber is slang for a condom.”

Now it is her turn to break into giggles. In a bout of mirth she says “Why would an old lady like me need a condom?” She then ran off to repeat the story to Modjadji who was just as amused by the whole thing. After, she came back and asked “Can I borrow an eraser?”