Does anyone call them rubbers these days?

[Connonym]

[Fox Mulder]

1. Yes.

[Connonym]

2. Someone laughed at me the other day for calling 'em that

I thought maybe I was just way too old or something

[sniffa]

3. True story

When I was a teen working at the Harvard Coop (way different then, before it became Barnes & Noble lite) an octogenarian couple entered the store on a rainy day and asked me where our rubbers are. I stammered, and the wife repeated herself so I directed her to where we sold our condoms. They returned shortly, blushing, and asked me, "Where do you sell galoshes?"

[Connonym]

4. LOL!!

Similar thing happened to my ex husband. He went into the grocery store to get ketchup and he was in a hurry so he asked the cashier where the condiments were, yup, she sent him to the condom aisle.

[Heidi]

5. Har!

:rofl:

[zanne]

17. HAH! Maybe that's why the word was discontinued. nt

[ghostsofgiants]

23. Haha, yeah, "rubbers" up here are galoshes or erasers, depending on who you ask.

[elshiva]

6. No, nowadays we call them

connonyms.

[Connonym]

7. oooh good one!

[elshiva]

9. The college I went to

had the initials C.O.N.D.O.M.

College Of Notre Dame Of Maryland. Proud to be a C.O.N.D.O.M. girl.

[Wapsie B]

19. Did you know anyone who went to

Friends University of Central Kansas?

[Guava Jelly]

8. The first time I purchased a rubber (Early 1980's)

The lady Clerk asked me "what size" I replied "I dunno? Average I guess" :rofl:
Back then they didn't sell different sizes in drugstores so the Asshole Clerk was F'n with me. :mad:
I feel old now. I used "Back then" Fuuuck!

[elshiva]

10. How about that joke:

"I get my condoms at Big & Tall."

on edit: not me I'm a lady...

[Guava Jelly]

11. Never heard that one

:rofl:

[elshiva]

12. I heard it on "Tracy Takes On"

[mikeytherat]

13. Never. I've always called them waterproof boots.

Wait. What are we talking about?

mikey_the_rat

[meegbear]

14. I call 'em galoshes

[EstimatedProphet]

15. They're called wellies now

[mcctatas]

16. Kevin Kelley's Wellies....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoK87dRs5KM

[BrklynLiberal]

18. I believe that in the UK this is what they look like...

and they are used to rub pencil off paper...

[qb]

20. My dad always kept his rubbers by the back door. nt

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

21. A game to break a tie

is called the "rubber".

I have no idea why.

[NJmaverick]

22. What else would you call them?

[Connonym]

24. shoe prophylactics? nt

[Left Is Write]

25. Yes.

Of course, when I was growing up, "rubbers" was another word for galoshes or overshoes.

[MsTryska]

26. are we talking about erasers?

or condoms?

[JVS]

27. do you mean boot or condoms?

[Connonym]

28. the latter

but the confusion is part of the hilarity of the term. I'm sort of a pev.

[MAGICBULLET]

29. I've always called them

Jimmy hats

Where's your hat?? :P