I would never say that!

I was in a store the last week of June and asked for help. The young man helped me and asked me if there was anything else I needed. I asked where something was in the store, and he showed me despite my objections, saying I only needed the aisle number.

Then, he asked again if I needed anything else. I said, "Oh, no. I was looking for colored forks, but I cannot find any."

Even though he was wearing a mask, I could tell he was stunned by his changed body language and voice. "What are you looking for?" "Colored forks." He repeated something that was muffled by the mask and still looked stunned. His body language had changed. "Colored forks." He still was not responding. "I am looking for colored forks. I cannot use the black ones. I am using them to stick up in my garden so the pointy end keep cats from using the dirt for a bathroom."

His body language changed and he said, "Oh, I see." At that moment I realized he had heard "forks" as "folks."

Can you even imagine? I was properly horrified!

EDIT: I should have said he was black and half the people in the store were black.