confusion

me: we need to do a little shopping saturday to get some staples i didn't want to buy before we moved.

kimmo: what staples?  we have plenty.

me: (annoyed).  well, milk.  and rice.  and meat for the cats.

kimmo: but what staples?

it turns out that while i was using the term to mean 'basic supplies', he was thinking of office staples (and he's right that we have plenty -- we have two boxes, the contents of which were enthusiastically sprinkled over the living room last week by lumi).