The "manger" for the Nativity...

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This is kinda belated since we're getting ready to put the Christmas decorations away, and this actually started over Thanksgiving when we put the Nativity out for display. My husband's mother did a lot of ceramics and she painted a Nativity. Although it really belongs to my sister-in-law, we have it right now. When my husband went to put it out, he told me that he didn't bring the manger out of his fathers attic, which is a good thing because we didn't have the room for it on the bay window. I looked at him like he was nuts. I mean, the figurines are big, but they're not that big! And besides, what's the point in putting out the Nativity if you're missing the manger? I mean, that's the most important part! Well, come to find out, he thought the manger was the stable or barn that you put everything in. He found it hard to believe that the manger is actually just the box that the baby Jesus is laid in. What was even funnier to me is that when his sister came over for dinner she also said it would have been nice to have the manger out with the Nativity. How can a whole family have this wrong? You'd think that somewhere in the last 40 years someone would have corrected them? I wonder how many odd looks they got when they said something like that?I think they're always going to call the stable the manger though, I think it's too late to teach those old dogs new tricks. Do you know someone who is constantly calling something the wrong name, even after they've been corrected many times for it?