This happened to me on Saturday, but it really didn't strike me as overly funny until today.  I suspected that my camera has had a couple bad dust specs on the CCD filter for a while now, and I was hoping it was the lens I was using instead.  So I cleaned my lenses and still was having these glaring specs appear in my shots.  Usually they were easy to edit out, but they ruined a couple really good shots, or caused me to crop shots in ways I normally wouldn't to remove them.  Since I'm going to California on Friday with my camera, I wanted to make sure everything was in 100% tip top shape before I went.  I started investigating easy ways to clear the filter without paying lots of money, or shipping my camera somewhere.  Ken Rockwell suggested using an ear syringe to blow any dust off.  I didn't have an ear syringe, so I headed off to Walgreens to buy one.

If you don't know what it is, it's a blue plastic thing that looks sort of like a mini turkey baster, that you commonly get as the parent of a newborn child to suck the snot out of their nose when they have a cold.  So I walked to the general area where I thought they would be, and sure enough, they had a couple boxes of them.  As I grabbed the box and looked to make sure it was what I needed, a woman next to me turned and said:

Woman:  Awww.  How old is your baby?
Me:  I bought it about six months ago, and absolutely love it.
Woman:  *silence*
Me:  *laughing*  I don't have a baby.  This is to blow out the inside of my camera.
Woman:  Oh.

And it worked like a charm.