Like in many other languages, a homophone causes some misunderstandings.

The following joke is resulted from the above misunderstandings.

A senior man went into a restaurant with his wife. Whey they were sitting at their table, a group of young Beer girls stormed them and asked them to buy their beers. Being annoyed by these girls and to show that he did not like young girls in front of his wife, the man shouted at the girls that he didn’t liked being surrounded. The word “being surrounded” could mean having body hairs. Upon getting this reaction, the girls left him with resentment.

Soon after that, another young Beer girl who was standing far from the group just now approached him and pleaded him to buy her beer instead.

“You can have mine then since I don’t storm you,” said the girl. [The whole sentence could mean in Khmer as “please eat me as I have no body hairs”. This even makes the man become angrier.

“Get away too!” said the man, “having no body hairs like that brings misfortune.”