"Slightly retarded"? Gee Mom, thanks.

Today for dinner my mom was putting together meat for burgers and she told me to make a salad with lettuce, tomatoes, and cucumbers that she had in the refrigerator.
And, well...


Zucchini.


Looks really, really similar to this cucumber. 
Anyway, I cut up zucchini and then she was mad because I'd peeled it and even though she was going to cook it today anyway, I'd peeled it like a cucumber and we never peel zuchinni.
Ok, so I didn't know one long green vegetable over the other.  No big deal!  We cooked the zuchini anyway and made it work, and the salad was fine.  I just peeled he cucumber too and cut it up.
Then when my mom was talking to my grandma on the phone she called me "slightly retarded" for mixing up the two and they both got a good laugh out of something that shouldn't have been embarrassing but now is.  Thanks, mom.