Language humor (unintentional)

A couple of days ago, one of my sons (D) came in and asked why we hated our toilet. It turns out that I had placed little sticker notes on various objects around the house so that my wife could learn few German words. In German, der, die and das are the equivalents to "the" in English and each noun has a gender. We have to learn those specific articles along with the words. Anyway, he knew what was meant, but it looked nonetheless like we had a death wish on the toilet.