Not quite the same setup, but just as enduring, was the misheard words on a winter morning many years ago, when our driveway was being plowed out at some ungodly predawn hour.

One of us (probably me): "What the hell's that noise?"

The other: "It's just the plow guys."

Probably me: "The BUG EYES?!?"

Many years and several snowplow contractors later, they are still nearly always referred to now as that. Just not to their eyes.