More Traumatic Experiences at Swim Class

The swimming instructor was asking us what we were going as for Halloween.
One replied 'witch'. One replied, 'firefighter'. One replied, 'Frankenstein'.
One replied, 'TARDIS'.
I was smiling vacantly for a while, until the swimming instructor spoke again.
"A Tardis? Is that like from that Transformers show?"
And both of us were just staring at him sadly like,

No. Just...no.