We cannot deny the fact that not everyone thinks the same. Some people just need a double explanation or more detailed information before getting a full grasp of the situation.
However, some people are just too much. It could also make you wonder if they are even using their brain cells. These people share the most ridiculous things that they found themselves explaining and couldn’t help but cringe.
1. Extra Cautious
I used to hang out with one of my coworkers. Many times while driving in the traffic, she turned on her car lights every time she had to abruptly push the brakes behind another driver.
She is a kind type of person, so my first thought was that she was trying to be polite and never push the claxon. Instead, she was flashing her car lights to get the other driver's attention. One day, I noticed she was flashing lights at almost every other driver we encountered.
When I asked her what she was doing, it happened to be that she did not know that tail lights turned on every time you pushed the brakes, and she was trying to turn them on by turning on the front lights. Haha, she is 27.
EasyBakeOven91
2. Weirdest Taste Buds
I have repeatedly tried and failed to explain to my coworker not to eat rotting meat. She'll a) leave chicken out on the counter all day to defrost. b) cook the chicken and then leave the cooked chicken out on the counter for a week and "pick at it" here and there.
She is out with food poisoning at least once a week. I've never met someone who throws up as much as her and wasn't bulimic.
She will eat her breakfast at 4 pm after it's sitting on her desk all day. She picked up eggs with cheese and mayo at 7 in the morning.
Then she'll call in sick the next day. I have shown her YouTube videos of bacteria growing and sent her articles about the dangers of E. coli.
She won't listen. She ate potato salad that was sitting in a hot trunk for 24 hours. She said it was liquid and tasted weird, but she doesn't like how refrigerated foods taste. One day, when she is paralyzed from botulism, I guess I can say I told you so.
electromouse1
3. Stucked Letter
I had a renter who was 19, and it was her first time living on her own. She didn't get that when you send a letter in the mail and have to put stamps on the letter. It came back due to no postage.
I basically had to confirm to her that she had to do this. Her response was, "It must be a Canada thing because I never had to do that back home."
She is Canadian from Quebec, but her parents sheltered her so much that she couldn't function on her own and thought Quebec and Canada were two different countries.
enrodude
4. Job Well Done
I was sitting in the lobby of a plastic surgery center. My wife had a very difficult pregnancy and bout with cancer. Long story short, she was getting her terrible scar taken care of, and I was there to support her.
This woman was sitting in the lobby with me, approx 55 years old. She was asking what I did, etc. I told her I was a NASA Cop and worked at JPL (which was literally 5 miles away).
She sat straight up, leaned toward me, and said, "Wait, so you fly around in space and enforce laws?" I waited because I could not tell if this woman was attempting to be funny as hell or psychotic as hell.
I replied, "Just the laws of gravity." I was waiting for a chuckle, and what I got was the woman sitting back in her seat, and she said, "Huh, I never knew we had guys like you." She was called back for her appointment.
SkolKing
5. The Employees
I bought a new one after my car was stolen and never recovered. When I went to get a new plate, the girl at the DMV told me just to transfer the old one.
Cue the Abbot and Costello act of me trying to explain the plate was still on the stolen car. It was never recovered either.
She refused to grant me a plate because I still had one registered, and it was fine that it was on a stolen car. It transfers. Took a second clerk to come over and help explain the situation.
A similar thing happened when the insurance was removed from the stolen car. Didn't have theft insurance (it was a pos-beater), so I just went in to cancel the policy because why pay for a car that was probably a burned-out husk?
Same act. Her: "But sir, you can't make a claim. You don't have theft insurance." me: "I know. I just want to cancel the policy." she repeated in various ways for 10 GD minutes until she called over manager because I'm being difficult.
She smugly grins at me as I explain my situation to the manager, and she says, "You see what I'm dealing with!" With three clicks of the mouse, he sighs and says, "Your policy has been canceled. Have a nice day." I left to the sound of her loudly arguing with him.
Oldmanenok
6. Changing Space
I was twenty years old and covering the reception desk at a mid-sized law firm on maybe the 14th or 15th floor of a high-rise building.
This attorney was apparently good at her job (from what I understood of her reputation; I didn’t know her well), but this story often makes me wonder about being smart and smart.
On this day, as she exited the elevator on her return from lunch, she decided to voice what seemed to be a puzzle that had stumped her for a very long time.
“I don’t understand this building. Why is it that when I enter the elevator facing away from the lobby, I exit facing the lobby on the floor above? It’s like the elevator turns around!”
I stared at her for a few seconds, contemplating time, space, creation, and the giant salary differential between our two positions before I spoke the last words I’d ever say to her.
“Ma’am, you turn around to face the doors once you get into the elevator. You’re facing the lobby when the elevator starts to move.” She went out of her way to avoid me after that.
[deleted]
7. Bad Teacher
I wasn't very successful, but I attempted to explain this to him. Let me set the scene: on top of a mountain in Maui with a tour group watching the sunset.
I hear the guy behind me telling his kids, "The sun sets in the west, so that's the Pacific Ocean, so that side over there is the Atlantic."
I laugh and turn around and acknowledge his hilarious joke. He was not joking, to which I replied, "You know this is all the Pacific Ocean, 360 degrees around." He then rolled his eyes and kept talking to his kids. Poor things don't stand a chance.
shiftyyo101
8. Worst Employee
My boss hired an assistant for me from a club he had attended the previous weekend. He told her that she needed to pay attention to everything I did, and then he would replace me with her.
The things I had to explain/show her how to address an envelope, write a business email, read a contract before signing it, and stay for the entirety of a client event.
She had to show up to work on time, not drink at work, not gossip at work, not have her boyfriend hang out at work all day, and more. Finally, she became so upset at how much work my job entailed (and she hadn't touched the surface) that she quit.
Bolaixgirl_105
9. Old Story
There was a commercial that used to air about 15 years ago. It told this tale about a rugged man who was best friends with a bear.
It talks about the strength of their friendship and their adventures together until the long, hungry winter. After that, it's just a story about a bear.
My girlfriend at the time looked at me and said, "I don't get it. Where did the man go?" I laughed at first because I thought she was making a joke, but she was serious.
I said, "They faced a long, hungry winter." She looked at me and said, "So, the man left to find food for them?" I mean, is she serious?
Electric_Evil
10. Rent Concern
First/last month's rent. "Last month" isn't a free month of rent after 11 months into the lease. Our landlord texted me on May 1st to ask why the roommate didn't send him rent.
When I group texted both roommates, they were angry that the landlord expected May's rent because "we paid first/last; May is already paid!"... SMH.
Cue me having to explain to two 30-year-olds that first/last covers your first month and the last month you live there. We were at the end of our one-year lease but did not give notice to move out. So no, May was not our last month.
roogoogle
11. The Miscalculations
I had to explain to a 50-year-old co-worker that the distance between the earth and the moon is NOT just 100 kilometers. "Whatever, then it's probably 110 kilometers ..."
Another one wanted to paint his living room and apparently did the math about how much paint he needed - he said he needed paint for about 15,000 square meters.
Unfortunately, some people have told him about his mistake. Unfortunately, I really wanted to see him buy that quantity of paint.
OddballNinja
12. Different Language
I had to explain that songs in other languages are allowed to be popular in other countries, especially ones by artists who are hugely popular in their home country and feature artists who are hugely popular in the USA.
My assistant manager didn't understand how we "let" a "Mexican get so popular despite the song IN ENGLISH saying, "This is how we do it down in Puerto Rico."
The song gets so popular here when "no one really speaks Spanish besides Mexicans." It was a soul-draining conversation.
[deleted]
13. The Blueprint
We had a lawyer who was moving to a new office and wanted us to scope it out for IT needs. One thing I asked for was a blueprint of the office.
I get there, and they give me the print, and I ask for the rest of it. They both insist that's the entire thing. I point out that the blueprint is a rectangle.
Their offices were a big L, with the bigger part of it missing from their print (including where the server room and the senior attorney's offices were).
Ended up drawing my own floor map to use. They also couldn't fathom that my office had a different ZIP code than theirs in spite of being in the same town.... They were real estate lawyers.
SJHillman
14. Pushing Button
I have a customer who is a nice older man. I do IT support. He's a retired engineer and mathematician who worked on the avionics upgrade for our CF-18 Hornet fighter jets.
He was given a plaque, and you don't get that for barely being involved. I could not tell him to press the Source/Input button on his monitor. "I don't understand. Just come over."
I get there, press a button, the screen lights up, and bill him. He was a little upset. I charged him and explained that when I tried to explain it on the phone, he made no effort at all and that if I hadn't come out to see him, I would have been at another job billing that person.
I also told him I could stick around and do anything else you needed on your computer, but since I had worked on his machine before, it was relatively locked down and clean and didn't need any maintenance.
I am extremely flexible and don't often charge if the customer needs a quick fix or a 2-minute TeamViewer session, but if you call me out, I charge for stepping in the door.
Hennoken
15. Wasting Money
Both of my in-laws are lawyers. They are the smartest people I know. I have also seen them have rather large blips in knowledge.
The worst one was that they were watching a CGI creation of a new technology they wanted.
They thought it was real. They thought this thing was being designed and produced.
They just had to throw enough money to the right people to get one. It took a solid twenty minutes to convince them it was akin to a cartoon.
Ironsweetiez
16. It Comes Back
I know a girl who's a great attorney, and she's one of the best in my city when it comes to corporate and employment law. However, when I met her, she was just starting her career.
We were at a friend's apartment and just getting to my friend's floor when she had to go downstairs with her boyfriend to retrieve something from their car.
Everyone entered the apartment while they did this. After a few minutes, there was a knock on the door, and there she was, asking us how she could get downstairs because the elevator button was always pointing up, and she couldn't find a button pointing down.
There was only one button, and it happened to have a triangle shape pointing up. She thought that the elevator was only supposed to go up. Never down. We had to explain to her how elevators worked.
ohhhnonotagain
17. Lights Out
My mother-in-law's friends at work were convinced that the world would become completely black during the eclipse, and many of them stayed home from work that day because they were afraid to drive in it.
She started to believe them. I asked her if she could see at night when the lights were on. She said yes. I asked her why she thought it would be any different during an eclipse.
She got pissed with me. She is an old Latina and works with a ton of superstitious old Latinas. My wife and I constantly have to correct stupid things they tell her.
TuMadreTambien
18. Shelf Life
My boyfriend has the worst behavior. He firmly believes that once something is fried or packaged, it's immune to spoiling.
Recently, he pulled a string cheese stick out of his pocket, wondered aloud how long it had been in there (4 days; he got it from my mom's house), and stuck it in the fridge.
It came with the argument, "It's still in the package! It's fine!" He was upset when he came home later that evening to eat it and found that I had thrown it away.
He also likes to leave his leftovers on the counter all night and eat them the next day. You really shouldn't eat fried chicken that's been at room temperature for 12+ hours.
litostx3
19. Shut Eyes
Legitimately had this conversation with a girl I know who is the dumbest girl on the planet. She wanted to know when her niece's eyes would open.
It was because every time, her eyes were closed. I had to explain that babies sleep a lot. She thought babies were just like animals.
This is the woman who, at age 22, was made to stay with her grandmother when her parents went out of town because she wasn't trusted in the house alone.
QuoyanHayel
20. The Land Is Sinking
My friend once told me a story about her roommate's family. We- my friend, her roommate, and I - were all living in Newfoundland, which is an island.
The roommate's family was supposed to come visit her for a week, having never been to Newfoundland before. They arrived in Newfoundland and stayed for something like two days before leaving again because they were terrified that the island was going to sink.
Apparently, the roommate had brought them to the beach, and the tide came in when they were there, and they thought it was the island sinking further into the ocean.
They had always been nervous about the roommate living on an island (they were worried about it drifting away) and tried to talk her out of it. They couldn't be convinced that it just wasn't possible for the island to sink or drift away.
MrsMarshmellow
21. The Weirdest Classmate
One time, I was sick and missed school for a couple of days. When I came back, my classmate asked if I had the zombie flu. Seriously?
She tried to convince me that zombies are real and that they are spread through the flu vaccine. Her "evidence" was a theory about the Walking Dead.
Another time, she said she wanted to be a heart surgeon. I asked her if she was taking biology because our school offers college-level bio. She did not know what biology was.
swaggysaggy
22. Sliced Bread
I might have told this story before, but I had to explain to a lady how sliced bread works. I used to work in a bakery that pretty much only did bread, and a lady came in, and this conversation happened;
The lady pointed at the bread and asked, “Do you have that but, like...in a bag of slices?” I was trying to be polite and said, “Oh yeah..we slice the bread.”
She said, “Oh, okay. But do you have it in a bag of slices??” I replied, “Um...yes, we bag it after we slice it.” She said, “Okay, but I really need this in a bag of slices.”
I again replied, “We put the bread in a machine that cuts it into slices, and then we put those slices in a bag.” She was so adamant and said, “Okay, but do you sell this same bread in a bag of slices?”
I finally had enough and said, “Let me show you.” I take the bread, slice it for her, and bring the sliced, bagged bread back to her.
She looked so excited you would think she had never seen sliced bread before. She was so ecstatic and said, “Yes! That's exactly what I wanted!”
MegalloDan
23. Different Species
My husband and I had a huge shout-out about this. It all started with me pointing out that fungus is an entire kingdom, so when someone presents a food as "fungus," it could mean it's as different from our common field mushrooms as we are from other animals, say, fish.
Turns out he had a sense that animal means "large land animal," incorporating mammals and reptiles, but he wasn't so sure about birds, reptiles, and anything in the sea.
He hated it when I started drawing diagrams, but I had to paint him a "picture of words" of the Tree of Life. I explained that animals incorporate all the life forms that move about and eat, including insects, fish, birds, and so on.
He says, "But that's creatures!" He had the concepts. He'd just been describing them with slightly inaccurate words. Sigh.
angrymamapaws
24. Vegetarian Wannabe
I went to culinary school- and oddly, there were a few vegetarians and one vegan in the class where we cut up, cooked, and ate a bunch of meat. Most would skip dishes if they didn't meet their dietary restrictions.
But this one witch. She was twice the average age for the class (she was 45ish) and kept talking about how great it was to live off of plants and crap.
Yet, she didn't get why she was being stared at while eating the teriyaki salmon we made. The lady didn't think fish were animals and was still vegan even though she ate fish at least once a week.
She never believed me when I informed her she wasn't actually vegetarian and instead was pescatarian. She was pissed.
AtlasMaverick
25. Dad Of The Year
As a teenager, my siblings and I were playing 20 questions in the back seat of our truck. My father was driving, and one person chose a shark.
My father got really defensive, saying that we cheated on the first question as sharks were not animals. My siblings and I jaws dropped.
I had to explain to my 50+ father, who worked in game and fish law enforcement, that fish were, in fact, animals. He was so defensive.
GraceRunner4000
26. The Car Accident
When my wife and I were still just dating, she parked her car on the street opposite my house. A drunk driver hit and totaled her car.
The drunk's insurance kept saying that my wife was partially at fault because "It takes two people to have a car accident."
It took about 20 minutes to make them understand that the car was parked and turned off, no one was inside the car, the engine was cold, and the keys were in her purse in the house... Nationwide employs some dense people.
dwightgaryhalpert
27. Local Tea
I used to work in a tea shop. Here is a conversation that really happened. The customer asked, “Do you have tea from England? I only drink tea from England.”
I said, “Nope, I think you are confused. England does not have the right environment to grow tea. We do sell teas that are very popular in England, but we do not sell teas that are grown and made in England.”
The customer replied, “No, you are wrong. I have had tea in England. They drink it all the time.” I replied, “Yes, tea is very popular over there. But you have to understand the environment there is not good for growing tea. They import their tea to the country.”
The customer said, “Oh really, you expect me to believe that.” I said while trying to be calm, “Yes, various wars in England's past history were fought for goods like spices and teas. Why do you think that India was a part of their empire for so long? They liked their tea, among other things.”
The customer replied, “India is mostly deserted, and they can't grow tea.” I replied, “Actually, India is a pretty big country. They would have a lot of regions that would be perfect for growing tea. One tea that is popular in England is Darjeeling, which is from Darjeeling, India.”
The customer looked irritated and said, “Well, I only drink tea from England. If you don't have that, I will take my business elsewhere.”
Then I ended the conversation, “Alright, but they will give you the same answer as I gave you. England does not grow or produce tea. They import it. It's impossible to find it.”
gamerfangirl
28. Do The Math
I'm a member of one of those swap sites on Facebook where you sell used items to other members in a similar town or county. Most of the time, the people on these sites are not the brightest lights in the harbor.
Anyways, one idiot was trying to sell Tide Pods for laundry individually. They were selling them 1 for 25 cents or 5 for $1. This may seem ridiculous, but it's not.
Another person screenshotted their post and posted on the same site that this person was scamming people by tricking them into buying five, and that 5 for $1 was WAY worse of a deal than 1 for 25 cents.
I then commented on that post explaining the math that four at 25 cents per would be $1, so getting 5 for $1 was actually a better deal.
That person commented back, saying I was part of the scam and didn't know what I was talking about. As the old saying goes, you can't argue with stupid.
TheReviewMaster
29. Too Many Decimals
My friend, who I haven't seen in a while, recently visited from out of town. He was kind of dumb when we were younger, but now he's definitely gotten his crap together, sells health insurance, and makes good money doing it.
Anyway, though, we go out to grab dinner and beers once he arrives in town, and as we sign our checks to get out of there, I notice something strange about what he's writing.
Where you're supposed to write the "tip" and "total," he has numbers that look way too long from what I can tell, like six digits each. "How much are you leaving for the tip?" I ask as I lean over to check his writing.
Before he can respond, though, I noticed that for the total, say if the amount was "45.67", he's written "45.67.00" and for the tip, instead of writing something like "5.00" he's written "5.00.00"
So I point that out and chuckle, asking him why he does that. His response? "I just like to be exact." I tried to explain to him for the next minute or two why that wasn't more exact.
It's just mathematically wrong, confusing to a waiter, and makes him look like an idiot, but he just kept saying that he "likes to be exact," lol. I just let it go because I started feeling like I was berating him, and he was only in town for a couple of days.
mustXdestroy
30. No Flavor
I used to work at a fast food chain, and once, this maybe 25-30 y/o man came and ordered an orange slush. When I brought it out, he tasted it and made a nasty face, so I asked if he didn't like it, and he said he didn't like orange.
I asked him if he wanted a different slush, and he said I could just remove the orange.
I tried to explain to him that it would be just slush ice without the orange and again asked if he wanted something else at no charge.
He said no, bring me your manager. Guess what. My manager said the same thing to him as I did. He then proceeded to call the company and complain about me.
pussyteapot
31. Different Terms
As far as computers and the Windows operating system go, this turned into a huge and utterly ridiculous argument between myself and my mother (as our arguments usually were, but this is probably one of the stupidest).
I had to explain to her the difference between a file and a file folder. Like. She'd call a file folder a file because that's what the icon shows; it is a file!
This led to a number of extremely confusing attempts at computer assistance until we argued and hashed it out. It was so stressful.
Made more annoying by the fact that she's one of those people who has trouble admitting she's actually wrong about something. Which just made it all the more utterly frustrating.
darkguard01
32. Check The Calendar
I went to college in Alabama, which was dry on Sundays at the time (maybe still?). Anyway, woke up one Sunday with a mean hangover and wanted a bloody mary. I had the vodka, just needed the mix.
Went to the Rite Aid up the street, grabbed a bottle of Zing Zang, went to cash out, and the old woman behind the counter told me she couldn't sell me that on a Sunday.
I explained it had no alcohol in it, so she could. She said, "It's illegal to drink on Sundays." I was blown away and said, "It's illegal to sell alcohol on Sunday, not illegal to drink."
She wouldn't have it and told me I needed to "learn the law." So we got into a bit of an argument, and to prove my point, I grabbed a bottle of orange juice and said, "I could put vodka in this too, but you would sell me OJ, wouldn't you?"
She said, I kid you not, "Well, not anymore." Just....what the heck. Ran across the street to another store and bought the bloody mix with no problem. Came back, walked up to the door, started waving the mix at her, and gave her the bird. Ahh college.
alabamdiego
33. Magic Card
Worked at an electronics store where you could sign up for those credit cards with huge interest; this couple came in and wanted to buy a TV.
I ended up selling them a TV, stereo, and a bunch of other stuff, plus insurance. I was pretty surprised at how easy it was (I was only 16, and it was my first experience actually playing the salesman).
Well, the time came to pay, and he flashed the credit card he had signed up for at some earlier date, but it was rejected. I asked him how much money was left on it, and he looked like a giant question mark, so I called and checked, and there were only a few bucks left on it.
I broke the news to the guy, who looked even more confused and asked when more money would be put on the card. Apparently, he thought the store had given him some sort of magic card where money had just appeared.
I was pretty shocked that he was so oblivious to this. He could barely even fathom that he had to pay the money back with interest.
I was about to tell him he probably should take care of that first instead of finding a way to get all this stuff when my scumbag colleague stepped in and convinced him to just make his sister come down and sign up for one, too, so he could get his stuff.
Slartibartyfarti
34. Digest It
So I work for a big chain supermarket that used to be next door to a little family-run health food store. Rent went up, and the health food store had to shut down.
But my manager felt bad, so he let the 50-year-old father fax his paperwork through our fax machine. This guy had never used a fax machine before.
I had to switch between serving customers and slowly explaining to him how the fax machine worked as he got increasingly mad about the documents "not going through" because they came out after they were copied and sent.
Octoember
35. Same Earth
It was not my personal story, but a family member's that I thought was interesting. They worked at an information stand in Canada by the border at the time.
She would routinely see people coming across the border dressed in ski gear because they expected it to be snowing in Canada 24/7, even though it was summer.
But one day, the epitome of stupidity occurred. A woman came up to them and had a grin across her face from ear to ear. She looked them dead in the eye and said: "Wow!! I didn't know Canada had two moons!!"
Completely baffled as to what the woman meant. They asked her, "What do you mean by two moons?" And the lady pointed out the window. It was a white-hot air balloon.
ToastyBurns
36. Changing Conditions
I had to explain car air conditioning to a friend's girlfriend when we were about 21. My best friend dated a girl we went to high school with long distance for a while during college.
3 or 4 times, she and I car-pooled down to visit him. One such occasion was the middle of winter, and I was driving her car. She turned on the air conditioner when it was about 30 degrees outside.
I turned it off and explained that you shouldn't run air conditioning in the winter because it can cause the condenser to freeze. What happened next was a 15-minute argument about what air conditioning is.
I was explaining that air conditioning, in the context of a car, is a closed refrigerant coolant system, and running it in the winter serves no purpose.
She insisted I was wrong and air conditioning was just a system that "conditioned" air. I'm still not sure what she thought went on when you turned on the air conditioning.
But from what I gathered, she thought it meant the car just magically adjusted the humidity and mixed in fresh air with the hot air from the heater. Eventually, I just gave up. She was pre-med at the time, too.
murderboxsocial
37. Unlimited Funds
Back in high school, one of my closest friends' dad was a financial planner. He came to church one day to pick her up from an event, shaking his head.
He had to explain to a married couple in their early 20s that they were going broke because they were constantly writing bad checks and incurring fees.
They never checked their account balance and were baffled that the bank was demanding money from them and freezing their account.
The young wife assumed (and she handled the couple's finances) that as long as they had checks in the checkbook, then there was money in the bank, and the bank would honor the check.
Why else would the bank give them so many checks? Her husband didn't know any better either. He was in awe that two people with college degrees could be that stupid. He paid for them to attend a Dave Ramsey seminar and fervently hoped they would never reproduce.
ggfangirl85
38. New Fingers
I used to intern at a hospital and actually had to explain to a woman with two kids that fingers do not, in fact, grow back. Sigh.
She thought they worked like a lizard's tail. She still didn't believe me and refused treatment for her fingers with severe frostbite.
MDs said they'd either fall off and she'd be fine, or they would get necrotic. Well, we could see that the infection would eventually end her.
p4g0
39. On Hold
I work as a receptionist at a fairly large furniture store. A man calls the store asking about a bed. I said no problem, I'll transfer you to a salesperson.
Two minutes later, he calls back, furious because he asked for a salesperson and instead just heard music on the phone. The music that plays when you are on hold or your call is being connected.
I explained to him as clearly as I could that he would hear that music again as I transferred him to sales but that someone from sales would pick up within 5 seconds.
HE HANGS UP AGAIN. Calls back and yells at me as if I'm stupid. I tried to explain to him for like five minutes that our salespeople were out on the floor, not just hanging around my desk waiting to answer phone calls.
Eventually, I had to just leave him on the line (not even on hold, so as to not scare him off with the music - I just laid the phone down on the desk) and went onto the floor to find a salesperson I could bring back to take his call from the office, because this old man had no concept of having a call transferred.
milo_louis
40. Pregnant Rabbits
I was on a date with this girl, 19 years old. She is munching on some baby carrots and mentions how much she prefers baby carrots to big carrots.
I tell her that baby carrots aren't actually baby carrots but shaved big carrots and that they are picked from the same patch. Now, this is not the crazy part.
She looks at me and says, "Pick, what do you mean, picked?” I replied, "When they pick them out of the ground." Puzzled, she looks at me. "I thought carrots came from rabbits." Literally, I had no response.
EliteYager
41. The Fry
At a kitchen store, when discussing air fryers, my cousin mentioned that "if you own a fryer, you're fat," so I explained to her that the air fryers just blow hot air at your food. It's not actually frying anything, so it's healthier.
She replied, "Ya, but it's still a fryer, so it's still fattening." She couldn't grasp the concept that the OIL (of course, along with the actual food) is what makes a traditional fryer fattening.
So, removing the oil factor removes the fattening aspect. The action of FRYING doesn't make your food unhealthy. Still, she insisted.
1248853
42. Pay For It
Restaurant/bar employee for almost two decades. The amount of times I had to explain to someone that extra stuff costs extra just boggles my mind.
Do you want a bunch of extra cranberry juice on the side for your Long Beach? It's going to cost you extra.
Do you want a salad added to your meal? I'm not going back there and making you one for free; you have to pay for it.
One of the first things out of their mouths when told that is, "Someone else did it for me for free!" I learned to respond by asking them who the other person was so we could have a conversation with them about theft.
Kind_Of_A_Dick
43. Months Left The Group
My buddy in high school was a bit of a slow learner. didn't help that he was also kind of a goof-off. Anyway, grade 12 hits, and things start getting real, and he's suddenly worried about his grades.
He decided he wanted to improve, so he asked me to tutor him in history. So, our first session rolls around, and we start talking about 20th-century history.
Still, he's got no clue about the geography of European countries, and it's difficult to continue without knowing some basic geography, so we get the map out and start learning where countries are.
Then, as we're doing this, he goes, 'Hey, what are the months?' and I'm like, 'uhh, for a particular event or...?'
And he's all, 'No, the months. Like March, July, and stuff. how do they go?' Buddy, in grade 12, had paid so little attention in school that he didn't know the order of the months.
robotco
44. Melted Brain Cells
I used to work at Cold Stone, and one time, this lady ordered two smoothies and called back a few hours later because "her smoothies were watery."
I asked if she had kept them in the freezer because, you know, it's mostly ice, and even in the fridge, it might melt, and of course, she says, "They've just been sitting out on the table."
I had to explain to her that the ice melted, and she still had to give her free smoothies the next time she came in because, apparently, she got smoothies all the time, and that's never happened before.
BabysDad
45. The Moonlight
A woman I work with goes out for walks around the company campus during our breaks to stretch out her old legs. It’s our routine.
I already knew she wasn't the smartest peanut in the turd, but one day as we were walking at about 3 in the afternoon, the moon was out, and I said, “Wow, the moon looks really pretty.”
She paused for a moment as the gears turned in her mind, then said, "Wait, I thought the moon made it dark." I said uhh, you mean you thought the moon could only be out at night? She said, "No, I thought that like, that's what made it dark."
I had to explain to a 32-year-old woman that, no, the moon didn't suck up the light in the sky to make the night happen. This totally sounds like a made-up story, and I so wish it was. She's technically above me in the chain of command here.
mizzyman21