𤯠INCRĂVEL: 44 Things People Never Thought Theyâd Have To Explain To Another Adult đ˛
Most of us have heard the phrase, âThere is no question that is a silly questionâ. And while thatâs usually true, there are times when you canât help but wonder if some questions are a little, well, ridiculous. For instance, when Reddit user BlueCaracal posed the question, “Whatâs something so obvious you couldnât believe you had to explain it to another adult?” the internet responded in full force, sharing stories that ranged from amusingly clueless to downright shocking. Keep scrolling, Pandas, and brace yourselvesâthese questions might seem surprisingly obvious, but theyâre definitely worth a look.
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When COVID first hit the US and there were no real treatments for it or vaccines or anything, I caught it and got lung clots and had to spend a week in the hospital. Numerous people on the floor I was on died. The guy in the bed next to me had it and they had him under an oxygen tent. He fought with every single person that came in to check on him, refusing to believe that he had COVID. He thought literally everybody was lying to him about what was wrong with him.
He wound up dying about the fourth day I was there. To this day I hear people make comments that it doesn’t exist or never did or whatever dumb thing they have to say about it. I have to turn around and walk away from them or ignore them on whatever platform I’m on to avoid smacking them up beside the head.
I had to explain to my mom that my daughter was growing in my uterus and not my stomach so the hot sauce on my burrito wasnât going to cause her skin burns. I also explained if she were growing in my stomach, my stomach would certainly cause way worse burns than hot sauce.
It was then that I understood why the school nurse had to explain to me in 5th grade why I kept bleeding through my pants every month at school, and not my mom.
I worked tech support for an internet provider a few years back.
A woman calls in, complaining her wifi isnât working.
Go through the normal troubleshooting questions, whatâs your device, how are you connected, and finally âwhat can you see on your screen?â
Crazy woman (CW): itâs black
Me: how do you mean? Are you getting errors?
CW: the whole screen is black.
Me: have you turned the laptop on?
CW: I canât.
Me: âŚ. Why not?
CW: Iâve lost the charging cable
Me: okâŚuh, do you have another device I can help you connect with? Maybe a tablet or your phone?
CW: no, you need to get the laptop reconnected.
Me: âŚcan you go and buy another charging cable?
CW: no, you need to send me one.
Me: we donât supply themâŚalso we didnât supply you with your laptop, we just provide internet
CW: yes, and now youâre not providing me internet, so you need to fix it
40 mins this went on, as my team around me stared in incoherent disbelief that this woman couldnât understand why her internet provider couldnât connect wifi to a computer with now power.
I remember hanging up the phone and putting myself on break. My manager looked at me and told me to take a walk, while barely hiding her unrestrained giggles.
Whether itâs at a party, at work, or during a casual conversation, weâve all encountered situations where someone asks something that makes you want to pause and question the state of human knowledge.
Hereâs the thing: asking questions isnât badâpart and parcel of development and learning. None of us are born with all the knowledge in the world, and curiosity is an essential part of our lives. There are times, however, that people ask questions that seem to defy basic logic or common knowledge.
I was picking up Italian Liras one time (1999 – pre Euros) from a bank in Tennessee. The teller brought me the envelope. When I opened it to count the money, she looked at me with total surprise and asked, âDo other countries have different money?â A bank teller. đ¤Śđ˝ââď¸
That her power was shut off because she didn’t pay her electric bill for three straight months, and the letters on neon yellow paper from the power company were sent to warn her of this happening.
She thought she was legally entitled to free electricity because “it’s a requirement for human survival.”
Edit to add: She wasn’t in need. She worked a very well-paying job, and she enjoyed shopping for expensive things. This was *not* one of those situations where she needed assistance or mercy. She needed a foot lodged firmly in the backside, and the power company put on its boots.
You might find yourself sitting in a meeting when someone asks if the office will be open on Christmas Dayâdespite it being a national holiday. Or you may even be engaging in a conversation with one of your friends who, out of nowhere, asks whether brown cows give brown milk. You cannot help but blink at these questions, wondering what planet you are on.
But before we jump to conclusions, it is worth analyzing what makes such questions possible in the first place. There are situations where people are just credulous or ignorant about certain things. It could be, somehow, they never got the opportunity to know it, or perhaps theyâve been given wrong information.
I hope this isn’t too racy for this sub…
I had to explain to a grown (college-educated!) adult that no, a**l s*x does not “cause” AIDS. That no, if both parties are HIV-negative, they cannot “create” AIDS by engaging in this activity. NO, Daniel, that’s not how viruses work!
Other times, it could be possible they are nervous or distracted, leading them to ask something theyâd usually know the answer to. Weâve all had those moments when we asked something we later realized was a bit silly. Letâs say you finally get to see your sports idol, and out of excitement, you ask rather silly questions like, âDo you like sports?â
That the aztecs and incans are not interchangeable, they were in completely different parts of the americas, and that neither of them built the nazca lines. but especially not the aztecs, who were not in f*****g peru
this person kept trying to tell me it was “up to interpretation” like no its not!!! its geography
Volunteered in a charity shop. Lady came to the counter with a top and asked if I could look in the back for one of the same colour but a larger size. Tried to explain we don’t do that because we’re a charity shop. She insisted that other shops, like H&M, have done that for her. Wouldn’t take no for an answer.
Eventually I just went in the back for a few minutes, made a cup of tea for a co-worker, and came out saying we don’t have any. She got mad at that too.
Whatâs more interesting is how many people are afraid to ask questions because they donât want to appear stupid. The fear of looking foolish in front of others can stop us from seeking out the knowledge we need. In a way, this fear can be more damaging than asking an âobviousâ question. It hinders us from learning, growing, and understanding the world better.
When I worked at a doctors clinic, I had a lady on the phone wanting to book an appointment to have her flu shot. She specifically asked it to be a telephone appointment.
I could not believe that I had to explain to her that we cannot inject her through the phone.
I had to explain to 2 teenage girls (15 and 16) that the reason the candle went out was because they put the glass lid back on it’s jar. 1 of them said that fire can only be put out with water. I explained that fire needs oxygen and putting the lid back on it cut the supply. When they didnt understand after explaining a few times I had to explain it to them like toddlers. “Fire is hungry, so it eats the air. When all the air is gone, it goes to sleep. Bye bye fire.” The double “ohhhh” was too much.
P.S. The look on their mama’s face was so funny. She turned to me, threw her hands up, and said “I’ve failed.” In the most defeated tone. That poor woman.
Edit: I would like to point out that we did, in fact, have a serious talk to these girls about proper fire safety, and when to NOT use water on an open fire.
Consider a situation where youâre new at a job, and during the orientation, the presenter talks about âthe cloud.â You know you came across the phrase some weeks ago, but you canât place what it implies.
Everyone around you seems to know, so you hesitate to ask for clarification. Now since you were afraid to ask, it could potentially lead to bigger misunderstandings later on.
That dogs are artificially bred, and that there aren’t wild golden retrievers, wild chihuahuas, and wild Maltese just running about that we’re catching to make into pets.
My husband had to explain to a co-worker that she couldnât take a train from the U.S. to Europe. She insisted she had to because she didnât like flying.
In reality, making requests, even the simplest ones, should be allowed and even encouraged. Itâs easy to forget that at some point, everyone was ignorant of something.
The person who doesnât know what the cloud is might be an expert in a completely different field, with knowledge you donât possess. We all have gaps in our understanding, and the only way to fill them is by asking questions.
That no matter how much you might want to put a camo pattern on your walls, you (not the paint) have to determine what that pattern looks like and you will also have to purchase multiple cans of paint tinted differently because “camo” doesn’t come out of a can that way.
I had to explain to a restaurant worker that eggs are not dairy. Chickens do not have mammary glands. Someone who is allergic to dairy can eat eggs and chicken. Mayonnaise, containing eggs and oil, is therefore not dairy.Â
She was looking at me like I was the stupid one, the whole time.
As a matter of fact, these are some of the most successful people in the world; they got to where they are today because they did not care how crazy the questions they posed were. It is the quest for answersâfor more information, more detailâthat fosters purpose and new ideas.
I was amazed in my old workplace how many young adults, like early 20s or so, couldn’t tell the time from the wall clock.
I work in travel. I’ve had to explain time zones more than you’d believe. So, if you leave Sydney at 2pm and fly ~14 hours, crossing the international dateline, you arrive in LA at noon – about 2 hours “before you left.” I’ve watched this emoji 𤯠happen in real time.
Even if a question seems silly at first, itâs better to ask and learn than to remain ignorant. Life is full of mysteries, big and small, and the only way to solve them is by staying curious and never being afraid to ask.
So the next time someone asks you a question that makes you do a double take, just like the ones in this list, remember that weâre all just trying to figure things out. Embrace the moment, share your knowledge, and maybe even learn something new yourself.
I had to explain to a doctor’s receptionist from Michigan once that Canada was not located somewhere mysteriously “across the ocean?”, but rather across the border… from Michigan. My mom and I spent the car ride home in stunned silence.
That driving north meant the whole trip was uphill.
I laughed at her until I realised she meant it, ended up laughing at myself cos thereâs no way I was going to explain it to her.
That raw meat juices, especially that of chicken, should in no way come in contact with other foods.
I learned this in 8th grade home ec, so I was 13 years old.
I had to explain to a 40-year old that no, you can’t put grilled chicken back on an unwashed cutting board that still has raw chicken juices.
New England isn’t part of Europe (to three different people). Get your s**t together, Arizona public school system.
Used to work at a daycare. One day a little mouse entered the premises and caused an uproar until we caught and released it in the playground.Â
After the whole ordeal, one of my colleagues (who was the dumbest person I’ve ever met) said: “let’s hope it didn’t lay eggs anywhere!”Â
I was too stunned to speak and just stared at her, while my room leader/friend said, in the most done-with-this-s**t way: “Mice don’t lay eggs, .” and walked off.Â
EDIT: I love how so many people in these replies are trying to find a different interpretation of what she must have meant, or say that she must have been joking đ but no, unfortunately I have to tell you she was 100% of the opinion that mice lay eggs because she even doubled down about it later.
My bosses wife was learning how to use a computer. She typed in the numbers 1 to 9 and then asked how you typed in a number 10.
We were very diplomatic.
That you cannot give your child a âsmaller amountâ of medicine that is only to be given to an adult. Boy that was a stressful night of very close observation and many calls to the nurse/poison control line.
I had to explain to someone you can’t buy like two pounds of lunch meat and eat it for a month. The concept of things spoiling was new to him. To be fair, we were both college students and he was living alone for the first time.
I used to work at a coffee shop and had to explain what filling something halfway meant to a woman I was training. She didn’t understand the concept of half.
I had to explain to a 22 year old friend of mine when I was 18 what ovulation was. Weâre both women, she had no idea.
I had to explain to someone that New Mexico is in fact part of the United States, not a part of Mexico. I assume they failed Geography.
When you save a file on Windows, the save window actually lets you save the file into a particular folder. You don’t have to go into your recent items to find it and then move it to where you want it to be saved. This person had been working an office job at a computer for more than 5 years at that point
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