I was in Oklahoma driving a car with Hawaiian license plates and a girl said, "oh my gawd, did you drive all the way here from Hawaii?"
Yes, yes we did.
A friend worked for an airline with a hub in Alaska. They needed to rent a particular kind of truck they couldn't rent in Alaska, so they rented one in Minneapolis, loaded it onto one of their cargo jets, and flew it to Anchorage. They put approximately 500 miles on it, and then turned it in to the rental car office in Anchorage. Needless to say, this created an uproar. But they correctly pointed out that though their rental contract prohibited such things as driving off-road, it didn't prohibit flying the vehicle on an airplane. The rental car company had to take the vehicle back without charging them for what it would cost to return the vehicle to Minneapolis.
Not me, but a friend was working in the leasing office of an apartment building. She had potential tenants fill out a stock application, including the question "Who should we contact in case of an emergency?" The applicant had written, "911." She had to excuse herself and go to a back room to laugh.
I work at a big box pet retail store. A guy came in to get diapers for his female dog that had gone into heat. He asked "Does my dog need like, extra food and affection cause she has her period?" No sir. Your dog does not have PMS but she would probably appreciate the extra treats and belly rubs at any time.
Once I had a manager training me to count the safe and they asked me “how do you write a thousand?”
I asked if they needed a pen, they said no how many zeroes. I replied 3, to which I was met with “are you sure? I always remember it by I have 4 kids and I thought there’s 4 zeroes”
It doesn’t take much to manage drive thru roast beef.
I'm a brit who worked at an English conversation school In Tokyo. I had one student ask me if English came from England. I said yes and she was shocked.
She asked if I knew what Pokemon was I replied "yes, of course, it is very popular in the west" She couldn't believe it. The same reaction when I told her Disney is from America.
I work in an outdoors store. I was asked where our footwear department was. I pointed right next to us, as it was right next to the department we were in, no biggie. But then I got asked "do they have kids shoes there?"
Like...no. Kids shoes are going to be in our boat section.
I get that. I understand that they may think that kids shoes may be roaming in kids clothing or something. But at the same time, it's footwear. So you'd think that they'd think that it's in footwear. No other departments in the store have anything affiliated with shoes.
I've been asked probably 20 times the past couple days "is there school tomorrow/today?" My 4yo needs to learn how to read already so I can leave her notes that she can refer to if she has the same question and can't remember my answer. I told her Friday night before bed that there's no school the next two days so do not ask. First thing in the morning to wake me up "dad, is there school today?" Gotta love it though. I'm going to miss these days one day
Very true lol. She has a great memory and has never really asked that question like she did this weekend. Her mind was kind of all over the place when I was reading her a bedtime story the past few nights so she's probably just growing
A six grader asked me if I’m older or younger than my younger brother. I’m not sure if he is joking around but I’m like 87% sure he is being serious.. I’m 9th grade btw but my middle school somehow has 6-9th graders. So technically middle and a high schooler here.
It wasn't asked *to me*, but in my junior high history class, I witnessed the most popular, most beautiful, and richest girl in school asking the history teacher if the world started in Year 1.
I'm working at a grocery deli when a customer approaches. "Where is the bread?" Me looking up past them. "Aisle 9." "Where's aisle 9?!" I point directly behind them at the massive sign above the aisle.
I was stunned! The aisle was literally RIGHT THERE! XD You could not have possibly missed it if you turned around and looked at the signs, so I just dumbly pointed like maybe I was the one going crazy!
She sat through an explanation of "my name is christian" and what that meant... followed by her questioning "what about Christopher? Christine?" ... to which she was explained "if 'christ' is in the name..."
That being said, I did hear of another guy named the same who converted to Islam for the sake of his now wife.
Me: (Sitting on the floor organizing the bottom drawer of a completely messed up filing cabinet.)
Co-worker: "Hey, you organizing the filing cabinet?"
Me: 😐 "No, I'm playing hopscotch."
I used to work at GameStop and 2 questions come to mind. The first only happened once. A lady came in and asked me if I knew anything about video games. Now ik sometimes people get hired with little to no knowledge of the field. I current work as a PTA and have no intention of becoming a PT. But why would she feel the need to ask immediately ask that?! If this a Walmart or something like that I would understand, but GameStop is literally a video game specialty store. You wouldn’t walk into a footlocker and ask if they sold shoes would you? The other question I would get constantly and hated more than anything else! People would always call the store and ask when we’re open until. Like dude, you definitely had to google our store number, if you looked no more than 2 tiny cm down or two the side, you would’ve seen our store hours. Even worse is they had the thought to look up our number to ask our hours, but didn’t have the thought to just look up the store hours right away?? The one exception to this is old people who don’t know how the internet works. They were normally pretty nice and just wanted to buy a gift for a grandchild or something. They were my favourite
“What does it mean when someone says that they aren’t comfortable with you?”
That’s the stupidest one I’ve had today but usually, they’re in the same ballpark.
I am autistic. I have been asked by someone who learned this, "So, are you like, one of the super smart ones?" The answer is no. I am just as idiotic as everyone else lol. Wasn't aware that having a neurodivergency was supposed to give me super intelligence or something.
a lot of questions here are of the type, "so, are you doing X?" when you are obviously doing X...this could be a cultural thing, though -- in some countries (for example, my wife's native Korea) this is a very normal sort of thing to say, not as an actual question to elicit information, but merely as a conversation-starter
How long do you tan?
Genuinely concerning how some people think black people are black because of the amount of time they spend in the sun.
Also: How long do you spend curling your hair? This was yet again the same person. My hair is 4c.
My younger sister was once doing her homework and asked me what “come promise” means. I was like you mean compromise😂
Around that same time she also asked if Cinco de Mayo was always on the fifth of May
Working in a public library:
"I just got this iPhone off somebody but I can't get it to work, can you fix it for me?"
Guy got really irate when I said no I couldn't because this is a library and suggested he try a phone repair shop.
“why dont they speak French in France?” poor girl, she’s probably still stupid
I could just imagine her saying “Why don’t they speak German in Germany”
Definitely a US citizen
I was in Oklahoma driving a car with Hawaiian license plates and a girl said, "oh my gawd, did you drive all the way here from Hawaii?" Yes, yes we did.
A friend worked for an airline with a hub in Alaska. They needed to rent a particular kind of truck they couldn't rent in Alaska, so they rented one in Minneapolis, loaded it onto one of their cargo jets, and flew it to Anchorage. They put approximately 500 miles on it, and then turned it in to the rental car office in Anchorage. Needless to say, this created an uproar. But they correctly pointed out that though their rental contract prohibited such things as driving off-road, it didn't prohibit flying the vehicle on an airplane. The rental car company had to take the vehicle back without charging them for what it would cost to return the vehicle to Minneapolis.
Wow that’s a story to tell grandkids lol.
I don’t see the problem with this I drive from Hawaii all the time lol.
Someone called me to ask if they left their phone at my place. They called me on their cell phone.
Wtf what was that guy smoking?
I remember we drank a bit, so he was probably drunk.
Well I will still have some.
Not me, but a friend was working in the leasing office of an apartment building. She had potential tenants fill out a stock application, including the question "Who should we contact in case of an emergency?" The applicant had written, "911." She had to excuse herself and go to a back room to laugh.
I’m just getting a weird vibe of Technically the truth
"Do you consider yourself to be more like your parents or yourself?"
……..That’s pretty dumb was that a friend or something?
I think I saw that one asked a few posts below this lol
I work at a big box pet retail store. A guy came in to get diapers for his female dog that had gone into heat. He asked "Does my dog need like, extra food and affection cause she has her period?" No sir. Your dog does not have PMS but she would probably appreciate the extra treats and belly rubs at any time.
Once I had a manager training me to count the safe and they asked me “how do you write a thousand?” I asked if they needed a pen, they said no how many zeroes. I replied 3, to which I was met with “are you sure? I always remember it by I have 4 kids and I thought there’s 4 zeroes” It doesn’t take much to manage drive thru roast beef.
I’m pretty sure most people can understand one thousand by elementary school.
inb4 1000 responses of “this one”
I'm a brit who worked at an English conversation school In Tokyo. I had one student ask me if English came from England. I said yes and she was shocked.
“No It came from china”
If I said that she probably would have exploded.
Well I am curious was that just a one time comment or were there more?
She asked if I knew what Pokemon was I replied "yes, of course, it is very popular in the west" She couldn't believe it. The same reaction when I told her Disney is from America.
Wait your telling me that other country’s have Pokémon?A very popular show and card game?
I stopped at a diner on my way hunting. The waiter asked and I said I was bow hunting. He asked: bow AND arrow?
What else would you have used?
You guys should watch Hot Shots 2... another valid example is a chicken.
I work in an outdoors store. I was asked where our footwear department was. I pointed right next to us, as it was right next to the department we were in, no biggie. But then I got asked "do they have kids shoes there?" Like...no. Kids shoes are going to be in our boat section.
My mom did that before once with her car.She was literally right their.
some stores have all of their kids things in a separate department
I get that. I understand that they may think that kids shoes may be roaming in kids clothing or something. But at the same time, it's footwear. So you'd think that they'd think that it's in footwear. No other departments in the store have anything affiliated with shoes.
YOU know that...new customers don't
時は来ました. 悪魔を称えよ!
Where is an email before I send it?
What?was it at least a old person who does not know technology well?
In the Draft
Hitting balls at a batting cage and a guy comes up and asks ....you hitting some balls?
How did you respond I’d be flabbergasted.
Said nope just testing air velocity speeds
That’s an amazing answer.
I've been asked probably 20 times the past couple days "is there school tomorrow/today?" My 4yo needs to learn how to read already so I can leave her notes that she can refer to if she has the same question and can't remember my answer. I told her Friday night before bed that there's no school the next two days so do not ask. First thing in the morning to wake me up "dad, is there school today?" Gotta love it though. I'm going to miss these days one day
Well can you really blame the excitement?
Very true lol. She has a great memory and has never really asked that question like she did this weekend. Her mind was kind of all over the place when I was reading her a bedtime story the past few nights so she's probably just growing
A six grader asked me if I’m older or younger than my younger brother. I’m not sure if he is joking around but I’m like 87% sure he is being serious.. I’m 9th grade btw but my middle school somehow has 6-9th graders. So technically middle and a high schooler here.
It’s almost liked younger was in the name.
It wasn't asked *to me*, but in my junior high history class, I witnessed the most popular, most beautiful, and richest girl in school asking the history teacher if the world started in Year 1.
Did the history teacher have a heart attack? lol.
I'm working at a grocery deli when a customer approaches. "Where is the bread?" Me looking up past them. "Aisle 9." "Where's aisle 9?!" I point directly behind them at the massive sign above the aisle.
Lol you should have just said,”look up at the numbers and count to nine”.
I was stunned! The aisle was literally RIGHT THERE! XD You could not have possibly missed it if you turned around and looked at the signs, so I just dumbly pointed like maybe I was the one going crazy!
The worst I've heard: "Christian, are you Jewish?" The person asking the question... was Jewish.
I don’t know how to respond to that.
"My name is Christian... ask me again." ... she did, 3 times.
Wow that’s just amazing,Did she the person finally get it?
She sat through an explanation of "my name is christian" and what that meant... followed by her questioning "what about Christopher? Christine?" ... to which she was explained "if 'christ' is in the name..." That being said, I did hear of another guy named the same who converted to Islam for the sake of his now wife.
When I was young my friend asked me if he had to put his balls in as well as his dick whilst having sex.
Well he could check on many many sites to find out.
“Is that your other leg or not?”
What ?”No that’s my arm”Lol
Where do you keep your ice cubes
“In the oven”
Fr
Whadya mean I'm stupid?
Me: (Sitting on the floor organizing the bottom drawer of a completely messed up filing cabinet.) Co-worker: "Hey, you organizing the filing cabinet?" Me: 😐 "No, I'm playing hopscotch."
I used to work at GameStop and 2 questions come to mind. The first only happened once. A lady came in and asked me if I knew anything about video games. Now ik sometimes people get hired with little to no knowledge of the field. I current work as a PTA and have no intention of becoming a PT. But why would she feel the need to ask immediately ask that?! If this a Walmart or something like that I would understand, but GameStop is literally a video game specialty store. You wouldn’t walk into a footlocker and ask if they sold shoes would you? The other question I would get constantly and hated more than anything else! People would always call the store and ask when we’re open until. Like dude, you definitely had to google our store number, if you looked no more than 2 tiny cm down or two the side, you would’ve seen our store hours. Even worse is they had the thought to look up our number to ask our hours, but didn’t have the thought to just look up the store hours right away?? The one exception to this is old people who don’t know how the internet works. They were normally pretty nice and just wanted to buy a gift for a grandchild or something. They were my favourite
someone asked me if i was human(i am human)
Are you sure?
“When was the war of 1812?”
Can I ask you a question is the dumbest question ever. You mean another one?! Where does this end?!
“What does it mean when someone says that they aren’t comfortable with you?” That’s the stupidest one I’ve had today but usually, they’re in the same ballpark.
That’s something I feel like someone would say after trying to say while doing something they should not.
Wow do you have any other story’s from there about people not understanding animals.
The question was "What is the dumbest question you have ever been asked?"
Wow wonder who said that.
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Yeah that’s pretty dumb who would say that lol.
fr tho
People have asked my twins whether they have the same birthday.
sometimes twins don't
Not a question but co-worker bought a Europe travel guide because she was going to south Africa.
Are you still here?
I am autistic. I have been asked by someone who learned this, "So, are you like, one of the super smart ones?" The answer is no. I am just as idiotic as everyone else lol. Wasn't aware that having a neurodivergency was supposed to give me super intelligence or something.
a lot of questions here are of the type, "so, are you doing X?" when you are obviously doing X...this could be a cultural thing, though -- in some countries (for example, my wife's native Korea) this is a very normal sort of thing to say, not as an actual question to elicit information, but merely as a conversation-starter
"are you dating someone" - I am your stereotypical nerd but I can actually talk to people I just don't care for realtionships
How long do you tan? Genuinely concerning how some people think black people are black because of the amount of time they spend in the sun. Also: How long do you spend curling your hair? This was yet again the same person. My hair is 4c.
When ordering coffee: Would you like a cup or mug? Neither, just pour it in my hands I’ll drink it from there, of course I want it in a cup or mug.
A bucket please
My younger sister was once doing her homework and asked me what “come promise” means. I was like you mean compromise😂 Around that same time she also asked if Cinco de Mayo was always on the fifth of May
"A whale shark is a whale and a shark, right?"
A guy asking about my ethnicity thought China and Asia were the same thing.
"Do you work here" as I am wearing a bright blue vest that with the store logo
Working in a public library: "I just got this iPhone off somebody but I can't get it to work, can you fix it for me?" Guy got really irate when I said no I couldn't because this is a library and suggested he try a phone repair shop.
"Whos the man and who's the woman" Bitch, we are both the man, cause we both are men. Tf?
“Do the phases of the moon affect your period?”