Hey Pandas, What Is The Stupidest Thing Anyone Has Ever Said To You?

One of my first jobs was as a cashier for a local grocery store. A woman came up to me holding an apple, and asked in a demanding voice, "is this apple vegetarian?". I said it's an organic apple, of course it is. She sneered, and said, "how can it be vegetarian if it's not a vegetable?!". Ugh. Face palm

I once got told that period cramps couldn't be worse than growing pains >:(

Ok, I'll start.

One time someone asked me if my friend spoke Asian.
(Probably not the stupidest thing anyone has ever said to me but it's definitely up there.)

This is a whole entire conversation that is just incredibly stupid. Buckle up.
School counselor: Hello Happi Doggi! This is a get to know you meeting. Tell me about yourself.
Me:*signs the only thing I know* I have selective mutism, do you mind sharing first?
Counselor: Happi Doggi?
Me:*signs again*
Counselor: I only have 10 minutes with you, please speak up.
Me: *tries to leave*
Counselor: Sit down
Me: *tries to speak but I’m having an sm attack*
Counselor: Why don’t you trust me? I’m here to help!
Me:*takes out school iPad and types, I have sm.*
Me:*shows ipad*
Counselor:Get out, I don’t tolerate that attitude!
Me:???
Counselor: Sassy mouth, really?

I told you it was stupid.

Climate Change isn't real. Covid isn't real.

Not stupid in itself but because of who said it.

I was applying for a master in animal behaviour and the teachers asked me to send them some paper that i wrote from my previous degree. So I sent them one that I was quite proud of about the Permian extinction (a extinction around 250my ago). Its the period of time before the Triassic (more famous).

I went to meet the coordinators of the master and one of them was very upset about the paper "because I didnt mention mammals. Why didnt I mention mammals?". Now this woman was supposedly a mammal expert so I was very shocked. I told her that I didnt mention them because mammals appeared in the triassic, so after the extinction (actually i mentioned them at the end but i guess that she didnt read that far). She didnt believe me until the other teacher confirmed it.

I mean it is totally normal to not know when mammals evolved. But if you are supposedly a "mammal expert" and you are grading a paper perhaps you should know that? Or at least google it?

Someone at work to me- You don’t “look” married! This was said in a condescending way!
I mean, what do you do to “look” married! Get my face branded or get a tattoo on head or something!

I’m female, and have a twin brother.
People ask me if we’re identical.

I was born and raised in Italy, moved to the States in my early 20s, so I still have an accent. 😊

While their thought process very endearing, it never ceases to amaze me when people ask me where I'm from:

Them: I hear an accent, where are you from?
Me: Rome
Them: Rome, Georgia?
Me: Rome, Italy 🤗
Them: Oh cool! Do you happen to know such such?
Me: Doesn't ring a bell 🤔...

(Rome is about 4 million people... And I'm an introvert 😂)

1. You are going to hell because you are not (insert any religion)

2. You are selfish because you don't want children.

3. This might sound stupid but... (they are indeed stupid)

1 Space was created by Disney to further the hoax of space/earth being round. He was dead serious, and he quoted “his own brain after much research” as his source. I wish I was kidding.

2 You shouldn’t wear a seatbelt because, in the event of a crash, you’re better off being thrown out of the car than being trapped in it.

3 You can only get covid-19 if you get bitten by someone who had it.

SO LIKE SO STUPID

I'm a manager at dunkin. A few minutes after we just opened, a guy pulled up to the speaker and I said "hi. what can I get for you" and he goes "hey, are you open?"

I responded with "If we weren't, we wouldn't be speaking right now"

6 y.o. me: *looking at book about otters* 😃

Some teenager: Oh look they're holding hands! 🤗

6 y.o. me (animal nerd): They do that so they don't float away from each other while they sleep. 🙂

Some teenager: No, I think they are taking a bath. 🙃

6 y.o. me: 🤨

A girl I lived with was waiting for her water to boil in the kitchen. I noticed she had the burner on low. When I asked her “Why is it on low?” She said she didn’t want to burn her water.

She also thought cheese came from chickens.

A Karen once told me that I could not 'buy the groceries' because I was in front of her in the line. wtf?!

“Is pink panther a cougar?”

When my daughter (now 8) was about 3, she loved Batman and had a little Batman figure she carried around like most kids use a stuffed toy or blankie. One time, we were at the laundromat, and I struck up a conversation with another customer. We were just chatting about this and that until she noticed that my daughter had this Batman toy. She asked me why my daughter had that toy instead of a baby doll. I didn't really think anything of the question, so I just shrugged and said that it's what she wanted. I mentioned that my husband and I are both into gaming and science fiction and fantasy, so she probably picked it up from us. This woman got kind of a pinched look on her face and said that parenting like that is why we have a "trans problem." I was so taken aback by the way she just blurted that statement that I couldn't even respond.

"Covid is fake."

Life’s too short, you two should get married.

Uncle Frank, you were an idiot.

I said it to someone actually, so I was in kindergarten and had a “boyfriend” and we were talking at recess and a ladybug landed in his hand and he said “look a bee landed on my hand!” and I'm just like “ok so if you can't tell the difference between a bee and a ladybug you can't be my boyfriend”