#1
(Honestly, though, thank you thank you thank you lady. You brought him in young, cute, and supremely adoptable and not a year and a half later, out of control and completely unsocialized from living in your yard. You did the right thing!).
#2
After what seemed like 20 minutes he says “Oh here it is. Someone misspelled your name. They put a y instead of an I”
Me: “That is the correct spelling”
Him: “No it isn’t! I know how to spell Smith. I am going to change it in our system it will only take me a second”
That was the day I realized I didn’t know how to spell my own name.
#3
“My last name is (last name)”
“Oh, you mean (mispronounces last name)”
“No, it’s pronounced (correct last name)”
“Well, in Russia its pronounced my way”
“...my last name isn’t Russian, it’s German.”
“Actually, I know it’s Russian and...blah blah blah (I stop listening at this point)”.
There have probably been instances in each of our lives where he has mumbled ‘Are you kidding me?’ or anything along those lines. Essentially, it’s a form of expressing surprise or disbelief over someone’s actions or words – just a fancy way of saying “are you being serious?” or “I can't believe this.”
The mentioned disbelief may be caused by a variety of factors, as today’s list illustrates. In fact, in it you’ll find the experiences various people had, to which the only sane reaction was ‘are you kidding me?’, just how weird or straight-up foolish they were.
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#6
Me: Chicken noodle.
Customer: Oh is that vegan?
Me: . . .
While you could write off many of these instances to people being sheer stupid, we shouldn’t generalize about anyone this way, especially when we know so little. After all, one event does not paint an accurate picture of someone.
In fact, writing off anyone as completely stupid is… well, rather foolish. People are not two-dimensional beings that can be viewed on a “black or white” scale – the grey place exists too.
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#8
He was promptly blocked.
#9
'whats states?' he gurgled back at me.
'states, like the United States.' Blank look. 'of America.'
'The what?'
'the USA?'
'That's not a real place though.'
'So where did you think the UK is then?'
'IN America' (huge emphasis on the preposition, as if I were being wilfully obtuse.)
Edit: student was British and in Year 9 (so about 13-14).
What we mean by that is that if someone is knowledgeable in one area, it doesn’t mean they’re completely clueless in the other. For instance, if I’m interested in cars and other vehicles, I might not know about them a lot, but I might be knowledgeable in other areas that are more fascinating for me.
What’s more interesting about it is the fact that most of the time, “stupidity” comes from ignorance, and thus cannot really be called the first term. Looking at the very rigid definition of ignorance, it is “the lack of knowledge, education, or awareness.” And while that explains the idea, it kind of lacks the point of it usually being something that’s chosen.
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#11
This grown man thought Potatoes were from animals.
Edit: we were eating fries, he was clearly talking about the vegetable.
#12
His exact words were "it's not my job to teach you the materials".
By this, we mean that a lot of times people choose to ignore something, hence the term’s name. Like with the mentioned example, you might choose not delve into certain topics because they do not interest you. But interest isn’t the only driving force behind ignorance. Selfishness can be too.
Like this study showed, sometimes people deliberately choose not learn something, just so they could have an excuse to act selfishly, like when a person ignores the information about the problematic origins of the products they buy, just because they really want them. Basically, you choose to close your eyes in certain moments; that’s what ignorance is.
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#14
A patient was brought into ED with a fresh, poisonous snake bite. The pharmacy was called to prep the anti venom once the species was identified.
The pharmacy then REFUSED to prepare the mixture and insisted that because the patient was ill equipped to pay for the therapy, (and that they were to be transferred to another hospital) it would be a waste and an undo expense to give them anything.
The provider, who insisted the pharmacy was wrong, had to make several demands which were all ignored. The patient was withheld the therapy and undeservingly had an increased risk to their life.
Finally, the CFO made the “call” to allow the medicine to be given—at which point the patient was already in transit to another facility.
Thanks, for profit hospitals!
#15
Me: “I’d like to exchange this game because I meant to get it for Steam but accidentally bought it for gog.”
G2A: “Send us the key so we can verify it’s unredeemed.”
Me: *sends key*
G2A: “We can’t refund it because you looked at the key.”
Got my refund via PayPal, never buying from g2a again.
Others argue that it can be a rather spiritual practice. When you ignore something, you have more time and mental power to magnify something else, which can be a positive thing. Essentially, if properly applied, ignorance combined with magnification can lead to one’s joy and creativity. Sounds a bit like our given example previously, doesn’t it?
So, what we want you to carry out of this piece is that while sometimes people do foolish things, it does not define them. That means that while all those examples you’ll read in today’s listicle might just be one-of examples. Or they might not be, but we don’t know these people enough to make assumptions.
Have you ever witnessed anything that made you murmur, “‘Are you kidding me?’ Please, share!
#16
One winter we had hand soaps with a cartoon polar bear and penguin on the label, wearing scarves and sledding or something. I had a lady call and shout at me for nearly an hour about how inaccurate that is, since polar bears and penguins don’t live in the same place. She demanded that I tell her why we put them on the label together.
I didn’t last much longer after that.
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#18
The second "are you kidding me" moment came when she got pissed and wanted to talk to our manager because we wouldn't call apple and make them try to download the data. She told my boss she had pictures from her daughters graduation and granddaughters' birth on it and (he usually silently ties us into any conversations people want to have about us) he told her she should consider reading the message about personal data that comes up every time she logs into a company computer.
A few weeks ago target called us to tell us that they found her iPad in the former store manager's office, he apparently wiped the data on it and was using it for himself. He forgot to remove the property control sticker from the back though.
#19
I get confused and ask, “Do you even know where the prostate is?”
“Yeah it’s in your balls!”
Years later I still remind him of this.
#20
A REAL flat earther.