57 Unbelievable Instances Of Grown Adults Displaying Zero Understanding Of Everyday Life Concepts

A former friend who basically has his extremely loaded parents (for context, his dad's house is right across the street from Stanford University) throwing money at all his issues. I'm estimating his dad has spent at least seven figures on propping him up since he graduated college. He claims to have mental issues, but it's very apparent some of these events were staged to keep the gravy train rolling in from the Bank of Mom and Dad. He has a master's degree and basically has zero concept of operating in the real world. He's 41 years old, chronically online, and eats total trash (99% fast food).

I cut him out of my life after he stole my phone and bragged about it on Facebook. He forgot to block me, and even if he did, 70+ of our mutuals would have told me anyway. Several people I know threatened to physically beat him up if they ever saw him in public.

When I was 20 I dated a guy. Used his bathroom, asked why his shower was empty. He told me he used to have a bar of soap but eventually it got really small and completely disappeared and “that’s dumb.”

Reader, I dated him for 2 years. He was a line cook. WTAF.

My ex husband's brother. This unfortunate young man is sound of mind, but because he was raised so poorly, he will never be able to work. My ex Mil "homeschooled" him, but only gave him enough education so that he can do basic things. He has maybe a 2nd grade education. He was never allowed to play with other children, he was never taught how to ride a bike and physical activity was not encouraged. He's a nice enough person but he will never be able to work, have a family or contribute to society. He was basically born so he could be my ex Mil's pet. I told my ex husband that he will have to be responsible for his brother once his parents pass away, and he should do something now rather than later. Like everything else I said to him, it went in one ear and out the other.

Someone I know barely ever washes their hands, even after going to the toilet or taking the trash out, but refuses to touch the buttons in the elevator. It's probably better for all of us.

I used to work at LAX airport doing what is now performed by TSA. The stories I could tell...

One in particular was about a very well-dressed man who was wearing a suit that easily cost $500 or more. (This was in 1973.) He REEKED of urine!

Im a pediatric nurse. There are so, so many. One that sticks out is a mom who had no idea what constipation was.

I had to tell a former employee in the nicest way possible that they really need to wash the fresh cat urine stains out of their white uniform shirt before coming in, or at the very least maybe don’t wear clothing with bright yellow, hot stinky pee stains on it.
It happened more than once. They seemed totally unaware until I said something.

Girl I went to college with had been kicked out by her parents as a teenager (she lived with foster parents and had some kind of scholarship) and apparently didn’t know why washing your clothes is important even if your body is clean. It didn’t help that she had an extremely limited amount of money because she was basically homeless and laundry quarters were a luxury. 

We all pooled our laundry quarters for one big wash and dry but it wasn’t enough. .

I took a friend hiking and they didn't know your heart was supposed to beat all fast like that.

There was a woman at the gym who wore the same workout outfit daily for at least 2 months, did not launder the clothes and did the stair master for an hour daily. Pungent doesn't begin to describe the odor, one could smell her when she walked in the door.

In med corps school in the navy there was a girl that smelled so bad and always had oily hair that one day after several talk attempts and her refusing to shower the girls literally dragged her into the showers and cleaned her because they couldn’t stand smelling her.

Edited for spelling.

18 year old recruit in my basic training unit was from the deep swamps of Louisiana... not only was he almost impossible to understand, I seriously think the boots he got issued were his first pair of shoes beyond cheap flip-flops. Guys was literally the target audience for all of the ridiculous (to most of us) "taking care of yourself" stuff they covered at the beginning of basic.

I used to work in a lab. A coworker of mine “sweat too much in gloves” so he just opted to not wear them….even when opening and pouring urine samples. He hardly washed his hands. Management knew and never addressed it.

Someone once argued to me that brushing one's teeth was an unnecessary intervention because plaque forms a *protective patina* on the teeth. Regular dental cleaning is aparently just a cash grab because modern dentistry didn't really come into common practice until after WW2.

So bid smelly joe (not his real name) didn’t like basic hygiene. 
My wife used to work in a video game rental store when we were dating years ago and big smelly joe would come in daily and just peel the paint off the walls with his rank smell. 
It was Halloween and big smelly joe was at an age where dressing up and going door to door turns creepy, but that didn’t stop him. He was too lazy to get a costume so he just painted his face blue (like the blue man group) and came into the store to the horror of my wife and her coworkers. The kicker to this story is that for whatever reason big smelly joe didn’t come into the store for another 8 weeks (around xmas) and when my wife was checking him out at the cash she noticed that his entire hairline still had blue paint all in it (from Halloween) 😬 .

A sad one. Vocational Training for young adulte with no other Option.

Young lad, midtown, quite intelligent, but was raised as pet (got food, clean clothes, but was never in a store to get the choice, doesn't know his show size or how to use shoelaces).

He was asked what vegetables he does know. He couldn't think of any. I asked after the test: what have you eaten today, beside of meat and potatoes? He answered: tomatoes, broccoli, spinach, carrots and corn. A guy almost 20 years old wasn't familiar with vegetable as a a word.

Former housemate in a student houseshare. We all knew that she'd been raised as Mummy and Daddy's Little Princess but we didn't realise how much until she had a row with her boyfriend and didn't know how to start an approach to apologise to him. I suggested that maybe she could start by taking him a mug of tea. "Yes!" she said, followed by "How do you make tea?" I was flabbergasted because we're British! We come into the world knowing how to make tea! I can't stand the stuff but I can still turn out a decent cuppa.

It turned out that she'd never actually made a cup of tea herself, even though she drank it. If her boyfriend wasn't home to make one for her then she simply drank milk, water or pop.

So many people doesnt know that for cows to produce milk they need to have given birth recently. Just like any other mammal.

I heard someone telling Kids he had to look after: "no no you dont have to wash your hands when peeing, only for nr.2" i was quite shocked after i heard that, and luckily was swiftly able to correct him...

A gal I worked with was a direct decendant of Mexicans, grew up in the southern tip of Texas on the border, and asked me "is Spanish from spain?".

I thought she was joking. She had a lady Guadeloupe tattoo. I jokingly said "are you gonna ask why Mexicans are Catholic too?"

She had no idea. I was mind blown. She was 21.