50 Things People Never Thought They’d Have To Explain To Another Adult

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 “smaller amount” 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.

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated and Italy is not a town in France. Same guy. My sister dated him for far too long.

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. We’re both women, she had no idea.

I had to explain to a fully grown adult that yes...your car's keyless entry remote does indeed have a battery in it just like a TV remote and yes the button stopped working because the battery is dead and you need to replace it. I also had to tell him that if you're going to buy huge bags of dry dog food and keep it in your garage which you leave open most of the time...you might want to actually close the bag and maybe even put the closed bag in a container with a lid instead of letting it sit completely open and then always wondering why the dog food is full of bugs, spoils fast and attracts rats and raccoons.

I wish I could say he was a super brilliant engineer or something but yeah...no.

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.

Incremental tax brackets. a dude at my work thought he was going to make less money if he got a raise

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

Whales don’t lay eggs.