"Is This Real Water?": 45 Of The Dumbest Things People Have Ever Been Asked

-can you stay overtime?

-am I getting paid extra?

-you are already getting paid a salary

-I get paid for 40 hours a week.

-do it for the company

-what does the company do for me?

-it gives you a job

-I work for money. It's business. The company keeps me because it's profitable for the company.



Never work for free, kids.

Client called at 8am, livid, and said "You guys are a terrible company that can't even build a calendar app right, I tried to make a booking for 30 February and couldn't even find it. Tell me how do I make a booking for 30 Feb if it only displays till 29 Feb?"

Her: Whats the longest 5k you ever ran?

Me: 5k

Her: I thought there were longer ones?

Me: Yeah, 8k, 10k, half marathon, etc

Her: so the longest 5k you ever ran was a half marathon?

Me: what the f**k is happening.

Was living in my spouses deceased grandparents house. Had a phone call:
Caller: may I speak to Mr. deceased?
Me: uhh no I’m sorry he passed away.
Caller: may I speak to Mrs. diseased then?
Me: she died recently too.
Caller: Well then when you you expect them back.
Me: Hopefully no time soon!!

I am quite tall in comparison to the average height of where I live.

A coworker: "Don't you think you are being a bit inconsiderate, being so tall?"

I still don't know what they were trying to say.

_as I help my 94 year old granddad set up his walker next to the car, my 81 year old grandma and her two crutches_

Whyyyyy are you parked in the disabled spot?

It's for the nice views, a*****e.

Person: "I can't move to England, I don't even know what language they speak!"

Me: "English... England... English..."

Person: "Are you sure?".

Was the IT admin for a small company at the time. The power went out, as happens occasionally. The secretary rang my phone and asked me if the phones were working. She did not say she was testing to see, but asked if they were working. over. the. phone.

"Can you take off your glasses?"

"Yes... I can?" *Takes them off*

"I never knew you can take glasses off"

I was talking to someone and mentioned that I had visited Japan the previous year.

"Oh, is that where Japanese people come from?"

I was taken aback for like 3 seconds before I stammered out a yeah.

Classmate: What race are you?

Me: Ethnically I'm Polish and Chinese.

Classmate: I knew you were mixed! But are you sure you're not Korean?

Me: Congrats, and yes, I'm sure.

Classmate: Nah man, you're kidding me. You're definitely Korean, I have friends that are Korean.

Me: I'm Chinese.

Classmate: Can you speak Korean?

Me: ...Good bye.

I live in the Netherlands, and my mother is from Hong Kong. I had to do my dutch presentation about the protests happening right now, and my teacher asked a lot of questions that weren't talked about in the presentation itself. But of course I could answer them all, and even correct her a few times. My classmates later asked why I know so much about the subject, and so I told them that my mother is from HK. They then proceeded to ask me "why is your mother from Hong Kong".. I was so confused, and asked what they meant, and they just repeated the question...

Working in a bar with an upstairs and downstairs, one of the new waiting staff at the end of the night during clean up asked me if she should sweep the dirt up or down the stairs. I said up the stairs and left her to it.

"What are eggs made of?". Not like chemical make up, but if they had flour in them. Cause of the whites. If they had butter in them. Cause of the yolk. This kid (23 y/o) was a box of bricks.

I was the one asking the stupid question. When I was like 12 I was at a taco food truck at the county fair and my options were either a shrimp or chicken taco. I meant to ask ”is there a difference in price” because the fair always gets ya and instead I only said “what’s the difference?”

The lady said “Well one’s shrimp and one’s chicken.”

And I felt stupid.

*trying to move one of those big, multi purpose weight machines, and they noticed it's set to its heaviest setting*

"Why don't we set it to its lightest setting so it'll be lighter?"

To their credit, they realized about ten seconds later why that was a dumb question.

I am a woman with a twin brother. I can't tell you how many people have asked me if we are identical twins...

A: where can in find a security guard?

Me: Security is located in the pavilion over there. They can be reached 24 hours a day.

A: What if I need them at night?

Everyday. Every single day at work.

Answer work phone “Dave speaking” “Hi can i speak to Dave please?”.

Customer buying a bottle of water at a coffee shop: "Is this real water?".