40 Hilarious Instances Of People Being Shockingly Unaware Of Common Knowledge

Not me, but on this past season of worst cooks in America, the chef, Carla, had to explain how to use a can opener. You could see her die a bit inside before she did.

Not practical at all but I’m pretty goth and like spooky stuff/folklore… my boyfriend is just a normal sports guy lol

When I was first meeting his cousin I asked what he told her about me… and he says “I told her you were a 1000 year old vampire and to bring onions to ward you off”

… nah, babe that’s garlic 😂 gotta get that man up on his folklore lol.

A friend recently drove a kid home after practice, and she didnt know her address. 9th grader, she'd lived there for a few years, and knew how to get home on the bus, but didn't know what her friggin address was!?

Working for a finance company and a customer asked me "why am I being charged interest on my loan?"

I remember 90% of our lunch time chatter was how much people need to learn financial literacy in school lol.

One of my male friends was around 30 and didn't know how to crack an egg. He went through at least 6 eggs and didn't stop to look it up online.

I had a friend in college who was very smart but sometimes had hilariously stereotypical blonde moments. One time we were talking and the subject of how many weeks are in a year came up and when I said 52 she was amazed I just knew that off the top of my head. I was like, “yeah? Everyone knows that?” And she refused to believe me. She went around the whole dorm and asked everybody if they knew how many weeks there where in the year and was astounded that every single person knew.

I was cooking with a friend (making pasta), we were in college, when she asked, How do you know when the water's boiling? She has three (3) kids now.

When the horrific airplane disaster in India happened a few months ago, my best friend and I were talking about it. She kept saying "the Airbus", eventually I corrected her and said that it was a Boeing plane. She looks at me like I'm stupid and says "yeah I know, it's a Boeing Airbus".
I had to explain that Boeing and Airbus are companies that make planes.

She thought an Airbus was just another name for a plane, because it's basically a bus in the sky.

I got a good laugh out of that

What's worse is her daughter's father, works for Boeing.

I once made out with a girl, nothing else. The next day she called me, crying asking if she could be pregnant. We were both 22.

When we moved into a new house, my husband thought we weren’t getting mail because the red flag on the mailbox was never flipped up.

Apparently he’s gone his whole life living somewhere where the mailbox was either just a slot on the front door or a communal/grouped mailbox (idk what they’re called) without any flags.

Anyway, had to tell him that’s not what the flag is for and we’re supposed to flip the red flag up to let usps know that we have outgoing mail. .

Mid-twenty year old friend didn't know you have to change the bag in a vacuum every once in a while.

"You mean a wooly mammoth isn't a dinosaur?" Said by a friend, who has an MD, is complete seriousness. I couldn't talk for a second.

I was at a gym, and one of the treadmills wasn't working, so I told the person there that the middle treadmill wasn't working. She looked at me and said "What's a treadmill?" I could not believe it.

When my first niece was born my wasband and I first visited when she was home from the hospital and sleeping in her mother's arms.

He looked at his brother and asked in all seriousness, "how old will she be when her eyes open?"

He was 35.

When I watch the actual criminal investigation shows on the CI channel:

The suspects who betray themselves in the interrogation room when they think they are alone and there is no camera and microphone.

I have an ex who hadn't heard of gooseberries so i had to explain they were real fruit that exist 😆 and then about a month later we had the same conversation about rosehips, and then later again about wild cherries. american guy dating a european had a lot of surprise cultural differences.

Fairly early in dating my now husband, he had to go on a long international trip to visit family. He had seen me shave my legs shortly before he left and when he came back, more than two months later, he asked why my legs were so hairy already because I had shaved recently in his mind. I was only at about 2 weeks of not shaving length.

Some people don't know that they can actually manage their own retirement fund. They often see it as a bonus they get once they retire, rather than a huge life-changing investment.

My ex didn't know that the eggs we eat aren't fertilized. I'm vegetarian and he thought it was weird that I eat eggs but not chicken. Once I told him eggs are basically chicken periods he never looked at eggs the same way again lol.

I had a friend who didn’t know how to grate cheese. And a friend’s girlfriend asked how to cook a hot dog. I don’t know how you become an adult and not know these things.