“50 Jaw-Dropping Questions That Will Make You Rethink What ‘Dumb’ Really Means!”
I’m lactose intolerant “ so you can’t eat eggs “. Well I can’t actually but that’s because I’m also allergic to eggs.
“Can you turn him so we don’t see the scratch on his cheek?” Asked of me as we were reviewing the portrait photography of her son.
No ma’am, it’s a picture. You should’ve asked this while we were in the camera room.
Them: “It would be really useful if the program could tell you if you’ve entered the wrong address; returned mail costs us a lot.”
Me: “Well, we validate addresses against the Post Office API so we can be sure we’re only entering addresses that legitimately exist-”
Them: “No, I know we do that, but sometimes people mistype and enter an address that exists but isn’t theirs, like getting the number wrong so we send it to their neighbours or something. How long would it take you to add something to prevent that?”
Me: “To add a feature that knows when the address you’ve typed isn’t the one you live at?”
Them: “Yes. How long?”
Me:”…in order to check whether the address you’ve entered is where you live, the software would need to know what address you live at, and if it knew that, it wouldn’t be asking you to enter the address you live at. Do you see the chicken and egg problem?”.
It wasn’t a question, but a statement that a well-educated friend made. She said, “I don’t believe in dinosaurs.” I replied, “How do you explain all the dinosaur bones they’ve found?” She couldn’t answer.
My business partner got this one:
“What are you studying for”
