“50 Jaw-Dropping Questions That Will Make You Rethink What ‘Dumb’ Really Means!”
“the bar exam”
“cool, bartending sounds fun!”.
Someone asked me if my snake was an invertebrate and I had to sit there and explain that snakes are like 90% vertebrae.
I’m a teacher who began my career teaching the blind. I cannot tell you how many people asked if the kids knew sign language.
They were not joking.
I’m from Alabama. I’ve been asked, among other things, if I had an outhouse, if I rode a horse around instead of driving, if I normally wore shoes when I went places, and if I owned a police dog specifically trained to attack black people.
Going from England to Wales for a week away with my then girlfriend. She ask what we would do about food while we were there. I said we’d probably just pick something up from Tesco while we were there.
“Do they have supermarkets in Wales?” she asked.
After someone bragging they knew a lot about Catholicism, “Do Catholics believe in Jesus?”.
I have a conjoined toe. The normal stupid question is “Does that make you swim faster?” They’re conjoined, not webbed. The stupider version got asked when I was staying in a trailer park my dad lived in. One of the girls saw my foot and asked “Did you ever try just pouring hot water on it?”.
Was discussing not owning a car with a coworker
“Do you have your license?”
I was actively driving a work vehicle…in a job where you need a special license to even get hired.