Dumbest Questions People Have Been Asked

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mattstaff
Mar 20, 2020 9:00 AM EDT

Someone on AskReddit asked for people to share the dumbest questions they've ever been asked. People ask all kinds of ridiculous and mindless questions. Some folks need the instruction manual for how to life, more than others. If you ever encounter a particularly dumb question, maybe help that person out by answering it. They could probably use it. 

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  • 01
    Text - billbapapa • 5h What nationality are you? canadian No, i mean, what nationality? ummm, do you mean heritage? Polish I guess No no, listen, na-tional-ity I don't know what you're asking? Whispers: Nationality, like, are you white, black, etc? just look at me, I'm white as snow, and that's not nation... Cool I didn't want to assume anything.
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    Text - thestonez • 4h "On a map, is the blue part the water or the sky"?
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    Text - WallflowersAreCool2 • 4h As a 911 operator, a caller once asked (on an emergency line) what the weather would be like on Thanksgiving Day in a desert resort popular with off-roaders, that's located about 100 miles away from our city. It was April.
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    Text - Nevaset-Agamis • 5h How can I learn to read is there a book or something
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    Text - SnowyMuscles • 4h Me: Talking English Random Guy: Wait do you speak English My thoughts : WOW what gave it away?
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    Text - CuteBoiHere • 5h A girl came up to me today, her shirt covering her mouth, and asked "do you have the corona?" I just- what do I say to that? Listen, if I tested positive or had symptoms in general, I would be at НОМЕ. Then she spread a rumor that I live with someone who tested positive and went home saying she has kids at home. Hr isn't on her about it because they are more concerned about what she said rather what she did. I've been in and out of meeting and hearing whispers about me al
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    Text - Wordnord70 • 4h "Won't they hatch?" Asked by a guy who had just thrown out two dozen eggs that had *just* passed their expiration date. He was concerned about having 24 little chicks running around inside his refrigerator. Dude was a university-level science major.
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    Text - geeltulpen • 4h My mother works as a volunteer guide in a national park and she was asked "at what elevation do deer turn into elk?" Mine is, as a pavement engineer, a citizen called me and asked me why on earth I didn't bother to have the new pavement match the old pavement in color, because the new patch by her house is so unsightly with the ugly new black next to the older grey. She also told me she was sure I didn't spent the money for the "greyer pavement that would have matched" in
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    Text - zoltrinaforsure • 4h Someone asked me if my dog's eye's were naturally that colour or if she was wearing coloured contacts?
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    Text - Anjodu • 3h Working in a coffee shop, around mid-afternoon. A man walks in, glances around and walks up to the counter. Me: Hey, what can I get for you? Him: Um. (Glances around the store more) Are you guys open? Mostly out of confusion I also glanced around my store I saw all of the other employees clearly working, and our lobby full of people sitting/ eating/drinking/etc. Me: Yes?
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    Text - fizziebutter • 5h Oh the score is 1-1 well that's good but who's score is higher
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    Text - JollyMortuary • 4h. While watching Frozen with a group of friends, my brothers girlfriend, 30 minutes in looks confused and upset and looks me in my eyes and asks "If their parents died, are they still sisters?". She had been thinking about it for 30 minutes. I had to console her and let her know that if her parents died, her sister would still be her sister.
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    Text - Commander_Shepard_ • 4h "Why is Chrome not on my remote desktop?" Somehow this request had been called into our IT Helpdesk while simultaneously emailed to the Provost and three deans. This set off a hellstorm of emails demanding we resolve the problem immediately, that we were interfering with an administrators job, etc. The problem? The user apparently doesn't what a start menu is, despite it having been in the Windows OS in some form for the last 24 years. All this stems from a debate
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    Text - ShipShipShipShipShip · 3h Standing in line, arms full whiskey, pop bottles and a case of beer, standing a short and respectable distance behind the person currently being rung up, when someone comes up and looks at me confused and asks, "Are you waiting in line?" No, karen, I just came in after work to hold as much booze as I can and just stand here for no purpose. It's truly my favorite thing to do so don't mind me, go on ahead and cut me off.
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    Text - katt-w • 3h "How do you say salsa in Spanish?" WELP.
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    Text - MIKE_HONCHO_ • 2h "What plant do shrimp grow on?" my 20 year old friend in college
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    Text - morganalefaye125 • 3h "So, if I left at 3:37, what time would it be in 30 minutes? 4:12?" Said to me by a 20 year old college student wondering when they had to be back from their break at work. She then said, "I took the 7 and added 5, then subtracted 30, and I can't seem to get it right, so I just guessed".
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    Text - dolly_flowerfriend • 3h "There is a strange smell in my staircase. Do you think it's gas?" I have been asked in a chat once. Followed by the sentence "I once heard that if there is gas and you switch on the light, there will be a huge explosion. I switched it on, but nothing happened."
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    Text - frerky5 • 5h "Are you better than me?" by some kid at a wedding where all kids (me too) were bored. I said "yes" and then he wanted to be my friend.
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    Text - cphoebney • 4h I don't remember the dumbest things I've been asked off the top of my head, but I remember when I was little and didn't really understand how years work, I asked my mom if I had been born in 1888, or 1988?
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    Text - elduba • 3h I used to work at the zoo. Sometimes I would run this stand where you buy some fruit to feed the elephants. There were peacocks at the zoo that would roam free so they'd end up inside the elephant enclosure a lot. One day, upon seeing the peacocks inside the elephant enclosure, a customer asks me: "So are they dinner for the elephants?"
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    Text - "How do you spell TV?" To be fair, that one came from a young kid. Here's a runner-up from a middle-aged woman in a meat shop where I used to work: Grown Woman: "What's the difference between the cooked prawns and the raw prawns?" Me: "... These are cooked, and these ... aren't." GW: "But these ones are pink and these are grey." At the same job, I was ringing up a young woman's purchases, and it turned out she didn't have enough cash to pay for them all. I suggested an item to take off th
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    Text - maleorderbride • 4h Wasn't me, but my twin brothers: "with people confusing you all the time, do you ever forget which one you are?"
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    Text - saltynalty17 • 3h Both come from my days in the food industry: "What are mashed potatoes?" - a woman who was definitely old enough to vote "Why did you ring this up as steak burrito and not a vegetarian burrito?" - a man who asked me to put steak on his burrito
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