33 People's Dumbest "Oh No, You're Not Kidding" Moments

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Eric Lund
Jun 9, 2022 1:00 PM EDT

It's easy to find yourself in a situation where you're pretty sure the other person is being dumb or insane, but they're so confident about it that it makes you question your own reality. 

When someone says something so uncouth, absurd or straight up dumb that we just can't believe them, it's reasonable to assume that they're just joking. When some dude says "do you want confetti on your fries" our brains do the social math and land on "haha, that would be crazy." But then when that same dude gets upset and says "why are you laughing at me, confetti is my favorite food" you're put into a corner where there's no graceful way out. So you shrug and go "fine dude. I guess go ahead and give me the piñata fries, extra birthday."

For some more humbling moments, here are satisfyingly times people witnessed someone's ego get crushed.

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    Font - Sci-MomT18 13 hr. ago A coworker asked me if blind people are allowed to drive.
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    Font - raxeira-etterath - 9 hr. ago First day at a new office. "If you want to log into a website, you'll want to go to the head office manager and get the password box." I thought it was a prank for the new kid, having to fetch something that doesn't exist, make the rounds, laugh along (happens a lot in tech jobs where I live). So I asked my way to head office, smiling, nodding and winking, received a little plastic boy with cards in it, smiled and winked. Nope. That box was where the passwords
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    Human body - KnittingTrekkie 12 hr. ago I was eating ice cream and an old guy walking into the ice cream parlor said, "Oh, that looks good! I'm gonna get a spoon." I smiled and laughed awkwardly, until his damn spoon was in my ice cream.
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    Font - Moctor_Drignall 13 hr. ago Had an old lady ask me when her dog would grow it's leg back after an amputation.
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    Font - MrFunktasticc - 15 hr. ago Have a relative who got a ton of help from us when they came to this country. Checked in on his family, signed his kid up for sport, helped them move, gave them furniture, gave them heaters when they didn't have heat, etc, etc. my pregnant wife was assembling his dads bed while he was at work. Once he got on his feet and found some friends he ghosted me. No call, no text, missed my kids birthdays, not even an invite for a cup of tea. Recently got a call from him
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    Font - VisualEyez33 9 hr. ago At a place that refilled ink jet cartridges, I had a customer regularly ask for "cayenne and magneto." They weren't joking, just functionally illiterate.
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    Rectangle - mamadovah1102 - 14 hr. ago I was working for Starbucks, and a customer ordered a "caramel Madagascar." So I laughed thinking it was a joke, and repeated it back correctly as a “caramel macchiato." He was not joking, and called me "pretentious" for pronouncing it correctly and to not name drinks "hard to read words."
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    Facial expression - iwatchalotoftv22 - 18 hr. ago Started coaching college basketball in the Fall of 2020. Second day there, girl had been sick and went to the doctor to see if she had covid. She came to meet with me and the head coach and said jokingly(or at least I thought) "well I don't have covid but I am pregnant" I laughed thinking she was actually joking but she was dead serious.
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    Font - santokuhandleinmyass. 16 hr. ago Tangentially mine: The other day, while sitting at a table outside the sunset grill, with advertising for their "Famous All-Day Breakfast" plastered up the front of the building. An older couple comes up to the host stand outside and asks for a table. The husband speaks up before they are sat and asks "do you guys do all day breakfast?" the host immediately thinks he's just being a typical older gentleman trying to get a laugh. So she does, as anyone who s
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    Font - Autumn_Tea95- 13 hr. ago - edited 12 hr. ago My brother telling me I needed to request off the weekend (it was Thursday) because he was getting married (due to his fiancée being pregnant). Then when I told him I needed at least a months notice to request off, he told me to just quit my job. He hasn't spoken to me in a month because his, I guess then fiancée, didn't like me and thought I was trying to steal my brother from her. My boss was understanding since I had been a model employee fo
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    Font - r56ca - 16 hr. ago At a friend's watching television. The friends older brother and his friend are outside. Suddenly the brothers friend comes barreling inside saying the older brother cut his finger off. We were "yeah, yeah, sure" Then the brother comes in holding his hand. We were still not believing either one of them. So the brother shoves his half a bloody digit in our faces.
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    Font - jaritayep - 16 hr. ago When my ex GF told me she was getting a tattoo with my name on it. We were together for only 6 months. I thought she was trying to just say it to sound cute and told her not to do it bc we are too young for that kind of stuff (18 and 19 respectively) but a few days later I met with her and she showed me the tatt. One of the many reasons I broke up with her.
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    Font - delimeat52 11 hr. ago Getting ready for a road trip. Multiple vehicles, not everyone knows each other. Him: "We should exchange phone numbers in case we get separated." Me: "Oh, I have your number. Got it from Dan. I'll call you quick so you have mine." Call him and hang up as soon as it rings. Him: "Ok. Got it. Let me call you so you have mine too." Me: "What?" Him: Calls me. Me: confused_look.jpg Him: "Did you get it?
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    Font - plural_of_nemesis - 18 hr. ago I met the dean of a medical school. He was telling me how he always liked math until they started using letters instead of numbers. I thought he was doing like a comedy bit, and he had me rolling. The more he explained himself, the funnier it seemed. Eventually I realized he was serious, and just had a quirky intonations that always made it sound like he was joking.
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    Font - giantgoose - 13 hr. ago Used to work at a big bank that bought out another, somewhat smaller but still pretty big bank about 10 years ago. Some guy came in all pissed off because we didn't send him a new debit card with the new bank's logo on it (they intentionally made it so the old ones would continue working until they were originally set to expire). Said it was "embarrassing". "I can't be the only person who's gotten upset over this, right?!?" Yeah homie, you were.
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    Font - TheGlassHammer - 13 hr. ago I worked as a supervisor for a travel agency that specialized in cruises. If you booked a cruise online through a 1-800 number that wasn't the cruise line directly, we probably handled your vacation. Lady had called in during the life of the booking and managed to bitch her way to some free on board credit and a birthday celebration for her husband on my company's dime. Well the cruise line messed up and did the decorations a day too early. She called from the
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    Font - Deniablish 11 hr. ago I joined a work skype meeting a few minutes late, and when I joined I asked to be filled in on what had been discussed in the meeting so far. One of my colleagues who is usually a bit of a joker replied "Well (bosslady) was just telling everyone about the new expectation that we wear our work uniforms while working from home." I busted out laughing, big hearty guffaws. Wiping tears from my eyes. "Alex, that's hilarious. Can you imagine???" ...nobody else laughed. We
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    Font - raineykays - 13 hr. ago When I was in high school, I worked as a cashier at a big box store. An older woman was checking out at my lane one day. I was just scanning things as they came down the belt without paying much attention. This woman had put a ton of baby food on my belt but I didn't think anything of it. I'm making the usual small talk when the elderly woman goes, "Well, this is the only thing my husband can eat anymore," and gestured toward the jars of baby food. I laughed out lo
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    Font - wex52 - 11 hr. ago About 20 years ago I (25M at the time) cross-dressed as a cheerleader for Halloween at the high school I taught at. I had an official uniform (which had a shockingly short skirt), a blonde wig, tights (through which you could see my leg hair), and a fellow teacher did a bang up job on my makeup (but I kept my goatee since I didn't actually want to pass as a female). All of my students loved it, and some teachers even brought their classes by on a short "field trip" to l
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    Font - beeandthecity. 12 hr. ago This guy came back professing his love for me in the most passive aggressive way after ghosting me for two months, no calls answered, no texts, nothing. When he ghosted me, I was heartbroken. Took some time to myself to heal and stay single, you know the drill. He texted me out of blue asking if we could talk, we met up and he told me he did some soul searching and dated a few girls and went to therapy, and told me he realized I was "the one" and said how I'd reg
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    Font - DoomDamsel 10 hr. ago My husband (at the time) knew I was thinking of leaving. He said being with me was "one of the best times of his life". ... One of? He elaborated that seventh grade was a really good year for him so that ranked first. I thought he was joking. He was not.
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    Font - Taystats33 13 hr. ago Actual conversation between two teammates meeting for the first time. Guy 1 (from Washington DC): hey your from another country, that's so cool. How do you say hello in your language? Guy 2: I'm from England Guy 1: yeah how do you say hello there? Guy 2: Hello... Guy 1: yeah but in your langue.
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    Human body - Faunastar87 10 hr. ago When my boyfriend (now ex) wouldn't buy me tampons in the fear of been mistaken for a gay person.
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    Font - mollusk06 10 hr. ago I work at a grocery store. A guy had a birthday cake made with his daughter's name written on it. He asked me where he could find the candles, then after I got them for him he asked me if there was someone in the store who could light them for him. I laughed, but he then asked again. This man really wanted to drive home with a cake with a literal open flame on top...
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    Font - unclekarl - 9 hr. ago A friend sent a photo of herself in a hideous wedding dress with "guys i found my dress" and I completely thought she was joking. I would have responded with lol or a barf emoji, but got caught up and didn't respond for a few hours. When I checked my phone the other bridesmaids had written "omg gorg" "love it" etc... and I realized she wasn't joking. I was so relieved that I didn't respond first. Side note, but related, our bridesmaids dresses were ugly af and expens
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    Font - Meowcaroon 14 hr. ago I had a patient who came a half hour late to her appointment because "Mercury is in retrograde".
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    Font - Yesteel 16 hr. ago Knew a guy who thought Trailer Park Boys was a real documentary.
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    Rectangle - Nobody_Wins_13 - 14 hr. ago "Babe, I booked the vacation tickets. And pack warm clothes." "You mean pack for warm weather." "No, pack warm clothes. We're going to T's fishing cabin in Minnesota." "Haha, good one. It's November." "Yeah, it'll probably snow! Won't that be awesome?!"
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    Rectangle - Anon456892. 9 hr. ago Had a customer tell me "Your restaurant's garlic butter is the best vegan sauce I've ever had"...myself and my coworkers laughed until we realized this man was serious. He was livid when we told him our garlic BUTTER wasn't vegan.
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    Font - thedevilofthecheeses - 10 hr. ago Had a huge argument with a friend about 10 or so years back about the definition of the word popular. You see she had determined that the word meant, in regards to people, that no one liked them. Because in John Hughes movies and similar teenage fare the popular kids were usually villainous or antagonistic and this meant she didn't like the characters, so naturally if she didn't like them then obviously no one could. Thus popular meant unliked
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