People Share The Moment They Realized They Were Dating A Dummy

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Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor
Jun 5, 2023 1:00 PM EDT

I've never been on a date with somebody who was straight-up stupid. I will take notice if somebody I'm seeing is boring or lame, but stupidity is one of those qualities that typically reveals itself gradually instead of all at once. One of my family's favorite stories is about a time when my Uncle went on a date with a girl who wasn't the brightest crayon in the box. They were going to a movie, and during the movie, she leaned over to him and said, "You don't mind if I ask a lot of questions, do ya? I'm kind of dumb, ya know." This story is greatly enhanced by the fact that she said this with a thick Minnesotan accent. If anything, I respect this girl because she knew who she was! She was keenly aware of her shortcomings, and she was transparent about her needs during the date. We stan this dumb Minnesotan teen from the 70s! 

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    Font - Fancy ForrestFeet 16h ● It was 1999 and I was a Marine. Her "what is war like?" "how many wars have you fought in?" "When you jumped out of a plane in enemy territory didn't you think you might get show down?" She asked these questions for months. I would ask what war is going on or what war could I have been fighting in. She was always super confused and would laugh and say I will open up eventually. She told me she told her Mom when I got out I was going to make tons of money as a parac
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    Font - Complete_Entry • 16h I once had a neighbor in an apartment building ask me how to mute the dryer. ...You don't. I'm getting lit up by people asking if she meant the buzzer when the dryer finished. She did not. She wanted to mute the drum. AKA, the rotational drum that spins your clothing to dry it. She did not like the thumping noise. 43.4k
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    Font - baboyadobo 9h How alcohol content percentage works. We argued for months that 10% as alcohol content remains the same even if you halved the bottle. She said nope, if you halved the bottle then the alcohol content would be 5%. Engineer graduate that too. She works for a software firm. For 12 years. Sigh. ... Reply 695
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    Font - pocket4129 14h He was trying to make cookies and kept opening the oven for extended periods of time, letting out all the heat. When I told him he was letting all the heat out by opening the door wide open and staring at the cookies, he told me I didn't know how ovens work because the temp setter said 400 so it was 400. Took an hour to bake 1 sheet of cookies and said "I don't know why it's taking so long." Also insisted on doing this on Thanksgiving, tying up my oven and was pissed off wh
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    Font - silentsnip94 15h ● I had an ex that became a nurse, she didn't believe in gravity. I thought she was joking... But she was not. "I think that everything has weight but I don't believe in gravity" ... Reply 3.6k
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    Font - diiejso • 20h 3 Awards I went on a couple dates with a woman who owned two large energetic dogs. When she bought them she was informed that she'd need to walk them every day to get them exercise and burn off energy. To save time, instead of walking them she'd take them for a drive and thought that accomplished the same thing. Reply 21.3k
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    Font - Lovable_Minion. 20h When he left the window open in the middle of summer because the air conditioning made the house too cold. He didn't turn off the air conditioner and argued that it wouldn't have made a difference. Edit: I want to clarify that he argued having the window open wouldn't make a difference as to how much the AC ran. I got home and the house was warm and very humid. The AC had been running constantly. ... Reply 6.6k
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    Font - butitsnotfish. 15h 1 Award He told me he had a lot of "inventions" and how rich he will be when one sells. I asked him to tell me more. He says his best "invention" is eye drops that (with just one application mind you) eliminate the need for eyeglasses. The guy is a mailman. Not a doctor. Not a scientist. And he wears glasses. So I said "if these eye drops work why do you wear glasses?" The eye drops don't exist yet. But when someone else actually formulates these fantasy eye drops my ma
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