30 People share the stupidest things they ever witnessed : 'I saw a woman ditch her stroller with the child inside because a bee was flying nearby'

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Brad Dickson • Managing Editor
May 6, 2024 6:00 PM EDT

During our time on this earth it's pretty safe to say that, even through sheer force of chance alone, we've each witnessed some darn ridiculous things. In the same way that an infinite number of monkeys hitting keys at random could reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare, meeting an infinite number of individuals in your life means that you'll inevitably witness something incredibly stupid. 

While these individuals might not be breaking any records or winning any awards (save but one) for their dazzling intellect, at least they've made their mark upon the world. There's a quote that gets attributed to all kinds of literary works and great minds, Ernest Hemingway among them, that goes something like this, "Every man has two deaths: when he is buried in the ground and the last time someone says his name." These people have certainly left their mark, just maybe not in the way that they had pictured.

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    What's the stupidest thing you've ever witnessed?
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    "She pushed the stroller toward the bee and ran away."
    via Mike Kilcoyne

    Bee: Dmitry Grigoriev

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    • Meaning-Altruistic · 8 hr. ago I saw a woman ditch her stroller with the child inside because a bee was flying nearby. Like, she pushed the stroller toward the bee and ran away. Chewie83 7 hr. ago . edited 5 hr. ago "I don't need to outrun the bee, I just need to outrun you!" -Mom to baby
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    AdDesperate9119. 8 hr. ago It was me and I asked my dad when the Fourth of July was. I've never seen him look so disappointed before or since. Resident_Rise5915 6 hr. ago He wasn't angry he was just disappointed....not sure how you recover from that Maybe you followed it up by asking when cinco de mayo is?
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    BoSocks91 7 hr. ago Me - I work in a grocery store. We were slammed and one of the cashier's scan gun stopped working. For some reason, I tried scanning the order with a gun from another register.... The cashier looked at me and said "Yo, tf you doing? Thats not my register." Never felt dumber.
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    • Goose511th 7 hr. ago Circa 2004, taking a train between NYC and Buffalo, I overheard a conversation between some of the other passengers. One of them mentioned they were taking the train all the way to Toronto, to which a girl in a Cornell sweater responded, "You can't take a train to Canada! It's, like, across the ocean or something."
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    pantymichelle . 7 hr. ago I was coming out of a convenient store and a woman pulled into a parking spot floored it and ran into the barriers. I started to walk behind her to get to my car. My friend grabbed my arm and said ," wait she's not done". Sure enough, she put it in reverse and and did the same thing and slammed into the barriers a second time.
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    Avanhelsing 7 hr. ago • I once had a customer look me, a pet store employee who's relatively intelligent, dead in the eye and tell me that "Beta Fish don't eat food. They get everything they need from breathing air around them." All because I asked her if she needed Beta Fish food that happened to be right under said Beta Fish display. Thank the Lord that I eventually convinced her that the food was needed.
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    SocialRevenge - 7 hr. ago Pulled up next to a woman driving with her high beams on. I put down the window and told her. Not only did she not know how to turn them off, she was generally unaware of what they were.
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    DecentExplanation 750 6 hr. ago I was making Buffalo wings for my friend's family because they never had them before. My friend wanted to help so I asked her to prepare the carrot sticks. She couldn't figure out how to work the peeler because her family never makes anything that complicated, fr??? So I asked her to make the celery sticks and she still didn't know what to do. The name is the recipe. Celery. Sticks.
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    chiken noodle87 7 hr. ago • Someone watering her lawn...in the rain mandyvigilante - 5 hr. ago Welcome to my whole neighborhood. Nobody turns their sprinklers off NO MATTER WHAT
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    • godbullseye 5 hr. ago My dads white trash neighbors thought it was a good idea to setup a slip and slide on a gravel driveway. I deeply regret not getting it on camera but am confident I heard the 300 lb dad crack a rib when he got a running start and belly flopped onto it.
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    RipErRiley 7 hr. ago Neighbor kid offered to do our lawn so I got the mower out for him. He thought a self propelled mower meant self mowing. So he just aimed it and let it go.
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    belac4862 6 hr. ago I once had a customer come into the store I was working at and ask me if we had any Strawberryrhubarb. Not Strawberry Rhubarb, but one word. One plant. Strawberryrhubarb. I tried to tell her, "They're two different things, that you then bake together for the pie." She left the store so sure she was right and I was a young teenager who didn't know anything.
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    PeppermintBiscuit • 3 hr. ago You just reminded me of a deli I worked at, where we had a sale sign that said BLACK FOREST on one line and HONEY HAM on the line below. There wasn't room for HAM on the first line. I had the hardest time trying to convince this one lady to just pick one, these are the hams, this one is black forest ham and this one is honey ham, which one would you like, stop saying "black forest honey ham" there is no such thing
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    • papparmane 6 hr. ago. A woman looking for Panasonic (and only Panasonic) AA batteries for her Panasonic alarm clock, refusing any other brands. I even tried to explain to her. I said "Trust me I'm an engineer" even if I'm not. She left without batteries.
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    Odd_Philosopher25 • 8 hr. ago I put my coffee maker on a gas stove (I don't use stove that much, so why not just use the space). When my sister came to visit me, she thought the coffee maker uses gas to heat it up. It was glass and plastics.
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    • elphaba00 5 hr. ago I was a substitute teacher in a junior high math class. A kid took a Sharpie and wrote "idiot" across his forehead. Except he didn't spell it right.
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    • beaux_beaux_ · 7 hr. ago Someone running a red light and smashing into a cop. It was a substantial wreck and the cop was SO
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    sam_the_beagle · 7 hr. ago 2 guys, 1 broken down car, 1 good car, and 100 bungie cords at a stop light. It didn't go well for the bungie cords, but I still laugh about the incident.
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    MelancholyBean 6 hr. ago • At a previous job this woman who worked part-time to help with the administration would print out job reports that contractors sends then scan them to save onto the computer instead of saving them from the start
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    Bombadil3456 3 hr. ago • Lol I've seen someone that maintained an excel spreadsheet by writing whatever she needed to input in notepad, then took a screen capture and then pasting the image of the number or text into excel. She has been doing this for years, the file is over 1 gig and has several thousand lines with thousands of small pictures in cells
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    PJMurphy 6 hr. ago I was at a hardware store, and 2 guys were tying a sheet of plywood to the roof of a car. One would toss the rope into the driver's window, and the other would grab it off the passenger seat and toss it over the plywood. They did the same with the back seat windows, and then fastened the back edge to the rear bumper. I was watching and laughing, and they were getting annoyed... ...until they tried to enter the car and realized that they had tied the doors shut.
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    Current Holiday1643 8 hr. ago While driving I saw this lady wanted to take a left turn out of a parking lot. The road had a low concrete curb which is maybe 4 feet wide in the middle of the road, it wasn't some hidden fact. She was almost certainly staring right at the median. It all happened in about 10 seconds, I see her with her left blinker on as I drive up on her. I go "No, she is not" in disbelief. She cuts me off and proceeds to drive right over the median in her minivan.
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    Material_Essay_4502 8 hr. ago "I can shoot with my left hand, I can shoot with my right hand, I'm amphibious."
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    • Iggys Pop3 5 hr. ago I had a desk overlooking an awning at work. There was a wasp nest in the awning. I sat at my desk and watched the facilities guy go up on a scissor lift and try to knock it down with a broom. The wasps were not impressed and he had to slowly lower himself on the electric scissor lift to try to escape them.
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    SOWED 5 hr. ago There were power outages in my city, and I was in a Taco Bell that did have power. It was dark out, and a dude walks in on a cell phone and asks the cashier if they have power...in a room full of clearly active fluorescent lighting. The power died like 10 seconds after the stunned cashier was like "uhh yes?"
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    coffee-girl1 6 hr. ago Was in London for study abroad & went to see Wicked. While standing in line for merch, the woman in front of me (I'm assuming also American), was buying the soundtrack cd & asked if this cd would have the accents
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    HornetBoth3214 5 hr. ago I live in the United States. A girl in my high school asked during history class "Did we win the American Revolution?"
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    Rozie1970 7 hr. ago My idiot cousin trying to put out a grease fire on the stove with water.... My aunt got a new kitchen that year LOL
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    Boojum2k 5 hr. ago My former boss cutting down a long, thick tree limb, by standing on top of a stepladder, with a powered pole saw, directly under the limb. Sawing away at the point the limb met the trunk.
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