'[She] asked why we can't drive to Hawaii': 35 People who are totally misinformed

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Jul 22, 2024 3:00 PM EDT

These people are just out here living with their incorrect assumptions about life. Someone jokingly tells you something one time, and if it's not corrected, you just mistakenly believe this thing for years until someone corrects you! The people answering u/ButterflyOverkill's question know a person or two who's exactly like that. This person asked people to spill the "most ridiculous thing you've heard someone say that they were 100% serious about." Judging from the more than 4,800 people who replied, this is a common phenomenon!  

Some people are just prone to messing things up and misremembering facts, which can make for some hilarious conversations. One person asked their friend how cool it would be if they could "see in 3D," while another truly thought that water was full of carbs. You can check out a bunch of very silly ideas people had that were just so wrong it made everyone around them do a facepalm. At least now they know for next time! 

Up next, these workers had such bad first days on the job that they were fired ASAP, like the front-desk worker who "showed up in pajamas and… thought she wouldn't have to actually talk to people." 

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    'My old coworker said he went to Antarctica in college for a month... and had to be careful of polar bear attacks'
    via henrique setim on Unsplash
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    What's the most ridiculous thing you've heard someone say that they were 100% serious about?
    via u/ButterflyOverkill
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    Magic_M My brother, against all laws of known physics, is absolutely certain that if he was ever in a tsunami he could just "swim under it". We've both been in the ocean plenty of times, surfed a bit, and have definitely had our share of waves wreck our but he's still certain he could do it if he got the timing right.
    via u/Magic_Man_B***s
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    Aware_Statement... The Caribbean coast is off the coast of England because they have British accents in Pirates of The Caribbean. This man was in the military and had no knowledge of geography.
    via u/Aware_Statement_205
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    Veritaserum25 A nurse I used to work with asked why we can't drive to Hawaii. She was absolutely serious and I wasn't surprised when she didn't last beyond her training period.
    via u/Veritaserum25
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    Ramiren "Did you know that slipknot wear masks because they're wanted criminals". Now imagine me wasting 15 minutes of my life trying to explain that if they were wanted criminals, they'd just arrest them on stage.
    via u/Ramiren
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    SaraSmashley Putting in a roundabout was stupid because now they had to stop 4 times instead of 1 if they had just left it a 4-way-stop.
    via u/SaraSmashley
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    robkat22 That when we were in the Caribbean we were seeing a different moon. Their moon.
    via u/robkat22
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    sirdigbykittencae... My ex-husband was a horrible driver. Wrecked everything he ever owned and then some, but he somehow thought he was an excellent driver. We were riding through a town with a 4-lane main road. He started to change lanes oblivious to the car that was located exactly
    via u/sirdigbykittencaesar
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    where he was headed. I told him to stay in his lane, and fortunately, he did. He said, 100% seriously, that if he'd changed lanes and crashed into the car that was already there, it would have been their fault because they didn't honk their horn to warn him.
    via u/sirdigbykittencaesar
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    JoisChaoticWhate... "Why do they call one side. of the Sun the Moon?" This 30 yr old legitimately thought the moon was just the other side of the sun.
    via u/JoisChaoticWhatever
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    BreatheMyStink "I never wear a seatbelt." Why the not? "Because if I am in a wreck, there's no way I'd be thrown to safety."
    via u/BreatheMyStink
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    magyarjm My ex wife got so angry she didn't talk to me for a day when we went to the beer cave in Walmart and I stopped at the counter to pay there (and get the things bagged to carry easier) before going to the rest of the store and getting our other needs because "you're going to get taxed twice". Took me a minute when she said that because
    via u/magyarjm
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    my first reaction in my head was yeah that's how sales tax works but obviously I know how percentages work. And she stood there angrily and said that's double taxation. That I'm wasting money by paying taxes twice. I said if sales tax is 10% and we make 2 $50 purchases, we are paying the same total as making 1 $100 purchase.
    via u/magyarjm
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    She has an MBA, but after that example just seethed more and said I'm wasting money by checking out twice and getting taxed twice. Then just stopped talking to me the rest of the night...
    via u/magyarjm
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    Lone_Ronin_ She was very serious that a useable hand-held shower head without a hose, because the hose was "ugly". Asked if she meant an overhead or a wall- mounted shower head because those didn't require a hose. Nope. She wanted the water to flow from the wall into a handheld shower
    via u/Lone_Ronin_
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    head without a hose. I tried to tell her that wasn't possible and ended up sending her to a different home improvement store.
    via u/Lone_Ronin_
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    croyalbird13 My wife's grandmother was complaining once how her phone's 5G was giving her headaches and asked my wife to turn off the 5G. My wife works with phones and was easily able to tell her grandmother that her phone wasn't even capable of 5G.
    via u/croyalbird13
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    Her grandmother didn't like that answer and later took her phone in to her carrier to only be told the same thing.
    via u/croyalbird13
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    [deleted] I'm 43 now, but used to do a fair bit of traveling in my younger days, up until I was about 30. Always coming back home for Thanksgiving/Christmas. Anyway, I had hitched back into town and was walking to my grandmas where I'd be staying, carrying my alice pack. A girl got to talking with me on my way, and it came up that I'd just got
    via u/[deleted]
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    back from Oregon..and dead faced confused she was like "they have towns out there, like cities and stuff?" She genuinely believed it was still like the Oregon trail days...this was in like 2005. lol
    via u/[deleted]
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    EveRommel I have a buddy who will claim to be an expert in military strategy and tactics, who at the same time claims studying history is pointless. He never served in any capacity.
    via u/EveRommel
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    ksbyrd I was doing an OB ultrasound on a patient. The patient was worried the baby was going to chew through the umbilical cord.
    via u/ksbyrd
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    Born-Potential "Wouldn't it be cool if we could see in 3d?"
    via u/Born-Potential
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    fuzzycuffs My old coworker said he went to Antarctica in college for a month for research, and had to be careful of polar bear attacks.
    via u/fuzzycuffs
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    DanJones2 A coworker told me that aliens from space were going through his apartment while he was at work.
    via u/DanJones2
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    dwintaylor I was working at a grocery store in the US when the change counting machines first came out. I was walking by and I noticed a woman was confused and offered her help. She said she accidentally hit the Spanish button by accident. I explained that it was okay, just keep dumping her coins in there and she will just need to bring the receipt to
    via u/dwintaylor
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    the guest services desk to cash it out when she was done. She said well I don't want to get Spanish money. I had to explain to her that she would give me American money, she just kept repeating that she hit the Spanish button though. I had to walk away
    via u/dwintaylor
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    Reyaziel That the city needs to move those deer crossings instead of putting them on highways.
    via u/Reyazie
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    Bridge-etti Used to work for a place that didn't allow outside food unless it was for babies or medical reasons. Woman brought a liter of fancy french sparkling water for the baby formula. 100% seriously. I had to explain why sparkling Similac would be a bad idea for a newborn. That kid would have belched to the moon.
    via u/Bridge-etti
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    [deleted] I worked at a restaurant while in college and the chef kinda had a reputation for being a know it all but super dumb. In those days I would prioritize my health and drink a gallon to about 1.5 gallons of water a day. The chef comes up to me one day and says I should not drink that much water. I asked why. He said "well
    via u/[deleted]
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    water has carbs in it and it's going to make you fat." I thought he was joking but he then gave me the most serious stare ever. I walked away laughing.
    via u/[deleted]
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    [deleted] "You can only get sick during winter not summer" and that "I don't need a job when I'm gonna have a man to pay all my stuff until I grow old". Like yeah keep believing all that . My ex was a true piece of work
    via u/[deleted]
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    [deleted] "I shouldn't lose my shift just because I am late" For context. This was a security job, you cannot leave until you are relieved, dude was about 2.5 hours late (no call either) and got irate that he wasn't going to be allowed to work the remainder of his shift because we replaced him with someone else.
    via u/[deleted]
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    Just about any other industry/company I would have been surprised that he still had a job at all at that point. (this was a regular thing with him)
    via u/[deleted]
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    The_old_number_... Mexico isn't in North America.
    via u/The_old_number_six
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    ripper4444 Summer intern at work commented that she was going to need a passport for a trip she was taking in a few months and when asked where she was going replied New Mexico.
    via u/ripper4444
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    okbuddy9970 "England's life expectancy is 37 years old" -my little cousin
    via u/okbuddy9970
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    Smart-Dog510 The lower your credit score the better
    via u/Smart-Dog510
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    MoodUnusual Moon is flat and it goes dark when it flips on other side and it's dark side is on us
    via u/MoodUnusual
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    Gnosticb "When I take a picture of the moon, do I need to turn the flash on?"
    via u/Gnosticb*****
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    cellorevolution "Eggs are meat"
    via u/cellorevolution
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    shadytaskmaster I worked in a retail store that sent faxes. A customer comes in, I sent a fax, he pays for it and leaves. He turns around in the parking. lot, comes back in upset. "I thought you said you faxed. this?" "I did. Here's your confirmation page." "Then why is it still here?" as he is waving it in my face.
    via u/shadytaskmaster
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    pickle_pi_314 My SO said his teeth weren't straight because he got his braces too young. I said, I thought you said you never wore your retainer? And he said well yeah but that doesn't have anything to do with it.
    via u/pickle_pi_314
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    ziggysterdust probably when my friend called mt. everest american mountain because she forgot what it was called
    via u/ziggysterdust
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    Any-Paramedic-1... "Travel time from country A to country B is different than country B to A due to time zone difference." I explained how head and tail wind works and still nothing. I was 23 at the time and this person was 51. Ever since this incident this person became an to me.
    via u/Any-Paramedic-1324

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