29 People Share the Moment They Realized Someone Did Not Know How the World Works

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Jun 21, 2018 2:00 PM EDT

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    Text - [-] Yoinkie2013 9201 points 12 hours ago I'm attending grad school in Barcelona, and there are these two Colombian girls in my class who I'm pretty sure have never had to work for anything in life. We just had our first final the other day, and while the test was hard I thought it was pretty straight forward. It was essay type questions and you needed to draw on things we discussed in class to answer each question. A few minutes into the exam, one of the girl raises her hand and says she
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    Text - [-] Tabbinator 6457 points 12 hours ago I told my friend that I was saving up to get my bathroom remodelled and she said to me "What still? It's been two months!" Yes dear, but I have to pay my bills/mortgage/travel/food/whatever else I may need. She lives at home with her parents still and doesn't have to pay any bills/rent to stay there. She's in for a shock when she moves out
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    Text - -] punkass_book_jockey8 18.4k points 12 hours ago First day at college, girl next to me raising her hand and waiting for the RA to call on her asks "what time will the cleaning services be cleaning our rooms." Man did she make me feel better, 1 was poor and got a scholarship. I was so stressed I'd do something stupid first but she totally jumped on that fire for me.
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    Text - [] reddittwayone 2908 points 8 hours ago At our marriage prep retreat there was a couple who was 20/21 years old. The girl was still in college, her fiance worked at a radio station. She said their plan was to get married right after she graduated and start having kids, and she would be a stay at home mom. One of the other couples asked if they had discussed how the finances would work with that, and she said she doesn't have any bills right now so it shouldn't be that hard
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    Text - -] jeswesky 1480 points 7 hours ago Was good friends with this girl in college. I knew she was spoiled (free reign of daddy's credit card) but it was never a big deal. After college she couldn't grasp why I couldn't spend the next 6-12 months backpacking through Europe with her, which she wanted to do because she didn't feel like getting a job yet. The idea that I had to get a job to support myself and start paying back student loans was completely foreign to her. Her answer to everything
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    Text - [-1 Oberon447 14.9k points 12 hours ago This kid at my school thought taxes weren't real and just a story
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    Text - [-] vadermustdie 15.3k points 12 hours ago* My uncle raised his two kids in Hong Kong by forbidding them from watching any TV, take public transportation, or being out by themselves at any time. they spend their days at an English-only international school, then come home after school and read English books. One day we had a family gathering (very rare because apparently Chinese food is not good for them) and I realized that these kids are raised in Hong Kong but they speak no Chinese. Th
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    Text - [-] Dr_Henry_Armitage 6715 points 8 hours ago* A friend of mine decided to quit his job to become a twitch streamer. Right off the bat i thought this was a stupid plan. But the real kicker was his timeline for his streaming career. He told me he saved enough money to pay his bills for 1 month. ONE MONTH! And after that he would be making enough money from twitch to pay his bills. He seriously believed that after 1 month he would have between 2 and 3 hundred subs. He refused to advise or u
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    Text - [- pepepenguin 7629 points 8 hours ago Fellow college student: I don't understand why other students keep looking for free food. If they really need more money, why don't they just get more student loans? I had to explain to him that, at some point, they stop giving you student loans. Also that not everyone had parents who were willing/able to support their children, and that even if you did pull out more loans then that's more money you have to pay back after university comparitive to yo
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    Text - [-] Maat1932 11.2k points 11 hours ago I was in the Army with someone who wanted to know when the maids came to do laundry in Basic Training.
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    Text - -] lix64 14.1k points 11 hours ago Met a guy at uni who thought Chinese people would be unaffected by the rise of superbugs because they were too smart to fall victim to it. Both a pharmacy student and a Chinese person could not convince him otherwise
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    Text - -] abar991 3862 points 8 hours ago they lived with a dark bedroom for 7 days waiting for the real estate of their rental property to come and change the light bulb
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    Text - [-] Barkingpanther 25.8k points 11 hours ago a friend of mine saw a guy getting arrested in college- kid was struggling and cussing out the cops like crazy- "do you know who my father is?!" A cop humored him and asked. "He owns the number one used car dealership in upstate New York!" We were in Massachusetts. They were unimpressed by his legacy and took him in.
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    Text - -] SchmetterlingeFrau 10.2k points 12 hours ago* Went to a metal music festival with a friend and camped there. We had just woken up and she pulls out her hair straightener and asks where the outlets were. when I told her that there are no outlets on the camping grounds, she looked at me in horror and said: "so I won't be able to straighten my hair for 3 days?"
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    Text - [-] fuqmook 12.0k points 8 hours ago* Got into a fender bender in high school. I was driving a car that cost me $300 (had been sitting on concrete blocks at a cousin's, patched it and bought wheels) and I was absolutely devastated. The kid who hit me wasn't freaking out at all and kept saying his dad would get him another one, why was I so worried about an old car? Once the dad got there, it turned out this is the third car his kid had wrecked. For that school year.
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    Text - -] Ser_Laughing_Tree 2511 points 8 hours ago* Former barista here. A customer came through drive thru one afternoon, ordering a custom drink that cost about $5. While on the phone, he dug change out of the corners of his van and handed me what amounted to less than $3. I continued looking at him with my hand extended, half full of dirty coins, when he just shrugged and said, "That's all I got." I repeated the total and said he hadn't given me enough. "Can't you just spot me with your tips
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    Text - [-] MadMadGirl 12.9k points 8 hours ago* Had a woman call into work (banking) and ask for her mortgage payoff. It was like 40 thoundish.... she said there was no way that was right because her payment book only had 3 more coupons in it and she thought it was done when the coupons were. She couldn't comprehend that she had a 30 year mortgage and that she didn't get a coupon book for all 30 years, she only got three years at a time and because she had an adjustable rate. I had to call back
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    Text - -] nicksbrunchattiffany 4910 points 10 hours ago* One a university field trip. Lecturer points out at a watchtower turned Starbucks "What do you see?" One girl "Starbucks" He goes "yes, but what kind of building is it or seemed to be in the past?" All the class said "watchtower" And she goes "Starbucks" He asked her to look at it and she keeps insisting. Then he explained that he understood but that it she needed to understand what it was in the past. (We were in a history class) And she
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    Text - - jmsturm 4720 points 6 hours ago My cousin and I were talking one day and and I mentioned that I had a horrible sense of direction, where my brother could be dropped off in a cornfield and find his way home. She replied that it was easy to find your direction, just remember "Never Eat Shredded Wheat" and you will know where North is Ilaughed and said that was for remembering the directions in order, not for finding which way was which. We argued for 20 minutes till I told her to show me
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    Text - [-] maaritt 14.8k points 8 hours ago Guy sold his rent-a-center TV and couldn't understand why they threatened to charge him for theft.
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    Text - [-] Socialbutterfinger 6450 points 8 hours ago My sister-in-law got in an argument with her brother/my husband and me, stopped speaking to us, blocked us on Facebook... and then threatened to sue us for visitation rights to our six-month-old.
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    Text - [ reallifegarnet 1047 points 8 hours ago My little brother who was (and I fear still kinda is) adamant that he would grow up to be an actor all through high school without trying to pursue any acting related things. Quit drama club freshman year and never looked back. Didn't work towards getting into an acting program in college. Spent more time on his video games than acting, but I guess he was just banking on being discovered and put into roles due to handsomeness. It's hard enough to m
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    Text - [-] jenniferjuniper 6761 points 7 hours ago My brother wanted to be a "game designer". I asked how that was going and what he had been doing. Mom had gone to Walmart to pick up some art supplies so he could get "Designing" He did not really know what coding was in terms of game design, and did not know graphic design. He thought he could simply just draw up some swords and guns and shields and someone would pay him to do this for a living. With zero experience. He's almost 30.
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    Text - 1 atombrain101 602 points 8 hours ago This one guy bought a used motorcycle without getting the title transferred. Worst, the seller refused to get the title notorized because he doesn't trust the government.
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    Text - [-] moronicuniform 9753 points 8 hours ago Air Force. 18 year old arrives at his first Duty Station. He has contacted nobody. Nobody knows he is arriving today. He has figured out (by stopping at different offices and asking) where our warehouse is, and enters the office to meet his supervision... flanked by his girlfriend and his mother. Later on, it is discovered that he fudged his numbers on all his previous fitness tests to that point, which is why he could barely do 25 pushups and co
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    Text - 1 RickNL90 16.0k points 12 hours ago* Someone I know bought a house and expected wifi to be included with the house.
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    Text - [- goldenewsd 6122 points 8 hours ago There was this girl at uni. Everybody was in awe whenever she talked. She didn't believe in taxes and earthquakes. Also, studying to be a social worker she said: "I don't like working with retards, because I can't stop laughing at them." A real angel.
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    Text - [-] big_hungry_joe 1705 points 8 hours ago One of my co-workers told me she couldn't get the flu as an adult because she had it as a kid.
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    Text - [-] imonfiyar 6211 points 11 hours ago someone at work asked if she needed to pay to use the microwave. she decided it was too complicated to use and bought a $150 thermal lunchbox so she can take food that was cooked by her hired chef to work without needing to reheat it.
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