Unforgettable Acts of Stupidity From Real People
It’s truly mind-boggling that some people can be so dumb and yet manage to navigate through life without any major mishaps. From grown adults who never learned basic life skills to bosses whose incompetence defies logic, there seems to be an endless supply of foolish individuals out there.
A group of Redditors decided to come together and share their experiences with the dumbest people they’ve ever come across.
Don’t Kiss This Cook
This one blew my mind. My housemate, a 24-year-old post-grad student, did not realize that: 1. You needed to preheat an oven. 2. You needed to defrost frozen meat before cooking it.
3. You need to use a baking tray. I learned this one day after I caught her lining the bottom of our oven with frozen chicken drumsticks.
Wild Ideas
I used to work in Banff National Park. One day at the end of the tour, I was driving some guests back to their hotel and a woman was adamant that Banff was clearly a very dangerous place to visit since we “just let wild animals run around everywhere!
They should be in cages!” I had to fight the urge to throw her off the bus pretty hard. She also insisted that she needed to change the money she got in British Columbia to Alberta currency, which…does not exist.
Bilingual From Birth
A very pregnant checkout girl once heard me and my mom talking to each other in Spanish and asked us if it was hard to learn.
Woof, this led to quite the conversation. Apparently, the baby’s father was from South America and, since he had gone home for good, she was afraid she wouldn’t be able to understand the baby.
After an awkward pause, my mom and I explained to her how the baby will speak in English because that’s what she speaks and it will learn it from her.
She didn’t seem relieved, so I fear she might have not believed us.
As Good As Gold
I worked at a bank when mobile depositing had just become a “thing.” We understood that some people would take longer to get used to it, but when we received a picture of someone’s cash, we realized that they sent a picture of their cash to us for deposit…because money is money, right?
Yeah…it doesn’t work like that at all.