I teach in a public high school. The list of stupid questions is incredible. Not questions about the content...questions about procedure. Mostly questions that I just answered 5 seconds before... Do we write the question? What page? What numbers do we do? Do we write the question? When is this due? Do we have to write the questions?
Falcons Talon - sounds too much like my experiences teaching these days (even after they're out of high school). The emphasis these days seems not to be on learning the material, but on jumping through the right hoops and going through the motions. In other words, getting by so they can get that piece of paper. Sad.
Customer to my pharmacist wife after receiving his suppository prescription: "How do I take this?" Wife: "You insert it rectally." Customer walks over to the store's drinking fountain, unwraps the foil, pops it in his mouth and washes it down.
Born in Houston, I go to school in California, and in my freshmen year at orientation i got this unbelievable question from a fellow student: Do you ride horses to school? Absolutely blew my mind. Here are some other doosies: Seeing a sweater that has a big USA in the middle, she asks "which university is that for?" "what's the number to 1-800-Collect?"
Before a game one night, I gave a kid a mouthpiece. He ha dlost his and I always carry a couple of spares. He looks at me and says, no joke, " where can I get some boiling water, so that I can mold it for my mouth". I told him to hang on I had some warming in my duffel bag. He waited...
"How long have you been a black quarterback?" -- Some reporter to Doug Williams when he appeared in Superbowl 22.
still one of my all-time favorites. i was in europe this summer and in one of the hostels i was talking with this girl and she said she was from canada and i said i was from Texas and she essentially asked that question (or just said "oh so do you own a horse" or "do you ride everywhere on a horse", something along those lines). and she seemed serious when she asked it. i mean i had heard people from Texas say they had been asked this by northerners before but i just assumed they were either joking or that the other person was joking when they asked it, but little did i know people would actually ask you that question. i had to try to not laugh too hard as i answered that no, we actually have them things called cars down here.
I used to live in Hawaii, and every once in a while when I tell people that, I'll get a "So do you guys live in grass shacks?"
Hey, at least the customer did not take the meds properly on the store floor. As for many of the rest of them, some of the rest of you guys sound way too sensitive, it is obvious they were more rhetorical questions than anything. I would gather someone (woman probably) was trying to be nice. What do you want them to say, "I see you got your hair cut, try a new bowl next time!" Maybe they are checking to see if you need help. Better than them saying "Hah, hah, you dork. I see you locked your keys in your car." You never make mistakes, you are always 100% confident, OK. I don't mind quantitying the degree of certainty I am about something.
Some kid in my english kid asked the teacher "why do people rape people" This is senior year High school
Now I remember a good one. When i was in 7th grade we went through Sex Ed in our class. And the teacher decided to have people ask their questions anonymously by dropping them into a hat, so as to save embarrassment. I don't know if a kid was just kidding around or something, but I swear this was one of the questions: "If a condom is 95% effective at preventing pregnancy, then would two condoms be 190% effective?"
Well, for me i was extra incredulous because you would think that a person at UC Berkeley would not be so ignorant.
I had a girl ask me what masterbation meant. By the time you reach college you should know what that means. I thought she was playing but she was serious.
