The same girl had never heard of the Rocky movies. I made a reference about them once and she had no idea. I thought she was trolling. Nope. To say she was sheltered (And lets face it, pretty stupid) is an understatement.
I once had a doctor ask me how she should go about ordering an x-ray of someone's hip. My response: "I would just write, in the chart, x-ray of ____ hip."
Forgot about this one... We're walking around with twin boys who look exactly alike and are dressed exactly alike, and someone inevitably will say "twins?" Uh...no. Why would you think that? Another is "did you have fertility treatment to get them?" Nope....just my super sperm.
This was an exchange I had with one of my clients while looking over plans. Client: What's this wall in the basement? Me: That's the foundation wall. Client: Why is it so thick? Me: It holds up the rest of your house and also all the dirt back from filling the basement. Client: Can we do without it? In the Blond and Asian question category when I first got to Minnesota I was dating a girl from the Iron Range of Minnesota (BFE area against the Canadian border). She once asked me how I could be both Chinese and Asian.
When my older 2 girls were younger, we would sometimes dress them the same (because the younger would be jealous of the dress the older one had and wanted one just like it) and people would ask me if they were twins, despite them being 2.5 years apart. So maybe it's guys like me making people ask you stupid questions. Asking about fertility treatments is more too invasive than stupid. One stupid question I did get was: which side of the family has a history of twins? Ummm, it would have to be the mother's side, if any, unless you think my sperm went into the ovaries and kidnapped some extra eggs (she does have twin cousins, but through her uncle as the blood-relation, so there's no genetic relationship there either).
While my dental hygienist had her sharp tools in my mouth this morning, she asked if I was a Christian. I just made a generic noise and she went back to abusing my gums. Not stupid, but weird. What a weird time and place for that question.
Nope. He was serious. He was a cheap skate who was trying to look for ways to save money. That wasn't the only dumb thing he asked but it was the dumbest. He later tried to sue us when it was his contractor, a buddy of his, who made the mistake. Once I showed them that his buddy had built it not according to the drawings he shut up pretty fast.
I definitely would be wary of doing work for someone that clueless. I probably was guilty of asking a stupid question once. (Or twice ). I was in line at a sandwich shop rushing to get back to work, this was about 12 years ago...a tall blonde tapped me on the shoulder. "Excuse me, How tall are you?" "six five" "Do people ask you that all the time?" "Do people say you look like Uma Thurman all the time?" "I am Uma Thurman" Apparently everyone but me at the shop knew this. In fairness I was late for a meeting and dying of hunger.
