They say “There’s no such thing as a stupid question.” The phrase implies that the quest for knowledge includes failure and the fact that you know less than others must not prevent you from learning. But whether or not you think it’s true, I think we can agree that sometimes people present their questions in such a funny way, you don’t know if you should just laugh or answer them seriously.
Interested in these situations, Reddit user u/Yurtle_212 submitted the following question to the platform: “What was the stupidest thing someone has asked you 100% seriously?” And everyone immediately started replying with their stories. As of this article, the post has nearly 37K upvotes and 25K comments. Below are some of the best ones.
#1
The insurance company asked if there was a chance that my dad’s amputated leg would grow back.
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#2
Waited on a woman who asked me what kind of meat was in our beef taco salad.
Lady: what kind of meat is in your beef taco salad?
Me : Beef
L: what kind of beef?
Me: Beef, ground beef seasoned with taco seasoning.
L: No, I mean is it pork or chicken?
Me: Ma’am, it’s beef, it’s from a cow. It’s beef.
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#3
Because I am a dwarf I get a lot of hilarious ones, but one of my favourites was “do you need to get a smaller engine for your car?”
I really wish I could have seen your internal process that led to that question, lady.
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#4
People visiting Alaska on a cruise would walk onto the dock– a dock portruding into the pacific ocean– then look up at the mountains and ask what elevation we were at.
1 foot, ma’am. You are standing on a dock which is at sea level.
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#5
Someone was placing an order once at my family’s restaurant, and they had asked me for a side of French fries without the potatoes. I assumed she was joking, so I laughed…she wasn’t joking. She got offended and left the restaurant
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#6
Do you think they’re a little old to be lesbians?
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#7
The Scene: Meeting some new people in a college class.
I introduce myself, “Hi, I’m LoveIsLegallyBlind.”
New classmate: “Don’t you mean DifferentNameThatSoundsALittleLikeMine?”
Me: “No…”
He thinks it’s time to double down. “Are you sure? Why not?”
Me: “Because that’s not what my parents named me…”
Like what? Who corrects someone on their own name? I have a somewhat unusual name. People misspell it or mispronounce it all the time, but this was special.
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#8
I was asked how far the luggage plane usually flies behind the passenger plane. The person who asked me went to an Ivy league medical school.
#9
If it was possible to even land a plane on Japan because it’s so small.
Because, you know, maps are a 1:1 description of the world
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#10
“What time is the 3 O’clock parade?”
I worked at Disney World. This is the #1 most common question you’ll get asked as a Cast Member in the Magic Kingdom.
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#11
First day working a tech support job, I answer a phone call from a woman whose laptop won’t turn on. She’s at the airport trying to get some work done and is very frustrated because she had been working for several hours during a layover and the laptop suddenly shut off. I asked her if she had the laptop plugged in when it shut off, or if she was just running it on the battery. “It can be plugged in? I thought it was supposed to be wireless.”
I honestly thought I was being pranked because I was the new guy. After a lengthy pause to decide if this was a serious call, I advised her to try plugging it in. Laptop turned on, she was amazed that it didn’t just recharge itself when she wasn’t using it.
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#12
“Do we have the ability to open digital files?”
This is the guy who would print PDFs from our server then scan the print to his email so he could save them to his desktop…
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#13
In high school, we were warming up before a baseball game one evening and some really ominous ,dark clouds started rolling in. One of my teammates very seriously asked “Is that a storm or is that just night coming?”. I will never forget that.
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#14
Not me, but our safari guide in South Africa said he once heard a woman ask her husband, “Honey, is that the same moon we see in Texas?”
#15
Was a Mac Genius for 7 years, customer asked if her iPod would get heavier as she puts more music on it.
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#16
What day of the week is good Friday on?
Do you mean what date?
No, what day of the week. It was on a Thursday last year.
No
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#17
I am an identical twin and one time a girl asked me if we get each other confused.
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#18
My grandpa left my place, immediately called me to ask if he left his cell phone at my place.
“How are you talking to me?”
“………bye.”
#19
A girlfriend of a friend of mine asked. “ I wonder what it was like before color”. This chick thought the WORLD WAS BLACK AND WHITE not film.
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#20
My current boss asked me to “make the pages smaller” so she can see all of them” she had excel zoomed in to 200% and thought I was just sending things in font 46. This person has been in her position for 12 years. Ugh.
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#21
My twenty-something daughter asked why we never see squirrel eggs. Us parent types responded that’s because squirrels are mammals and don’t lay eggs like birds do. To which she responded, then show me an infant squirrel / “breastfeeding” squirrel.
This led to a conversation that was much longer than needed to be.
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#22
A woman asked me if gorilla glue was made from real gorillas. I laughed at first, but she was serious. She told me she was vegan and wouldn’t use the product if it was made with real gorillas.
#23
How did we know that they were called dinosaurs?
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#24
Had a lady insist that “the lights outside that you don’t plug in and don’t have batteries” were not solar lights. She got furious when she asked two more employees who both said solar lights. She then described the solar panel on top of those decorative garden lights, and demanded a manager. Who also told her solar lights.
Yes- she meant solar lights. She came back later, clearly embarrassed and bought some.
#25
Literally had a guy ask me yesterday “if I hit the cash back button, does the money come out of my account?” Dude was like 30 and he thought cash back was just…free money I guess?
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