When I worked at Walmart years ago, my coworker tried to clean a customers forehead by licking her thumb and rubbing the mark off. She was unsuccessful. After the customer walked away, I explained Ash Wednesday to her.
I said to my neice and nephew, who were 10 and 5 at the time, that this was the only time in their lives that she would be twice as old as him. My SIL said, no, what about when she is 20 and he is 10? I just looked at her waiting for her to get it and she didn’t. Then I said that there are seven years between her and her sister, and when she was 14 her sister was 7, twice as old. Then I said how old are you right now (42) and how old is your sister right now (35). So you are not twice as old as her. She paused, and then kind of got it. Kind of.
The shiny side of a DVD player goes down. Lady bought a DVD player and a DVD. She brought the DVD back because the DVD player wouldn’t work. She called me stupid for suggesting that the DVD player read the shiny side of the disc instead of reading the label side.
Someone just told me that someone having a panic attack cannot know they’re having one so they can’t self care for it. In response to OP saying they went to the hospital because they were having a panic attack. I gave them references showing they’re wrong. Then they insulted me. So stupid!
I once got chastised for instructions I wrote because I assumed “Go to Website.com” was clear enough. Apparently, they needed instruction to find the URL bar, type in the website’s address, and press enter. Apparently, this person has never used a website that wasn’t an automatic preset.
I’m not sure if they really didn’t understand or were trying to scam me.
I went to return a case of beer I bought for my job because the beer was expired when I bought it. They kept insisting that the date on the case was the manufacturing date. I told them that was impossible. First, because while some beers do date by bottling date, the format is different. Second, and most importantly, the case I swapped for the expired one had a date IN THE FUTURE.
They still insisted that this company does bottling date not best by date.
I asked them how a case could have a bottling date that hadn’t happened yet.
They didn’t answer but still insisted they were correct.
These were adults who work at a local govt liquor store.
Y’all know “identical” means exactly the same, right? You can look at them and see they’re not carbon copies. Beyond that, even little kids know boys and girls have different parts. The twins, do, too which makes them…not the same and, thus, not identical.
When my sister and I were watching the live action Lion King, she made a comment wondering how many trainers it took to get all the different animals to stay in their places and perform on cue. I stared at her in shock as I explained to her that the animals are all CGI, and there would never be a way to get all those different animals in one place without absolute disaster. She had to google it before believing me.
I had to explain to a grown man that despite looking to be the same size as the moon at certain times, the sun is, in fact, larger than both the moon and Earth. He couldn’t wrap his head around it being larger than Earth, because it looked so small in the sky. The disbelief on his face when I explained that you could fit a million Earth’s inside the sun and it only looked small because it was 93 million miles away was amazing.
I worked for financial advisors for 15 years. One year I told myom “remember you need to get your IRA contributions in before the 15th. My mom said her husband (my stepdad) hadn’t decided what investments they wanted to put the money in. I told her they didn’t have to decide on an investment, the money just had to be in the account. She argued “no if we don’t have it invested then we’ll have to pay taxes on it”. Again me “no mom, the money just had to be in the account “. Finally I explained”when my sister and I were teenagers we had to be home by midnight. But we didn’t have to be in our beds by midnight. I drew a chart on a piece of paper and she finally got it. 🤦♀️
I had a client who was a nurse. I told her about my mom. She said she could be head of medicine at Johns Hopkins and her mom still wouldn’t trust her.
My cousin, who moved to Texas from Florida to live with my family. It was Christmas time, and we naturally had tamales around. She starts going in on this tamale, and then starts complaining about how she just “doesn’t like tamales.”
We had to explain to her that you’re supposed to take the husk off before you eat it. Goofy ass was almost 30 at the time.
The other day I had a customer return some hanging outdoor lights bc she wanted white & they were red. I explained to her it was a protective film that just need to be removed (literally said that on the film). Her response? “well they were red when I plugged them it.”😮💨
Had a friend that was in a tough situation and need a place to stay. Had to explain to her why leaving multiple dirty dishes and half empty/empty food wrappers in her room was a bad thing (ironically enough, she was complaining about the fruit flies hovering around her room)
This has happened many times in the US. People get their DNA done and are shocked it doesn’t say Mexican or Puerto Rican or American etc. I have to tell them that we all came from the other side of the world ( except the natives) and we mixed and mixed and had wars to create new ethnicities and countries and borders 🤦🏼♀️
I had to explain to a 60 year old man that his car remote key fob stopped working because the battery was dead. Somehow he knew to replace the batteries in his TV remote but thought the car key fob locked and unlocked the car without batteries?
I also had to explain to him that his dog’s dry food was always going bad really fast and attracting bugs and wild animals into his always-open garage because he needed to actually close the bag and keep it inside a strong container with a lid that kept raccoons out or maybe even keep it in house where you feed your dog. You don’t leave your bags of cereal and chips wide open outside your house so why do you do that with the expensive dog food you buy?!
I used to teach GED classes to adult men (convicted felons) in a prison. I want to preface this by saying that I do not intend for this story to be condescending in any way, as we all come from different walks of life and have different abilities/talents. I was always very proud of every one of my students. Anyway, the story:
In math/geometry were doing a unit on surface area and volume of rectangular prisms. Most of my students tended to do better with hands on learning, so I had a bunch of wooden blocks and rulers for them so they could measure, then calculate.
It turned out that very few of them could read a ruler aside from the inch and the half inch marks. I picked up on this and changed gears pretty quickly, so I taught them all how to read rulers and tape measures that day.
We had the same issue with every class/group throughout the day, which was fine. We did the surface area and volume project the next day.
I ended up making rulers/measurement part of my standard curriculum, even though it wasn’t explicitly on the GED test. A pretty large percentage of my students were bound to join the trades and it would be a very useful thing for them to know.
When I worked at a video store, a customer came in to return the copy of Wizard of Oz that they had rented, stating “I wanted the color version — this one is in black and white.” I asked how much of it they had watched. “Just a few minutes.”
That there is no such thing as a “forever oil change.” He declined us topping off his oil and our suggestion that he should really get it changed ever 5k. He left and it sounded like a box of rocks while driving away. He has it towed it a month later saying it just stopped on the freeway. That car was DEAD dead. I was shocked it lasted as long as it did.
A coworker of mine convinced his SIL (his brother also works for the company and is married to her), who is a bit of a ditz, that the big bails of hay in fields are cow eggs. When she came to a company event I was talking to her and the joke came up. Apparently he had never corrected the record and I had just assumed he had told her the truth and that had all had a laugh. Nope…
I had to tell a woman in her early 30s that, no, cows are mammals and give birth to their babies much like humans do. In fact, the platypus and echidnas are the only mammals that lay eggs. All other mammals give live birth.
In her defense she was a good sport about it and had a great sense of humor. When I told her this she went to my coworker laughing and jokingly “chewed him out”.
The ungodly amount of times I have had to tell people that no, those are not ticks on your cat/dog’s stomach. They are nipples. Also, the number of men who reply, “But he’s a BOY?!” Like…my goodest dude, YOU have nipples.
I’m from Australia. I met another Aussie friend in London. She was out of breath as we walked up tower bridge. She then explained it was due to the altitude of london.
I came back from vacation to a bunch of emails from one of my vendors because she couldn’t contact the shipping company I’d given her contact information for. She emailed me every day for a week. When I got back, I looked over the contact info I’d sent her and asked what problem she was having.
I’d given her phone numbers, but she doesn’t call, she needs an email.
I called and got her an email address in 5 minutes.
She was useless on this for a week because she wouldn’t or couldn’t or didn’t think to just pick up the fucking phone.
I was taking a new hire through on boarding forms on my computer when she started tapping my monitor. I said it’s not a touch screen and to use the mouse and keyboard. She looked at the desk then at me and said “what’s the mouse?”. She was 19 and this was in 2018. I asked how she didn’t know what it is and she explained that every device she has ever used was a touch screen and that she has never had to use one before.
I once worked at a hostel in Canada. One day, a guest paid for their room with American cash. I calculated the exchange rate and gave them their change in Canadian dollars. They looked puzzled and finally asked, “Wait… there’s different money here?”
I had to explain that yes, even though we both use dollars and cents, Canada has its own currency. She was young (still an adult) but completely shocked as it hit her that she was in a foreign country. She kind of freaked out.
My mom is a sheltered white Christian suburban lady. She homeschooled me and my siblings from the 80s-2000s.
I had to explain to her in recent years that the democrats and republicans essentially switched sides ideologically since the civil war.
I had to explain to her that black people didn’t just suddenly get the same opportunities as white people after slavery. She was genuinely baffled by BLM and didn’t understand why anyone thought racism was still an issue.
I explained to her how the crack epidemic was propagated by our own government to destabilize black communities and disproportionately imprison black men. Even my staunchly conservative dad acknowledged this.
My mom was incredulous about all this stuff. She does not have dementia.
I once had to teach a 26 year old man who worked in a kitchen how to fry an egg. We used to do early starts and have breakfast about 10am, and he’d always get me to fry an egg for him. One morning I genuinely couldn’t be arsed, so I told him to fry his own egg, to which he replied “I don’t know how, I don’t know when it’s done”.
I was genuinely shocked that a man who ate a fried egg every morning couldn’t work out when one was finished cooking.
Back in the day when scanners were large A4 size gadgets I had to explain that one cannot simply lay down the screen of a digital camera on to the scanner for the pictures to scan.
Explaining to my wife that the heater in the car is taking heat from the thousands of tiny explosions in the engine and using it to heat the car, not costing us more petrol but utilising the heat already produced. So many times.
Wireless thermostats need batteries. As a plumbing and heating engineer this gets wearing.
Turning on your heating but the thermostat is not high enough and explaining that it needs to be set high enough to call the boiler into action is something my mother has been explaining over the phone since the 70’s to customers so my father and then myself didn’t have to go to that person.
Flushing a toilet can be done with a bucket. It’s not an emergency.
If I’ve turned off your water the heating will still work.
Radiators will not run all day. The heating will come on with the thermostat and off when satisfied.
Radiators don’t get hot instantly.
The radiator may not get hot at all if it is further away than others when the thermostat is satisfied.
Work in project management and the admin girl is now a tech. Had to re pave a parking lot and it had a storm drain in the middle of it, where all the rain would drain to, lowest part of the lot. After the new asphalt was in she comes to me and goes the storm drain has sunk! I looked at the pictures and had to explain how gravity worked and water draining to it lol.
I recently had to explain to a coworker that the people who were accused of witchcraft back in the day were innocent of the charges because magic isn’t real. I don’t know how old she is but I’d guess mid 30s?
I work events of the side of my regular job. I swear to fucking God people leave their brains at the door when they attend events. No matter the amount of planning, efficient flow of set up (were talking evidence based theory from higher level school teachings) signage, staff providing instructions etc etc etc people are like lost sheep.
My ex couldn’t (and so far as I know, still can’t today) understand why she was expected to repay the student loans she used as her primary source of ‘income’ for the 15 years she spent accumulating the most useless assortment of vanity degrees one could imagine.
‘Why would they let me borrow money I have no way of paying back?!’
I had to explain to a friend of a friend that wind is not created by tree leaves rustling together vigorously. To do this task without showing the outright judgment on my face was near impossible.
I was working for a publishing firm. A fax was coming in and I was standing behind the office manager waiting for the fax to complete when my eyes idly went to her computer screen. She had the accounting program up and she had the mailing program up and she was manually typing an address from the accounting program into the mailing program. I asked her why she didn’t just copy from the accounting program and paste into the mailing program instead of typing the whole thing out. She stared at me blankly. She had been the office manager of this publishing firm for over 10 years and she didn’t know about copy paste. Hundreds of boxes of books going out every day and she had typed every single address by hand until that moment.
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How male and female flowers work on zucchini plants
When I worked at Walmart years ago, my coworker tried to clean a customers forehead by licking her thumb and rubbing the mark off. She was unsuccessful. After the customer walked away, I explained Ash Wednesday to her.
Time zones
I had to explain the difference between South and North hemisphere and how seasons differ between them.
I still have to explain to fully grown and educated adults that no, eggs are not dairy.
It’s not one moment. It’s more like 72% of all reddit comments.
I said to my neice and nephew, who were 10 and 5 at the time, that this was the only time in their lives that she would be twice as old as him. My SIL said, no, what about when she is 20 and he is 10? I just looked at her waiting for her to get it and she didn’t. Then I said that there are seven years between her and her sister, and when she was 14 her sister was 7, twice as old. Then I said how old are you right now (42) and how old is your sister right now (35). So you are not twice as old as her. She paused, and then kind of got it. Kind of.
Credit cards
Do I have to pick just one moment? Because there have been a lot of them since 2015.
The shiny side of a DVD player goes down. Lady bought a DVD player and a DVD. She brought the DVD back because the DVD player wouldn’t work. She called me stupid for suggesting that the DVD player read the shiny side of the disc instead of reading the label side.
An ex insisted that dairy cows produced milk all the time and they didn’t need to calve first.
Someone just told me that someone having a panic attack cannot know they’re having one so they can’t self care for it. In response to OP saying they went to the hospital because they were having a panic attack. I gave them references showing they’re wrong. Then they insulted me. So stupid!
I once got chastised for instructions I wrote because I assumed “Go to Website.com” was clear enough. Apparently, they needed instruction to find the URL bar, type in the website’s address, and press enter. Apparently, this person has never used a website that wasn’t an automatic preset.
When I had to explain that addiction is not a choice it’s a disease. I’m a counselor.
I’m not sure if they really didn’t understand or were trying to scam me.
I went to return a case of beer I bought for my job because the beer was expired when I bought it. They kept insisting that the date on the case was the manufacturing date. I told them that was impossible. First, because while some beers do date by bottling date, the format is different. Second, and most importantly, the case I swapped for the expired one had a date IN THE FUTURE.
They still insisted that this company does bottling date not best by date.
I asked them how a case could have a bottling date that hadn’t happened yet.
They didn’t answer but still insisted they were correct.
These were adults who work at a local govt liquor store.
Boy-girl twins.
“Are they identical?”
Y’all know “identical” means exactly the same, right? You can look at them and see they’re not carbon copies. Beyond that, even little kids know boys and girls have different parts. The twins, do, too which makes them…not the same and, thus, not identical.
Tariffs
What they should put for their son’s gender…exact words “do I mark male or female? I get them mixed up all the time.”
Clockwise and counter clockwise on a ceiling fan
When my sister and I were watching the live action Lion King, she made a comment wondering how many trainers it took to get all the different animals to stay in their places and perform on cue. I stared at her in shock as I explained to her that the animals are all CGI, and there would never be a way to get all those different animals in one place without absolute disaster. She had to google it before believing me.
My sister is 47.
I had to explain to a grown man that despite looking to be the same size as the moon at certain times, the sun is, in fact, larger than both the moon and Earth. He couldn’t wrap his head around it being larger than Earth, because it looked so small in the sky. The disbelief on his face when I explained that you could fit a million Earth’s inside the sun and it only looked small because it was 93 million miles away was amazing.
I worked for financial advisors for 15 years. One year I told myom “remember you need to get your IRA contributions in before the 15th. My mom said her husband (my stepdad) hadn’t decided what investments they wanted to put the money in. I told her they didn’t have to decide on an investment, the money just had to be in the account. She argued “no if we don’t have it invested then we’ll have to pay taxes on it”. Again me “no mom, the money just had to be in the account “. Finally I explained”when my sister and I were teenagers we had to be home by midnight. But we didn’t have to be in our beds by midnight. I drew a chart on a piece of paper and she finally got it. 🤦♀️
I had a client who was a nurse. I told her about my mom. She said she could be head of medicine at Johns Hopkins and her mom still wouldn’t trust her.
My cousin, who moved to Texas from Florida to live with my family. It was Christmas time, and we naturally had tamales around. She starts going in on this tamale, and then starts complaining about how she just “doesn’t like tamales.”
We had to explain to her that you’re supposed to take the husk off before you eat it. Goofy ass was almost 30 at the time.
The other day I had a customer return some hanging outdoor lights bc she wanted white & they were red. I explained to her it was a protective film that just need to be removed (literally said that on the film). Her response? “well they were red when I plugged them it.”😮💨
Had a friend that was in a tough situation and need a place to stay. Had to explain to her why leaving multiple dirty dishes and half empty/empty food wrappers in her room was a bad thing (ironically enough, she was complaining about the fruit flies hovering around her room)
Edit, for reference, she was almost 32 years old
This has happened many times in the US. People get their DNA done and are shocked it doesn’t say Mexican or Puerto Rican or American etc. I have to tell them that we all came from the other side of the world ( except the natives) and we mixed and mixed and had wars to create new ethnicities and countries and borders 🤦🏼♀️
If I had a dollar for every time I stopped on the side of the highway just to change a strangers tire, I’d have…. idk 10 to 15 dollars.
Learn how to change a tire people.
I had to explain to a 60 year old man that his car remote key fob stopped working because the battery was dead. Somehow he knew to replace the batteries in his TV remote but thought the car key fob locked and unlocked the car without batteries?
I also had to explain to him that his dog’s dry food was always going bad really fast and attracting bugs and wild animals into his always-open garage because he needed to actually close the bag and keep it inside a strong container with a lid that kept raccoons out or maybe even keep it in house where you feed your dog. You don’t leave your bags of cereal and chips wide open outside your house so why do you do that with the expensive dog food you buy?!
The difference between nationality and ethnicity.
I used to teach GED classes to adult men (convicted felons) in a prison. I want to preface this by saying that I do not intend for this story to be condescending in any way, as we all come from different walks of life and have different abilities/talents. I was always very proud of every one of my students. Anyway, the story:
In math/geometry were doing a unit on surface area and volume of rectangular prisms. Most of my students tended to do better with hands on learning, so I had a bunch of wooden blocks and rulers for them so they could measure, then calculate.
It turned out that very few of them could read a ruler aside from the inch and the half inch marks. I picked up on this and changed gears pretty quickly, so I taught them all how to read rulers and tape measures that day.
We had the same issue with every class/group throughout the day, which was fine. We did the surface area and volume project the next day.
I ended up making rulers/measurement part of my standard curriculum, even though it wasn’t explicitly on the GED test. A pretty large percentage of my students were bound to join the trades and it would be a very useful thing for them to know.
When I worked at a video store, a customer came in to return the copy of Wizard of Oz that they had rented, stating “I wanted the color version — this one is in black and white.” I asked how much of it they had watched. “Just a few minutes.”
Being conscious of other people’s homes
That there is no such thing as a “forever oil change.” He declined us topping off his oil and our suggestion that he should really get it changed ever 5k. He left and it sounded like a box of rocks while driving away. He has it towed it a month later saying it just stopped on the freeway. That car was DEAD dead. I was shocked it lasted as long as it did.
The guy was like 40
A coworker of mine convinced his SIL (his brother also works for the company and is married to her), who is a bit of a ditz, that the big bails of hay in fields are cow eggs. When she came to a company event I was talking to her and the joke came up. Apparently he had never corrected the record and I had just assumed he had told her the truth and that had all had a laugh. Nope…
I had to tell a woman in her early 30s that, no, cows are mammals and give birth to their babies much like humans do. In fact, the platypus and echidnas are the only mammals that lay eggs. All other mammals give live birth.
In her defense she was a good sport about it and had a great sense of humor. When I told her this she went to my coworker laughing and jokingly “chewed him out”.
As a nurse, the amount of times I have to explain to people that AFAB patients have 3 holes, not 2.
Yes, Brazil is a real country.
That he should not put frozen hamburger patties in a toaster to unstick them.
Not a toaster oven, a toaster
What a shooting star was.
She thought it was when a star fell out of the sky. She was 29. Like the stars are fucking string lights hanging up there.
The ungodly amount of times I have had to tell people that no, those are not ticks on your cat/dog’s stomach. They are nipples. Also, the number of men who reply, “But he’s a BOY?!” Like…my goodest dude, YOU have nipples.
The total tax is the same whether you buy 2 items together or separately
I’m from Australia. I met another Aussie friend in London. She was out of breath as we walked up tower bridge. She then explained it was due to the altitude of london.
No darling, you travelled north, not up.
Explaining to my dad that him hitting me was domestic violence as he told me it was parenting
Locking the doors. Especially if there are people sleeping. I still can’t believe it.
We’re friends, you hurt my feelings, can you not do that again
I came back from vacation to a bunch of emails from one of my vendors because she couldn’t contact the shipping company I’d given her contact information for. She emailed me every day for a week. When I got back, I looked over the contact info I’d sent her and asked what problem she was having.
I’d given her phone numbers, but she doesn’t call, she needs an email.
I called and got her an email address in 5 minutes.
She was useless on this for a week because she wouldn’t or couldn’t or didn’t think to just pick up the fucking phone.
I was taking a new hire through on boarding forms on my computer when she started tapping my monitor. I said it’s not a touch screen and to use the mouse and keyboard. She looked at the desk then at me and said “what’s the mouse?”. She was 19 and this was in 2018. I asked how she didn’t know what it is and she explained that every device she has ever used was a touch screen and that she has never had to use one before.
I once worked at a hostel in Canada. One day, a guest paid for their room with American cash. I calculated the exchange rate and gave them their change in Canadian dollars. They looked puzzled and finally asked, “Wait… there’s different money here?”
I had to explain that yes, even though we both use dollars and cents, Canada has its own currency. She was young (still an adult) but completely shocked as it hit her that she was in a foreign country. She kind of freaked out.
“You have to boil the potatoes before you mash them.”
My mom is a sheltered white Christian suburban lady. She homeschooled me and my siblings from the 80s-2000s.
I had to explain to her in recent years that the democrats and republicans essentially switched sides ideologically since the civil war.
I had to explain to her that black people didn’t just suddenly get the same opportunities as white people after slavery. She was genuinely baffled by BLM and didn’t understand why anyone thought racism was still an issue.
I explained to her how the crack epidemic was propagated by our own government to destabilize black communities and disproportionately imprison black men. Even my staunchly conservative dad acknowledged this.
My mom was incredulous about all this stuff. She does not have dementia.
I once had to teach a 26 year old man who worked in a kitchen how to fry an egg. We used to do early starts and have breakfast about 10am, and he’d always get me to fry an egg for him. One morning I genuinely couldn’t be arsed, so I told him to fry his own egg, to which he replied “I don’t know how, I don’t know when it’s done”.
I was genuinely shocked that a man who ate a fried egg every morning couldn’t work out when one was finished cooking.
Back in the day when scanners were large A4 size gadgets I had to explain that one cannot simply lay down the screen of a digital camera on to the scanner for the pictures to scan.
That a product with “bovine placenta” is not vegan friendly.
That stop signs outlined in white (all of them) are, indeed, NOT optional.
That sharks are not attracted to women at the beach if they’re on their period.
That the yellow and the fluffy white flowers actually ARE both dandelions.
I worked for the water distribution company for about five years in customer service. I had to explain a few times why we dont provide hot water.
Same with billing. So many people who dont know the difference between debit and credit.
Explaining to my wife that the heater in the car is taking heat from the thousands of tiny explosions in the engine and using it to heat the car, not costing us more petrol but utilising the heat already produced. So many times.
Wireless thermostats need batteries. As a plumbing and heating engineer this gets wearing.
Turning on your heating but the thermostat is not high enough and explaining that it needs to be set high enough to call the boiler into action is something my mother has been explaining over the phone since the 70’s to customers so my father and then myself didn’t have to go to that person.
Flushing a toilet can be done with a bucket. It’s not an emergency.
If I’ve turned off your water the heating will still work.
Radiators will not run all day. The heating will come on with the thermostat and off when satisfied.
Radiators don’t get hot instantly.
The radiator may not get hot at all if it is further away than others when the thermostat is satisfied.
Heat from the sun will affect a thermostat.
Work in project management and the admin girl is now a tech. Had to re pave a parking lot and it had a storm drain in the middle of it, where all the rain would drain to, lowest part of the lot. After the new asphalt was in she comes to me and goes the storm drain has sunk! I looked at the pictures and had to explain how gravity worked and water draining to it lol.
She thought the Statue of Liberty was made of green plastic and she didn’t know what oxidation meant
If you put on someone else’s glasses, they are not wrong because YOU can’t see out of them. They aren’t made for you.
My daughter brought her boyfriend to dinner and he had no clue what a potato was.
I had to spell out for a coworker (who was mid 20’s at the time) how to spell the word ‘knob’.
Because I’m a sarcastic ass, I told him
“K, as in ‘knob’.
N, as in No shit, it’s a door knob.
O, as is Oh my God, you can’t spell knob?
B, as is ball.”
When I find myself explaining how tariffs work more than once per week.
I recently had to explain to a coworker that the people who were accused of witchcraft back in the day were innocent of the charges because magic isn’t real. I don’t know how old she is but I’d guess mid 30s?
I work events of the side of my regular job. I swear to fucking God people leave their brains at the door when they attend events. No matter the amount of planning, efficient flow of set up (were talking evidence based theory from higher level school teachings) signage, staff providing instructions etc etc etc people are like lost sheep.
Its actually mind blowing
My ex couldn’t (and so far as I know, still can’t today) understand why she was expected to repay the student loans she used as her primary source of ‘income’ for the 15 years she spent accumulating the most useless assortment of vanity degrees one could imagine.
‘Why would they let me borrow money I have no way of paying back?!’
I had to explain to a friend of a friend that wind is not created by tree leaves rustling together vigorously. To do this task without showing the outright judgment on my face was near impossible.
I was working for a publishing firm. A fax was coming in and I was standing behind the office manager waiting for the fax to complete when my eyes idly went to her computer screen. She had the accounting program up and she had the mailing program up and she was manually typing an address from the accounting program into the mailing program. I asked her why she didn’t just copy from the accounting program and paste into the mailing program instead of typing the whole thing out. She stared at me blankly. She had been the office manager of this publishing firm for over 10 years and she didn’t know about copy paste. Hundreds of boxes of books going out every day and she had typed every single address by hand until that moment.