From Period Products To Days In A Month — Here Are 19 Bewildering Times When Adults Didn't Grasp Extremely Common Concepts

Sometimes during a conversation, 1 realizes that the different idiosyncratic has misunderstood (or perchance ne'er adjacent learned) a communal conception passim their life. And portion we effort to explicate it to them, that doesn't mean it's not hilarious...

That's wherefore erstwhile I wrote an article a fewer weeks agone wherever women recalled the times they realized idiosyncratic successful their beingness didn't cognize basal info, women of the BuzzFeed Community felt compelled to stock their ain moments, and wow. Without further ado, present are 19 of their astir astonishing responses:

If you've ever had a "How did they not cognize that?" moment, consciousness escaped to archer america astir it successful the comments oregon reply utilizing this anonymous form!

1. "I erstwhile told my 40-year-old hubby that the idiosyncratic we were talking astir was from South Africa, and helium asked, 'I cognize that, but which country?' When I repeated that I meant South Africa, the country, helium laughed astatine maine and said, 'You cognize that's not a country, right? Just the confederate extremity of the continent. I privation to cognize what country.'"

2. "When we were kids, my sister and I discovered that our brother, who was 12–14 astatine the time, did not cognize the months of the year. When we asked him, helium named months successful nary discernible bid and counted them connected his fingers."

"He yet got astatine slightest nine, but my sister was inactive shocked, and I conscionable kept face-palming."

—awkwardwalrus62

3. "My bestie (a guy), who is the smartest idiosyncratic I know, thought for a portion that radical conscionable bleed perpetually connected their play — similar a changeless dripping for 7 days."

"He was rather shocked erstwhile helium learned astir individuals suffer astir a 4th cupful (five tablespoons) of humor TOTAL."

—wanderingstorm

4. "My hubby and I usage the aforesaid relationship for Macy’s. Once, I added a wireless bra to my cart portion buying online, but I didn’t bid it due to the fact that I inactive had to adhd much items. Later, my hubby (who’s a bundle engineer) was browsing and saw it. With a wholly superior face, helium said, 'Wait…bras person Bluetooth now? I didn’t cognize radical needed that!'"

5. "When my member and his woman were expecting their archetypal baby, the OB/GYN talked astir the babe turning to get into position, but my member didn’t understand."

"Turns out, helium thought the baby’s belly fastener and the mom's belly fastener were 'snapped' together. He had nary hint astir an umbilical cord."

—Anonymous, 65 Kansas

6. "I worked with a feline who didn't recognize that, but for February, each period had the aforesaid fig of days each twelvemonth (i.e., EVERY January had 31 days)."

"He had ne'er heard the mnemonic '30 days hath September, April, June, and November,' which helps america retrieve which months person 30 days alternatively of 31."

—Anonymous, 68, NJ

7. "In precocious school, we were successful French people reviewing animals erstwhile this kid, who was smart, raised his manus and asked the scary teacher (who different teachers were acrophobic of) however to separate betwixt antheral cows and pistillate cows."

8. "I was telling 1 of my friends successful assemblage however bully I thought frog legs tasted, and she asked maine what they looked like. I told her they were akin to chicken, conscionable smaller."

"With full sincerity, she asked, 'Why aren’t they green? Kermit is.'"

—Anonymous

9. "I person a comparative successful his mid-fifties with 3 kids, who erstwhile said successful a speech that ovarian eggs are stored successful boobs."

—1superherogirl

10. "My erstwhile fellow (now husband) was often confused erstwhile we started dating. One time, the propane vessel for his state grill was out, truthful helium said we couldn’t navigator our chickenhearted for meal unless we went retired (late astatine night) to unafraid different tank."

11. "A feline erstwhile proudly showed maine however helium was bandaging a atrocious chopped connected his arm. He didn’t person immoderate band-aids, truthful helium thought to himself, 'I cognize different happening that’s intended to sorb blood, I’ll usage a menstrual pad!' Which, successful theory, is not a atrocious idea."

"HOWEVER, helium had applied the adhesive broadside to his tegument (as 1 would bash with a band-aid), leaving the absorbent broadside connected the extracurricular and wholly useless to his bleeding arm.

Bless his heart."

—Anonymous, 56, FL

12. "A person erstwhile asked maine erstwhile my goat would springiness milk. I told her that it would hap aft she had a baby. She said she didn’t cognize that due to the fact that she thought they conscionable grew up and began giving milk."

"I asked her, 'Well, did you marque beverage earlier you had a baby?'"

—Anonymous, 70, MO

13. "I worked successful the hospitality manufacture erstwhile the pandemic happened. Since we were enactment successful quarantine and the hospitality manufacture was considered a luxury, we opened aboriginal than different companies — the schoolhouse holidays besides shifted to aboriginal dates owed to assorted factors. When it's a schoolhouse holiday, the edifice is usually astatine its busiest, truthful we telephone it 'high season.'"

14. "When I was a premed student, my laboratory spouse would pronounce thesaurus arsenic 'theo-SAURUS' similar a dinosaur. She was calved successful the US to English-speaking parents, and somehow, nary 1 ever corrected her."

"I didn't fto her cognize until graduation that she was pronouncing respective words incorrectly, including that one!"

—Anonymous, 41, Seattle, WA

15. "My dada thought babe carrots came retired of the crushed tiny. He didn't judge maine erstwhile I said they were shaved down from larger carrots."

"I convinced him eventually, but I inactive americium successful daze that helium ne'er knew that. "

—Anonymous, 27, CA

16. "Moved successful with my on-again/off-again fellow (mid-20s) successful August. One time successful January, helium complained that my chamber was ever importantly warmer than his, which helium couldn't fig retired due to the fact that some bedrooms were located connected the aforesaid broadside of the flat gathering and each had its ain heating register."

17. "My hubby and I person a mailbox with the reddish emblem you rise to bespeak you person outgoing mail. We enactment immoderate message successful the container and raised the reddish flag, but 3 days passed, and our message bearer inactive hadn't taken the mail."

"My hubby yet called the station bureau to find retired what was going connected (or perchance to complain), and it turns retired the message bearer didn’t cognize what it meant erstwhile the reddish emblem was raised connected the mailbox!"

—Anonymous, 60, Taylor, MI

18. "My precise champion person was selling her location and asked maine to assistance overgarment a fewer walls. We were 35 astatine the clip (she besides has a PhD and a child). She had each the supplies and was acceptable to go, but looked astatine maine similar a cervid successful headlights erstwhile it came clip to really paint."

"She had nary conception of opening the can, applying overgarment to the roller, and past rolling the roller connected the wall, and nary hint astir the bid of operations oregon truly however to bash it. She had truthful galore questions! It made maine grateful for the times successful my younker erstwhile I was forced into manual labour and location attraction chores.

By the extremity of the weekend, she was an expert."

—Anonymous, 41, St. Louis, MO

19. "In college, I had a person who seemed precise smart; 1 day, we were talking astir a country, and I mentioned the Atlantic Ocean. She asked which 1 that was. So I drew a (recognizable) representation of the satellite and said, 'Can you constituent to the Atlantic?' She could not."

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Note: Some responses person been edited for magnitude and/or clarity.