People Are So Dumb
People are so dumb. You know it and I know it. And yet somehow, human stupidity can still manage to surprise us. We can't even believe how dumb some of these people are.
1. This Was Out Of The Ordinary
I was in an ASL class, and we were learning signs for different sodas. We went through them all, but the girl sitting next to me seemed to be a bit confused. She looked like she had a question but was just too scared to ask. So, I leaned over and said, "Are you alright? Did you miss one"? She looked at me and asked, "I get why we're learning sodas, but who is Dr. Pepper"?
2. Something Didn’t Gel Well
My friend once thought aloe vera was the name of some European model. Since cosmetic ads would always say the product name and add "with aloe vera"
as they showed a number of models washing their faces or whatnot in the background, he believed that aloe vera was one of them. He actually said something to the effect of, "It’s crazy how she gets hired for literally every single commercial".
3. Geography Was Not Their Strong Suit
I lived in Juneau, Alaska for a year. When the tourists started coming off the tour boats, that's when the real fun began. I often had people who would ask me why Alaska was cold and Hawaii was hot because "they’re next to each other on the map". It was shocking that even one person would ask such a thing, but countless tourists asking was unbearable.
I was also asked how to pet a bear. It was just wild.
4. Out Of Touch With Reality
I'm not the most well-off person. I work for slightly less than minimum wage, and live paycheck to paycheck. I used to have a friend that was very well off and her parents owned an extremely popular restaurant in the downtown area of my city.
They made her co-owner when her mom decided that position was too stressful for herself.
She went from making minimum wage to making at least $80,000 per year, and that would be a bad year. She also lived at home with her parents who paid her phone bill and didn't charge her rent.
Basically, her only expense was her car, and even then her dad would pay for everything but the gas. So, one day, I'm with this friend at a fast food place and I check my bank account to make sure I have the money for food.
Apparently, a few hours before, a bill had come out and I was now negative $45, so I told her I couldn't afford my food. She proceeded to humiliate me in front of the whole restaurant: "You're NEGATIVE $45? What? Can you even go negative in a bank account?" She demanded to see my bank account and I showed it to her. She said, "Wow. I mean…I ALWAYS have at least $1000 in my bank account for a rainy day fund. I can't even imagine being THAT poor".
