People have been sharing the things they can’t believe they’ve had to tell other adults – 19 perplexing explanations
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‘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.’
-seifd
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‘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.’
-alilfallofrain_99
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‘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.’
-triviaqueen
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‘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.’
-PoisonWaffle3
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‘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.’
-okayestcounselor
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‘When I was in second grade (7 years old) we had a substitute teacher who was telling us about the sun and the moon, and how “the sun comes out during the day and the moon comes out at night.” So I raise my hand and ask why the moon is sometimes out during to daytime also, to which she responds, “that’s not possible since the moon only comes out after the sun goes down.” I tell her I’ve seen the moon out during the daytime, though, but she insists that’s impossible.
Then other kids start chiming in that they think they’ve seen the moon during the day too, and at this point the teacher is getting kinda upset and I think she thinks I’m just trying to be a class clown or something and get the class riled up. She says, “well I’ve never in my life seen the moon out during the day,” so I get up out of my seat and walk over to the window and point at the moon, clearly visible in the sky right there. The rest of the class jumps up out of their chairs to confirm lol.
The teacher seemed truly baffled at that point. Like, how in her 40 or so years of life had she never once noticed the moon in the sky?’
-urbanplowboy
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‘How a greeting card worked. Like, how a piece of paper could be folded in half to create an “outside” and “inside”.
One of those moments where my brain broke because I couldn’t figure out how to explain such a simple concept to a grown-ass upper manager at my job.’
-impeccadillo
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‘“You have to boil the potatoes before you mash them.”’
-FormalMango
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‘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.’
-TheNJGM
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