‘When did you realise you were dating an idiot?’ – 21 people unable to hide their monumental dumbness

12.

‘After being gone for a couple weeks, I returned to our shared apartment and noticed the toilet bowl had not been cleaned. I asked him what happened and he told me that he wasn’t going to stick his hand in the toilet just to clean it. We had cleaning gloves and a toilet brush available.

In recounting this story I realised that he was fine thinking I was doing that to clean the toilet but he was too good for that type of labour.’
–rombledink

13.

‘He had a tattoo of a compass where East and West were switched… he drew the tattoo.’
–m0nzar

14.

‘It was only our second or third date. We were chatting over dinner and somehow got on the topic of dinosaurs. He was perplexed by human survival against dinosaurs. He couldn’t figure out how we survived, and they didn’t.’
–Cold-Laugh-5242

15.

‘We were at the library and I heard her describe me as a ‘reader’ with an eye roll and a sigh when on the phone with her friend.’
–Pholly7

16.

‘He was very upset that his brother was getting a divorce because he was convinced it would turn his nephew gay.’
–WhelkInAChevyNova

17.

‘When I had to explain that the Statue of Liberty is green due to oxidized copper, and is not made of green plastic.’
–filthy_lucre

18.

‘I once dated a guy in high school (we were young) who acted incredulous when I asked him if I could have a tampon from his mom’s bathroom. He kept asking how old am I really and I was so confused. He thought that periods are like menopause and you have to be in your 50’s to have one…’
–tacosygatos13

19.

‘When she was perplexed upon seeing the moon and sun in the sky for the FIRST time at 19/20yrs old, right in front of me, and then continuing to explain that she didn’t know they were ‘separate’. I thought she was joking…she was not. Learned a valuable lesson that day.’
–Outcome-Electronic

20.

‘She thought we lived inside of the Earth, because if we lived on the outside, we’d just ‘fall off into space’. She said I was the idiot for not understanding how space works.

I had many questions. What do you think the sky is? Stars? The moon? Satellites? The SUN?? But in the end the only one that truly mattered was ‘why am I dating this person?”
–ConsciousAardvark949

21.

‘As we drove through China Town she asked me if China’s a country. She was like 30 at the time.’
–JustGimmeTheDopamine

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