Yahoo Lifestyle "I Could Not Believe I Had To Explain This To Her": 15 Times People Were Flabbergasted When A Conversation Took A Turn For The Worst
While we all have our "off days," sometimes people may not know how certain common things work. So when Reddit user u/BlueCaracal asked, "What couldn't you believe you had to explain to another adult?" Over 20,000 people provided their answers. Here's what they had to say below.
1."Why a room below sea level on a cruise ship would not have a balcony."
2."That no matter how much you might want to put a camo pattern on your walls, you (not the paint) have to determine what that pattern looks like, and you will also have to purchase multiple cans of paint tinted differently because 'camo' doesn't come out of a can that way."
"Why didn't they just buy a wallpaper?"
"Tactical wallpaper."
3."My husband had to explain to a co-worker that she couldn’t take a train from the U.S. to Europe. She insisted she had to because she didn’t like flying."
"This is one of those times where eventually you just have to say, 'Ok, just make sure you send us which trains you're on so we know.' And 'Have a nice trip.'"
4."Volunteered in a charity shop. A lady came to the counter with a top and asked if I could look in the back for one of the same color but a larger size. I tried to explain we don't do that because we're a charity shop. She insisted that other shops, like H&M, have done that for her. She wouldn't take no for an answer. Eventually, I just went in the back for a few minutes, made a cup of tea for a co-worker, and came out saying we didn't have any. She got mad at that, too."
5."I had to explain to my mom that my daughter was growing in my uterus and not my stomach, so the hot sauce on my burrito wasn’t going to cause her skin burns. I also explained if she were growing in my stomach, my stomach would certainly cause way worse burns than hot sauce. It was then that I understood why the school nurse had to explain to me in 5th grade why I kept bleeding through my pants every month at school and not my mom."
"There was a US Senator who learned about cameras you could swallow to get images of the digestive system for medical analysis. He asked if the same technique could be used for women who might be pregnant to 'confirm the situation' as part of a campaign to make abortions illegal. He was told this was not possible 'because the stomach does not connect to the vagina.'"
6."North is not whichever way you’re facing!"
7."That you have to have a printer to print things at home. Tech support, and I wish I was lying."
"Did they think they could click print and it would come out of their computer, or did they expect it to appear on their desk in printed form as if by magic?"
"I had to bite my tongue and refrain from asking if he thought the print jobs were going to waft down from the ceiling or something."
8."Abraham Lincoln was assassinated and Italy is not a town in France. Same guy. My sister dated him for far too long."
9."When I worked at a doctor's clinic, I had a lady on the phone wanting to book an appointment to have her flu shot. She specifically asked it to be a telephone appointment. I could not believe that I had to explain to her that we could not inject her through the phone."
10."I worked in tech support for an internet provider a few years back. A woman calls in, complaining her wi-fi isn’t working. I go through the normal troubleshooting questions: what’s your device? How are you connected? And finally, 'What can you see on your screen?'
"Woman (W): It’s black
Me: How do you mean? Are you getting errors?
W: The whole screen is black.
Me: Have you turned the laptop on?
W: I can’t.
Me: …. Why not?
W: I’ve lost the charging cable.
Me: Ok, uh, do you have another device I can help you connect with? Maybe a tablet or your phone?
W: No, you need to get the laptop reconnected.
Me: …Can you go and buy another charging cable?
W: No, you need to send me one.
Me: We don’t supply them. Also, we didn’t supply you with your laptop. We just provide internet.
W: Yes, and now you’re not providing me internet, so you need to fix it.
This went on for 40 minutes, as my team around me stared in incoherent disbelief that this woman couldn’t understand why her internet provider couldn’t connect Wi-Fi to a computer without power.
I remember hanging up the phone and putting myself on break. My manager looked at me and told me to take a walk, barely hiding her unrestrained giggles."
"Having worked at an IT help desk, the first question we always asked was, 'Is your laptop, desktop, or printer powered on?' which usually made them mad. Many times, it was not on."
11."We cannot hold period blood in."
"My god, I had an old boss who would ask me if I couldn’t just 'hold it' when I had to run to the bathroom (I’m a bartender). No. One of the reasons a woman would go to the bathroom is 'un-holdable.'
Just last year, I became aware of the number of men who think you can’t urinate with a tampon in. They needed an explanation of how many holes a woman has down there. (Please continue making medical choices for me.)"
12."It was at work. I had to explain that if they didn't do their job, me or the next shift had to do it."
13."When I was in culinary school, I had someone ask me if their water was boiling. It was bubbling. I said yes.
14."That you can still get pregnant with the woman on top. 'Gravity doesn't work like that!'"
15."Raw meat juices, especially those of chicken, should in no way come in contact with other foods. I learned this in 8th grade home economics when I was 13 years old. I had to explain to a 40-year-old that, no, you can't put grilled chicken back on an unwashed cutting board that still has raw chicken juices."
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