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The idea for the post popped into arual_x's head when they were reminiscing about a useless ex with a friend. "We were sharing stories and I thought it would be fun to hear other people's stories too," the Reddit user told Bored Panda. "I guess you can't know what you aren't taught or don't bother to learn, and there are plenty of ways the modern world reduces the need to learn how to do things. If you can microwave something, why learn to cook? If you can pay someone else to do it, or someone else has always done something for you, why would you bother to learn to do it yourself?"

You know, when they said "Wear a facemask, make it cover both your mouth and nose, don't touch it, wash your hands and stay home"?

Yeah, simple instructions, and a whole load of people can't follow them properly. That is messed up.

Final score:

462points

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TrickQuestion 3 years ago

And those are the people complaining about things being shut down longer. If you'd just listened, it would have been a LOT easier to open things back up earlier.

47points

My roommate was making brownies from a box. The instructions said to grease the bottom of the pan before pouring in the batter. You bet your ass they picked up the pan, flipped it over, greased the BOTTOM of it, flipped it back over and poured in the brownie batter.

TopRamenisha , Katy Report

Final score:

423points

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Tracy Baparam 3 years ago

Love this one

124points

shadownights23x , Matthew Paul Argall Report

If after going through the list, you discover that you too lack some of these skills, don't worry. It's never too late to learn. I know that sounds cliché but that is what literature suggests. Tchiki Davis, Ph.D., for example, said that you can build pretty much any skill to improve yourself—your emotions, thoughts, or behaviors.

"It doesn't really matter which skills you want to improve; the key to personal development is taking the right steps—steps that help ensure that you reach whatever goal you are pursuing," the consultant, writer, and expert on well-being, said.

Had a guy constantly asking what time it is...by the 6th time I said "bro,there is a clock right there" he said " I don't know how to read it...grown ass man..

Couple weeks later on facebook someone shared a picture of cursive writing he made fun of the people who couldn't read it...I posted a picture of a clock and said what time does this say...he blocked me

Final score:

408points

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Karl Baxter 3 years ago

Surprisingly common among a generation who grew up with digital watches

120points

Co-worker announced she was pregnant, then immediately said she was sad that she couldn’t take a bath until the baby was born. I stared, confused, and asked “Why can’t you take a bath?” She looked at me as though I was stupid and said, “Because the baby will drown!” I had to walk away.

natgoeshome , Solveig Osk Report

Final score:

395points

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Botox 3 years ago

And no more peeing! It's the same hole, you don't want to pee over baby O_0

199points

What are the most important personal skills? Well, Davis said it really depends on what you're trying to achieve. It makes little sense to learn how to code if you don't plan to be a coder or to bench press 400 pounds if you don't plan to be a weight lifter. Personal development is more about building skills to reach your personal goals. Here is a 9-step program that Davis has found to be important to successful personal development.

"The science is clear," she said. "The more ways we develop ourselves, the broader our skillset, and the more success we tend to have. So try learning some new emotional skills or do some activities to build new skills. You just might learn something that changes your life."

Oh I have a really funny one, I hope it doesn't get buried!

Years ago, I bought a friend an electric kettle as a gift. Her boyfriend (who I'm still friends with and who passed along this story) came home one night to find her running out the front door of their apartment with the flaming kettle, and she threw it into the street.

She was screaming about how it was a piece of junk because when she put it on the stove, over a flame, it caught fire and started to melt.

He was laughing uncontrollably when he asked, "what did you think the cord was for?"

They broke up soon after.

ilikeyourswatch , Lee Haywood Report

Final score:

393points

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Raine Soo 3 years ago

The kettle snafu was a warning sign. And, the boyfriend heeded it.

87points

My relative tried to put her son on the school bus his first day of kindergarten and got upset when the driver refused to let him on because he wasn't on the list. She never registered him for school and just thought she could put him on the bus and send him.

whotiesyourshoes , Neeta Lind Report

Final score:

360points

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Sum Guy 3 years ago

This is funny and also sad

253points

Coming back to arual_x, the Reddit user said that, "even the most put-together people are probably lacking somewhere." And it's hard to disagree. Life is so multi-dimensional, you can't do everything.

"The stories might be hilarious but they're so commonplace that everyone has something like this to be embarrassed about and maybe everyone should focus on self-improvement ever so often," arual_x added.

When my friend bought a house, a month into home ownership, she asked me when the city was coming to cut her lawn because it was starting to look like weeds. It was awkward when I had to explain that she needs to cut her own lawn or hire someone.

theantpantsdance , Nick Richards Report

Final score:

348points

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Nikki Sevven 3 years ago

I'm pretty sure these are my neighbors. They moved in 18 months ago and haven't mowed the lawn once. Currently, it's a tangled mess of sweet grass, bittersweet, and poison ivy that harbors copious ticks, fleas, and mice. I'm going to have to call the city and report a nuisance, since the stuff is edging its way into my yard.

13points

eternalsunshine85 , Swithun Crowe Report

I asked my husband to make some herbal tea for me the first year we were married. I walked into the kitchen to find him standing over the stove with a mug of water sitting directly on the burner.

Final score:

336points

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Botox 3 years ago

This should be higher than pasta!

69points

#10

My wonderful, selfless, beautiful younger brother asked me how to make ice last year. He's 24.

Cat_Vonnegut , liz west Report

Final score:

317points

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Kanishka Patel 3 years ago

Was he joking?

91points

Winterlight8044 , Martin Abegglen Report

#11

My ex–best friend told me that she had needed to buy another new vacuum cleaner, which was the third that month. I asked her what was wrong with it and she said, 'It's not picking things up anymore!' So I asked if she had dumped out the container. She didn't know that was a thing.

Final score:

310points

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ADHORTATOR 3 years ago

RTFM!

53points

#12

My Mom and I moved in with my Grandparents when I was 10 years old. You know, old enough to have learned how to do some basic chores, and certainly old enough to be taught more. Unfortunately my Grandmother, God bless her, was not only terrified of fire (her Mother had a problem with accidentally setting things on fire) but she was also a neat freak that insisted on doing everything herself so it was done right.

My Mom married my (step)Dad when I was 14 years old, and we moved in to a house together as a family. He was horrified to learn that, at nearly 15 years old, I did not know how to wash and dry my own clothes, iron, load a dishwasher, or even use the stove. I could use the oven because I baked with my other Grandmother when I visited, but I had never used the stove top. There are many more things he had to teach me, but those were the things that really had him worried about my ability to care for myself as an adult. It wasn't that my Grandmother didn't want me to be able to care for myself. Her fears were just so intense that she didn't think about how not knowing these basic skills would effect me later in life. I am forever grateful to my Dad for being the Dad I needed because God knows the biological one couldn't be bothered. Mom couldn't overrule her own Mother when we lived with her and by the time she married Dad she was sleeping at the hospital five nights a week because her schedule was so insane. I dont even want to think about who I would be if I hadn't had him to teach me, but I'm pretty sure I would have had to live off of chocolate chip cookies, brownies, and take out through my 20s if it weren't for him. I probably would've smelled pretty bad from the lack of clean clothes too.

WhoDatKrit , Andrew Pantyukhin Report

Final score:

289points

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Ozacoter 3 years ago

Its great that he learnt, altought being 14 and not knwing these isnt that uncommon I think.

130points

#13

In my honors dorm at Purdue there was a Computer Science major named Jeffrey. He was well known because his parents would stop by every week to pick up his laundry and bring him a case of Fiji water with expensive groceries. His dad was a doctor. We commented on Jeffrey's long gross toenails and how he needs to cut them. He told us they are long because his mom hasn't visited in weeks and she was the one who cut them. His mother cut her 19 year old sons toenails. Disgusting. We had to give him a lesson on it.

Drum-Major , Chun Kit To Report

Final score:

287points

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Raine Soo 3 years ago

Are some people so mollycoddled to the point of ineptness?

232points

rabbles-of-roses , Thomas van de Weerd Report

#14

My housemate (24 year old postgrad student) not realising that

You needed to preheat an oven.

You needed to defrost frozen meat before cooking it.

You need to use a baking tray.

After I caught her lining the bottom of our oven with frozen chicken drumsticks.

Final score:

280points

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N G 3 years ago (edited)

You can cook certain prepared meat from frozen. Otherwise innumerable ready meals wouldn't be.

77points

#15

My ex and I were cooking together and one of the pans got too hot, and we had a minor grease fire.

She grabbed a bag of flour.

As tempted as I was to slap it out of her hands, I didn't want to aerate a bunch of flour next to a grease fire, so I grabbed it with both hands and forced it (and her, because she wouldn't let go) over to the countertop, and then dropped the lid on the pan.

I asked her what her logic was, and she said "well, you're supposed to put baking soda on a grease fire and not water, right?".

"Yes. Why did you try to use flour?"

"What's the difference? They're both white powder."

walkingknight , State Farm Report

Final score:

276points

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Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago

So lucky you got that flour off her in time. You may not be alive to tell this story.

210points

#16

My roommate tried to make pasta by putting a pot on the stove, pouring the noodles in without adding water, and turning on the stove. Then she asked me, 'How come these aren’t getting soft like when my mom makes them?

TopRamenisha , Marco Verch Report

Final score:

247points

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Little Ms. Quirky 3 years ago

Oh dear- I hope your roommate learnt how to boil water

112points

#17

My best friend was sleeping with a new guy. She said she wasn’t sure of his sexual history but she was on birth control to prevent STDs. I was like, 'Umm...'

slohomo , Brianna Laugher Report

Final score:

245points

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Little Ms. Quirky 3 years ago

ummm....

70points

BamboozledBigTIme , Navy Medicine Report

#18

Ooohhh I got one. I work as an EMT for a private company, so we mostly deal with nursing homes and the elderly. One day when I was about 6-8 months in, I got assigned a partner who was in my orientation class. He was a little older than me at the time, like mid 20's, but he seemed a little childish. "Maybe he's just sheltered, I think to myself."

Anyways, we got a patient I've had a few times before. She was a sweet, little old lady with COPD and CHF living at an assisted living. Call was for pneumonia. She's prone to this stuff so it wasnt a huge deal, slap her on oxygen and keep her sitting up til we get to the hospital. The first red flag though, was this kid didn't know anything. He didnt know how to take a blood pressure. He couldn't find the medical history or medication on the paperwork (which is clearly labeled). He didn't even push the stretcher, just walked next to it with a hand on it. When I asked him about all that, he said "My partners usually do that for me."

So, I put her on an oxygen mask and sit her all the way up, mildly agitated. I tell myself it's just one shift with this kid. He's in the back with her and I tell him to just switch the oxygen from the bag (which is a small tank) to the main tank (which is huge) because with the amount of oxygen we're giving her, the bag will run out not even halfway before the hospital. It's about 25 minutes, which normally wouldn't be a huge deal. But when we pull up to the hospital and I open the back doors, I'm fucking shook. The oxygen mask isnt inflated (meaning she isnt getting oxygen), shes pale as shit, I can literally see her accessory muscles moving, struggling to breathe. And this kid was sitting behind her, with a clueless half smile on his face, looks at me and says "The main tank is broken, so I left her on the bag." This women, who needs oxygen without pneumonia, was barely breathing for at LEAST 15 minutes. And this fucking idiot didnt even check. We take her into the hospital. I ask him to find an oxygen tank while explain to this women's daughter what happened. He says he doesn't know where to look. I fucking find it and told him to talk to the daughter.

When it's all said and done, I check to see what's broken. He didn't turn on the tank.

TL;DR EMT partner nearly kills a patient because he didn't know he had to open the oxygen tank to get oxygen to come out.

Final score:

244points

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Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago

How did he even get the job in the first place and I hope he was bloody fired after that.

407points

Martin Kaine 3 years ago

"Fake it til you make it" is not a mantra for those going in the medical profession.

54points

Seabeast 3 years ago

I have met two people in my life who flat-out lied to get a job they had no qualifications for - but thankfully neither was in a medical profession.

12points

Alla Boutamy 2 years ago

Online only education?

0points

N G 3 years ago

Ok, the TL;DR is still too short because this needed to have ended with "so I reported him and he was fired" 😡😠🤬

51points

Rissie 3 years ago

If you see someone that you don't trust in the first place, don't put them in a position where they are responsible for other people's lives. I'm sorry but at some point enough flags are raised to not proceed with an idiot like this.

35points

Vicky Zar 3 years ago

Exactly

10points

Vicky Zar 3 years ago

The more experienced person should not have given the "kid" such an important task without either watching him or checking afterwards. He DID say the kid had no clue, so why depend on him?

22points

Megan Johnson 3 years ago

It sounds to me like the pro was driving so kid was in back. I could be wrong.

8points

Forty Seven Pandas 3 years ago

I blame whoever trained him and let him have a job

20points

Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago

Was he the ambulance service owner’s idiot son?

19points

Night Owl 3 years ago

OK, the other stories were somewhat funny. But this one is ... I have no words

16points

WildBerry 3 years ago

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

Please tell me this man was banned from being near other humans?

16points

Ember 3 years ago

I hope you reported him for his dangerous lack of knowledge and common sense

16points

Dave P 3 years ago

How did he pass his certification exam and pass the licencing board? I know EMT's in the a few countries (including the US where I am), you need in all 50 states in the US you not only need to pass a certified course, but pass an exam, and get licenced by a state board.

15points

Steph 3 years ago

There is a difference between certified and qualified. I am not sure what it is like in the states, but in Canada, you can pass licensing with book smarts and no practical experience. You do have to do some on car practical shifts, but trainees are paired with two experienced EMTs, and it is only for 10 or 12 shifts.

1point

Meike H 3 years ago

What happened after??!!! Did you report this??!!

10points

WildBerry 3 years ago

He isn't telling the truth here. No EMT who passed his certification would do something this stupid. No EMT would not be able to take a blood pressure as he claims either. Furthermore, if the 'rookie' was so unable to provide care, why did the OP put him in the back with the patient?!!! The OP should have been with the patient and the rookie should drive. This story is bull.

1point

Steph 3 years ago

Honestly, I am also an EMT and I have very similar horror stories, including one almost carbon copy of this. Switch out COPD for active GI bleed (low red blood cell counts need lots of 02) and boom, my experience. Truth; ambulance services hire anyone with a pulse who can warm a seat. Not all of my coworkers care enough to keep their skills up.

9points

WildBerry 3 years ago

They have to keep their skills up here. Where do you live? You don't need to recert? You don't need your CEUs? Bullsh1t

0points

CatWoman312 3 years ago

I hope you immediately complained on him. He needs to be fired immediately! He’s going to kill someone

9points

WildBerry 3 years ago

Both need firing. The OP should have made the other guy drive and stayed with the patient if he saw the other guy was unable to provide care. I don't believe this story. It's fake.

2points

Tracy Sellars 3 years ago

I hope he was fired

9points

WildBerry 3 years ago

HIm and the OP should both be fired.

0points

Princess Toadstool 3 years ago

That’s scary.. I wouldn’t be surprised if he lost his job after

6points

Amy Pattie 3 years ago

Was this man secretly a con artist in some elaborate heist??? Because he seriously seems like he knows nothing

4points

KT 3 years ago

WTF....how did he make it that far where he could be left alone with a patient in the back? Honestly I find this very hard to believe this story

3points

WildBerry 3 years ago

Thank you!! I think it's fake too. I've got EMTs and Paramedics in my family and this kind of thing DOES NOT happen. It's also on the OP not to have taken responsibility for being with the patient and letting the other guy drive if he thought the other guy was such a poor EMT. THis story isn't true.

1point

Dark Pigeon 3 years ago

How the hell did he get the job? Did he even got any medical training? Really want to know more about this story

2points

Deborah Witt 3 years ago

He is lucky that poor woman was not my dad...though she would have been better off if she had been since he would have taken care of switching to the main tank to breathe before chewing out the clueless guy.

1point

Hogswallop 3 years ago

Not an EMT, but I've come across nurses like this. They had to pass either a TAFE course or university degree to become an Endorsed Enrolled Nurse or Registered Nurse respectively. Some people, even after years of practice, are still not good at their job.

1point

Michelle Muirhead 3 years ago

Can't believe this one.

1point

WildBerry 3 years ago

It's fake. I call bull on this one.

0points

lara 3 years ago

However did he get a license?

1point

Hollysmom 3 years ago

That's terrifying. How did he get the job? I hope you reported it/him and didn't just let it slide.

1point

The Chosen One 3 years ago

please tell me he was fired

1point

Cybele Spanjaard 3 years ago

How was it he was in that position to start with no training?

0points

Marie-José Renaud 3 years ago

I had to take typing tests and language tests and computer proficiency tests before being hired as a secretary. Isn't therre testing done before hiring EMTS or paramedics?

0points

Kelzbelz79 3 years ago

This is shocking!!

0points

Whawhawhatsis 3 years ago

I note that this tale came from the military. In which case it is highly plausible -- training doesn't always work and the standards may not be the same (even though they should), especially if the students had a poor teacher for their training. It really varies. I was married to a military guy for years and saw everything from total expert to total incompetent working in the same facility. I have no problem at all believing this story!

0points

LMS 3 years ago

I hope like hell you turned him in for ineptness immediately after this incident!

0points

Christine Temple 3 years ago

Scary.

0points

JJM 3 years ago

Obviously not qualified to do the job. Who hired him in the first place?

0points

Damon Hill 3 years ago

Had an EMT tell me my head got cut in a car wreck because I wasn't wearing my seat belt. I got T boned, had I had it on I would've been cut in half because the anchor point for the belt was pushed in and back 18". My head got cut by a piece of molding as it passed by. I'm glad my injuries weren't life threatening. It's no telling what this buffoon would or wouldn't have done.

0points

Vicki Perizzolo 3 years ago

he should be sent back to school (or to school since it sounds like he never actually went)

0points

Granny 3 years ago

Does't this job require aome training

0points

Lynn Morello 3 years ago

What happened to all the training they are supposed to receive?

0points

Carol Waltman 3 years ago

I hooe he is fired

0points

Osprey 3 years ago

My daughter had a worse experience, the EMT that arrived in the abmulance kept telling her she had the flu, her feet were blue, she couldn't take a full breath, he then told her it was $800.00 ride for nothing. She insisted to go to the hospital and she is diagnose with COVID19 Pneumonia. The doctors said if she hadn't have come in right then, her kids would have woken up to a dead mother.

0points

Denise Toler 3 years ago

I'm a senior so this is scary that someone so incompetent could be in charge of my life.

0points

moeless 3 years ago

Social promotion? Graduation?

0points

Basil Ignatov 3 years ago

Seriously?!?! I'm not even a medic and i could do that! I hope the story ends with someone getting fired. I've been reanimated a few weeks back, and i'd hate to have had a dunce like this working on me!

0points

WildBerry 3 years ago

This story is fake.

0points

Azure Adams 3 years ago

Tell me you reported all this to a supervisor immediately after the call. That idiot should have never been hired ever!!!

0points

WildBerry 3 years ago

They're both idiots, including the idiot OP who faked this story.

0points

Michelle Muirhead 3 years ago

No! This can't be real!

0points

Nyneva Kyte 3 years ago

WHAT THE ACTUAL F**K

0points

ANNIKAH MARTINEZ 3 years ago

his stupid a$$ = FIRED

0points

Jackie Nettleton 3 years ago

I hope he was fired for gross incompetence

0points

Paradise 3 years ago

I hope he was reported

0points

DogMom 3 years ago

Sounds like a guy that I work with

0points

WildBerry 3 years ago

Bull

0points

BabaBizzle 3 years ago

You better have reported him to the bosses and made sure he was trained properly or fired!

-1point

(Fake)BoredPandaIsAwesome 3 years ago

My moms a nurse and she has told stories about Idiot doctors/Nurses/EMTs like this. My god.

-1point

Angela Turrall 3 years ago (edited)

OK agree with all the comments on the idiot, BUT this person could tell they didn't know what they were doing, AND knowing how important it was that the patient received oxygen, didn't stop to make sure the idiot knew how to transfer from the bag to the bottle correctly and turn the tank on? Both at fault, and I hope they also took some responsibility. I don't want to hear it was the other person's job either, in these cases they're both responsible especially when it's something so simple as spending a minute to check the bottle was open before they jumped in to drive. TL;DR EMT partners BOTH nearly killed a patient, one because he didn't know he had to open the oxygen tank, and the other because they were too pissed at their EMT partner to give proper care to a patient.

-1point

WildBerry 3 years ago

Absolutely the OP is at fault too... if this story is real. I don't think it is. I have EMTs and Paramedics in my family. THis wouldn't happen because they have to pass cert tests and get recerted in various things every year to 2 yrs. This story is a bunch of bull. Furthermore, there was nothing stopping him from doing other treatments to her and he doesn't mention that... a neb treatment for one. He should have been in the back with her not the other guy.

0points

#19

Girl I went to HS with: “why do people say a quarter of an hour? Like what does that even mean?”

Me: “it’s 15 minutes. Because 15 is a fourth of 60, so that’s a quarter of an hour”

Her: looking at me like I’m a f**king idiot “But a quarter is 25...”

Me: ...

maekae_ , Chris Jobling Report

Final score:

239points

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troufaki13 3 years ago

Wait til she finds out that a quarter of 50 is 12.5

62points

#20

My friend in college once lamented, 'Ugh. I have to pee and I just put a tampon in like five minutes ago. I hate having to pull them out dry.' Her mother taught her that there is only one hole down there and peeing with a tampon in isn't possible.

BroffaloSoldier , SouthernSun Report

Final score:

237points

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Kari Panda 3 years ago

At first, I read 'pull them out TO dry' and that was a very disturbing thought.

190points

#21

A girl I knew in college had her dad call to remind her to put oil in her truck. She did and then her truck started smelling like french fries and died. She couldn't understand that this was directly related to the quart of vegetable oil she put in the motor.

snowman818 , Matthew Paul Argall Report

Final score:

215points

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Sum Guy 3 years ago

Somehow, I don't blame people who do this.

31points

#22

I remember when I first started dating my now husband, I was hanging out at his apartment waiting for him to get out of work. His place was a bit messy so I decided I’d tidy up for him a bit.

Fast forward to the next morning and he comes in a little shocked.

“Why would you load the dishwasher like...that”

I had never had a dishwasher before in my life lmao. We’re talking cups facing up, big ass pans shoved in, the whole nine yards. Thank god he stuck with me lol

kay37892 , Joanna Bourne Report

Final score:

209points

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Kari Panda 3 years ago

Can’t blame this person :) If they never had a dish washer, it‘s understandable that they wouldn’t know.

159points

#23

I had a roommate at university who’s “cooking” method was put baked beans in a Tupperware, seal the lid, turn on microwave, when lid pops and explodes beans everywhere they’re cooked.

Thejustinset , Scott Veg Report

Final score:

201points

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Raine Soo 3 years ago

A Cordon Bleu chef, I see.

118points

#24

Don't think this aligns with your question, but while visiting my friend I found out he preheat his microwave.

Arodriguez2356 , Billy Mabray Report

Final score:

201points

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Amy Pattie 3 years ago

Hey, better pre heating your microwave than forgetting to pre heat your oven

41points

GotGhostsInMyBlood , Michael Eccles Report

#25

I had to ask my roommate to please wash his hands after touching raw chicken. He thought it was fine to just go about his day before I asked.

Final score:

198points

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Kermit frog 3 years ago

that is so unsanitary oh my lord

110points

#26

College roommate did not know how to wash his body.

Yes. The SMELL.

After a week we threatened him. He took a “shower”.

We sent him back again. With soap.

Three days later he stank again. We told him to shower every day.

Then we taught him how to do laundry. And bought him a coat because he did not own one. In cleveland. In the winter.

Full genius dude, invented a WiFi security standard later on. But no idea how to care for himself.

cbelt3 Report

Final score:

194points

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Gurnox 3 years ago

Where were their parents? Poor dude.

121points

#27

My dad couldn't spread butter on his toast when he met my mom.

PhD in neuroscience? No problem.

Building a successful business? Piece of cake.

Spreading butter on a bagel? Talk about unrealistic expectations.

Banksy0726 , Joanna Bourne Report

Final score:

192points

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troufaki13 3 years ago

H- how is that even possible??

95points

ReddishWedding2018 , Motaz Altahir Report

#28

My friend who was almost 40 had never paid a bill before. When she got divorced and lived on her own for the first time, I got a text from her asking if my power was out too. She realized it was just her and her excuse was she never paid attention to the bills because she thought they were receipts and that the cost was included in her rent.

Final score:

188points

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nanashi 3 years ago

this is why everyone, regardless of gender or age, needs to be independent and don't rely 100% on a single person. you could never know what will happen in the future if that person is no longer in the picture, and then you're left with zero common skills and knowledge.

72points

#29

My friend from college tried making burrito bowls for dinner and complained that some of the onions were weirdly chewy. She didn't know onions need to be peeled.

thompsme , Paul Hudson Report

Final score:

186points

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Batgirl Kitty 3 years ago

Extra crunch.

11points

cynicalkerfuffle , Fredrik Rubensson Report

#30

This 19-year-old guy asked me how to cook a fried egg. I gave him instructions and when he came back, he said it took a few attempts because the yolk kept breaking and he thought breaking the yolk made the egg poisonous.

Final score:

183points

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Little Ms. Quirky 3 years ago

has that guy ever tasted a fried egg before?

79points

#31

One of my roommates in college would melt plastic spatulas like crazy. She'd always say it was due to the spatula being made of cheap plastic, but I finally caught her one day. She'd be cooking something and would walk away LEAVING THE PLASTIC SPATULA IN THE PAN WHILE IT WAS STILL ON!

Fantastic_Relief , Didriks Report

Final score:

182points

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Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago

That'll do it.

83points

#32

Oh gosh, I have a few from when I first went to university, living in halls and realising some people literally did not know how to cook a THING.

There was one girl who bought chicken and kept it in the cupboard, despite being told by pretty much everyone else in the flat that it was meant to go in the fridge or freezer. Flat out refused to listen, kept putting it in the cupboard. Don't know how she didn't get sick.

Another flatmate who didn't eat potato for almost a year because he didn't know how to peel them and didn't want to try (I tried to teach him). Then he realised he could buy pre-prepared.

One guy who decided to take a nap whilst cooking sausages for dinner, just left them in the grill and only woke up when the fire alarms were going off and the whole building was being evacuated.

Finally two girls who again almost caused a fire if I hadn't found them... These two were actually my friends and I was looking for them, found them in one of the kitchens about to "cook" a stir fry. They had a wok with about an inch depth of oil in the bottom, SHIMMERING because it was so hot, and they weren't sure if it was hot enough to cook with yet. They were really glad I found them because they couldn't tell that it was boiling oil and were worried the food wouldn't cook. I was really glad I found them because if they had thrown their stir fry veg in there it would have probably caused a fire, or at least spat boiling oil all over them. I turned it off and tossed one piece of veg in there - turned black almost instantly.

Honestly I was just shocked and appalled that so many 18 year olds had never cooked for themselves before, and even worse that their parents had sent them off to fend for themselves not having taught them. It's actually scary thinking back!

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AnimalsRuleHumansDrool 3 years ago

The skin on a potato is fine

110points

#33

Not sure if I'd call it "horrifying," but pretty ridiculous, nonetheless. It's about me. I just moved into my first home in February of this year. I live alone and am single. Earlier this month I mowed my lawn for the first time. I have never mowed a lawn before, but I'm thinking, how hard can it be? (The answer: not hard at all). Prior to that, I had roped my brother into coming over and doing it for me, but this time I figured I need to actually learn. The lawnmower is an old push mower of my dad's that he had brought over about a month ago, and he quickly gave me the rundown on how to use it, but I was half paying attention, plus..it's a lawnmower.

So anyway, I go to start it up, takes me at least 10 tries of pulling the cord as hard as I can with no luck until finally it fires up. I then proceed to begin mowing, and I KNOW this thing is self-propelling - it says so right on it, but I cannot, for the life of me, figure out why it's so hard to push. The wheels aren't locked or anything, so I just figure it's a combination of me not having much upper body strength and my lawn having a lot of uneven spots/divots that prevented the mower from moving smoothly. I finally finish, sweating my ass off like I had just finished seriously working out (my yard is very small...even I finished the front and back in about a half hour-40 mins). Upon reflection, I'm still not convinced that the mower was self-propelling. I mean I know I'm not strong and am somewhat petite, but STILL. So I'm sharing this story with friends and co-workers like wtf did I do wrong and they're all asking me about this lever, and I'm like yeah, obviously I had to hold the lever down or the motor kills. Well, turns out there's a SECOND lever that you have to squeeze in order to propel the lawnmower.

I manually pushed that MFer around my whole yard, divots, hills and all, ended up with a blister on my thumb, and sweating profusely through my shirt. Not to mention the few times I stopped it and had to re-start it, I pulled the cord literally at least 20 times to get it to start again; I was waiting for one of my neighbors to come over and ask me if I needed help, the struggle was THAT obvious (I also learned about the little button that you push a few times to make starting easier).

So yeah, mowed today, and let's just say that things went SIGNIFICANTLY better than last time. Growing up, my dad or brother would mow, and in college up until now, I have always lived in apartments or duplexes, nothing that requires residents to do any lawn care. So, at the age of 32, I have finally learned to use a lawnmower.

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Ozacoter 3 years ago

Thats quite reasonable. You couldnt know.

98points

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#34

I had to jump a friend's car that wouldn’t start. After we finally got it running, she immediately turns off the car and said, 'Thanks so much, I’ll call you later!'

Final score:

157points

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Димитър Пенев 3 years ago

C’mon. That’s acceptable.

42points

#35

This is like 10 years ago. I was dating a 32 year old and he asked me if I wanted to get together to watch a TV show. I said sure, what time is it on. He looks it up and says to me "8 Pacific 9 Central...?"

I asked what was confusing him and he told me he wasn't sure if the show was on at 8 or 9. My man did not know what timezone we lived in.

So I was like "Ok, well you know what ocean we're near, right?" cuz I was trying to get him to think about the Pacific timezone in terms of the giant body of water for which it was named and he immediately got defensive and for real said "Why would I know that? I'm from Texas."

He'd been living in San Francisco for 5 years and could see the Pacific Ocean out his window.

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Javiera Gotelli 3 years ago

What an idiot

45points

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#36

When I first met my Ex he didn't know how to cook. 40 something year old at the time I met him. He only knew how to use a microwave and the best thing he thought of cooking was chicken thighs.

Chicken thighs cooked in the microwave, everything was cooked in the microwave. Wet, soggy, colorless flesh with no flavoring, that's not how it works, that not how any cooking should be done.

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154points

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Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago

Sounds bloody awful.

84points

#37

I took a food safety course and someone asked if they could wash a turkey with dish soap.

SaltyJerm , juliegomoll Report

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153points

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Adam C 3 years ago

You CAN but should not.

171points

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#38

I had spent the night at my ex boyfriend's place and stayed a bit longer in the morning to help clean the house. I was folding some clothes when I noticed him go from one side of the bed to another without actually doing anything. I looked at him and he looked clueless. He said "can you please make the bed? I've never done this, no idea where to start". I didn't mean to have a strong reaction to it but man did it leave me speechless... he was 26 at the time. That day I realized his mother often visited his house to make the bed and clean... Yeah...

Final score:

148points

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StrawberryParfait 3 years ago

Leave him where you found him. He's looking for another mommy to look after him.

42points

#39

Three months into our freshman year of college a friend of mine developed a rash. I suggested he look into hypoallergenic sheets and swap out his others. His response: "I've used the same sheets since we moved in, it's not the sheets." Mind you, not the same of sheets, but the same exact sheets unchanged and slept/eaten upon/etc. for three months.

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Javiera Gotelli 3 years ago

Gross!

72points

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#40

I guess we were still in high school, but we were 18. Me and my buddy Ferris were just getting into going to the gym. We went with Ferris’s friend Tom. After working out, in the changing room during some small talk I saw Tom putting on a shirt. Tom put the shirt over his head, but didn’t put his arms through the sleeves. He managed to pull the shirt over his torso so that it was adequately on before wiggling all about and bending his arms in odd ways to get them into the sleeves. I didn’t take much notice to it the first few times. But after a few months it was apparent he did this every single time. Tom didn’t know how to put on a shirt. At least efficiently. Eventually we asked Tom why he put his shirt on like that, and he said something along the lines of “Wait what, don’t I do it the same way you guys do?” I guess he had never really thought about it before then.

Final score:

140points

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Ozacoter 3 years ago

Thats sad. His parebts failed him.

59points

#41

Someone told me that their husband would put shampoo in their hair and not rinse after applying. The husband for his entire life wondered why his hair was always greasy.

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139points

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troufaki13 3 years ago

Whatever happened to common sense???

84points

#42

Every few weeks, I catch my roommate trying to put his metal tea strainer in the microwave in spite of the fact that our first week living in this apartment, he destroyed the microwave doing this.

MeesterPepper , Toshiyuki IMAI Report

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138points

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Tracy Baparam 3 years ago

Why was he putting a tea strainer in the microwave???

84points

#43

My wife's entire family did not grasp that you need to put water in a steam iron.

hadleybox , Quinn Dombrowski Report

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133points

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Rose the Cook 3 years ago

I knew a woman who refused to put water in the iron because she feared she would be electrocuted.

86points

#44

First year at uni, a girl in my hall was microwaving some food and left it in the metal foil container. It took three fire engines to put out the fire and we had to have a new kitchen installed.

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129points

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Sum Guy 3 years ago

Also something that is not wildly known... my coworker was heating food with the fork in his food the other day

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#45

I had to teach my boss how to go down to the next line by hitting 'Enter' on his computer keyboard.

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122points

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Vic 3 years ago

"I had to teach my boss how to go down" the line break appears at the most unfortunate place on my phone.

92points

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#46

This is in part due to being rich enough to be out of touch and in part a general lack of general adult skills.

In college, I had a friend named Mally, She was a couple years younger than the rest of the people in our group and still lived at home with her parents due to their very strict culture and beliefs about how an unmarried woman should not live away from home. But her dad was a doctor and also had family money so they were quite wealthy for our area. The sort of wealthy where for her 16th birthday, they bought her a porsche and when they didn't think she thanked them adequately for it, they returned it.

Anyway, I remember when the group of us were at some of the guys' on-campus apartment, their toilet clogged. Mally, without really blinking, said we should call our plumber to get it fixed. Of course the guys were like "Uh, no? It's just clogged. Why would we call a plumber?" to which Mally, who was very confused replied, "Because that's what plumbers do? Why would you do it yourself?"

So we then explained first, how expensive plumbers are, and second, how the average person does not call a plumber for a slightly clogged toilet.

Mally was confused and then asked, "Well, what do you do when a light bulb burns out? Change it yourself?" and obviously, we were all nodding and saying "Yeah, absolutely."

So that was when we discovered just how sheltered and out of touch Mally was with how normal people do things. We specifically learned that she didn't know how to do laundry, change a light bulb, plunge a toilet, cook literally anything, put gas in her car all because either their maids did it for her (also worth noting: having maids is extremely rare in our area) or her dad did. It blew her mind when we explained that those are very normal things to know how to do and ended up showing her how to do all those things. She really hated it but it did a lot to make her a more self-reliant adult. Her parents really sheltered her so much so it wasn't totally her fault.

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Gin Marie 3 years ago

They kept her at home and ignorant because such a woman would be too clueless to rebel---or resist. There was a case where an Austrian princess was kept so ignorant that a footman impregnated her because she had no idea what sex was or anything. She was tossed into the street by the same people who set her up to be taken advantage of. Queen Mary----the present Queen of England's grandmother----took her in.

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#47

My coworker: "My laptop dies every weekend and has no charge on monday morning even though it is always plugged in. I shut it down every friday night and then turn off the power strip. It has to be broken!! Give me a new one!"

Me: *checking system info* "this computer hasn't been rebooted in 36 hrs. You left it on all weekend with the powerstrip off, so that is why the battery died."

My coworker: "i don't think that's right"

Me: *facedesk*

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unknown mechanic 3 years ago

That *facedesk* got me

35points

#48

Okay this is not quite a whilst adulting but...

For as long as I can remember, my father had red eyes after showering. I didn't even think about it. One day as a teenager a friend slept over and in the morning she saw my dad dressed and ready for work, freshly showered, red-eyed. She asked him why his eyes were red and he simply said "shampoo." She then very carefully and as respectfully as she could muster asked him why he didn't close his eyes, and he laughed and said "what do you think, I'm an idiot? Closing my eyes in the shower! Sheesh!"

My dad did a lot of things that embarrassed me... But that one was prettttty high up there.

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Ozacoter 3 years ago

His reaction was rude. But some people is very sensible. Me and my father obviously close our eyes but often get red eyes from the water.

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#49

I had to teach my friend how to tie his shoes, he either wore velcro or tucked the laces into the shoe up until that point.

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39points

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Kari Panda 3 years ago

Why... why would his parents never teach him? Why would he never feel the desire to learn it? (Albeit, maybe he was just too embarrassed to ask after a certain age.)

34points

#50

There's a scary amount of people that apparently don't know A.M. from P.M. and try to schedule car service at or after midnight.

EyeofAnger , Sunghwan Yoon Report

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39points

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ADHORTATOR 3 years ago

you could use military time

32points

#51

Freshman year in college. Had a roommate who was older, 20, because he went to a junior college for 2 years first. He started dating this girl and after a few months they decided to have sex. He asked if we could talk because the night had come for this planned encounter. He was a virgin and had questions. Pretty normal conversation until he asked, “How do I know when to stop?”.

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Hotdogking 3 years ago

This is why sex education is important people

26points

#52

In my early 20s I was really poor. I lived across from a dollar general and would frequent it for odds and ends, frequently. There was a 18-22 year old girl who worked the cash register who I assumed was on the spectrum of sorts. She couldn’t make eye contact, was very obviously socially awkward. She was also often very dirty and always smelled of BO. It was always weird to me because they sold deodorant. She also had one arm, hand that was much smaller and less mobile than the other. I was always kind to her, despite her being the slowest on the cash register, part to her physical speed capabilities, part to her painful customer interactions. She constantly over shared, uncomfortably. It was what it was. It didn’t bother me. I honestly felt bad for the girl, and would occasionally see bruises on her smaller hand/arm and wondered if she was abused. One day I walked into the good ol’ DG, looking to pick up some cleaning supplies and shampoo, and saw they had a clothing sale. Before you judge, I was pooooor, and they didn’t have the worst clothing. The sale was that certain color- stickered items were $1. I browsed and actually found 5 things that weren’t too terrible- some pajamas, some leggings, a piece of athletic wear. I brought up all my items, waited for a while as the girl was at the register, and brought up my 5- $1 clothing items, a spray cleaner, and a bottle of shampoo- both of which were also $1. She scanned them in and said “$53.” I kind of anticipated this, so I pointed to the literal three signs about the sale right around the register. There must have been 25 signs through the small store. I wasn’t angry. She looked at me, and I explained the sticker color matches the sale and they need to be discounted. She thinks for a good long while, looking at the register, clearly in pain and not knowing what to do. Eventually, she scans the 7 items again, hits a bunch of buttons, then says, “Ok! $24.” I was absolutely flabbergasted. I knew she was slower, but discovering that she couldn’t figure out 5+2 should be 7 (and tax), absolutely shocked me and truly bummed me out. Myself and the customer behind me just stared, not knowing what to do for far too long. I eventually asked if there was anyone else working who could help. She used the store phone to call in another coworker back in from their break. I stoped seeing her after a while, which was to be expected. I think of her often. I hope she’s ok.

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Ozacoter 3 years ago

Poor girl. I hope that she found a good place.

33points

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#53

I had a friend who I noticed took Mucinex A LOT. I’ve used it occasionally, when I’ve been congested, but it seemed abnormal how often I saw him taking it. I finally asked him why he was taking it one time, because he didn’t seem sick at all, and he looked puzzled and said “well, I think I’m getting sick”. I pressed further and he said “because it’s an expectorant”. It turns out he thought “you take an expectorant when you are EXPECTING to get sick”.

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Aria Singh 3 years ago

NOOO! If you take too much of that medication when you are not sick, then your body becomes immune to that medication. If you actually get sick, that medication will not work. (Also taking that when you are not sick, can actually make you sick.)

11points

#54

Training a new girl at work and she told me she didn't know how to sweep. I had to show her.

Training a new girl at work, her dishes often still greasy after being washed, I asked her about it and I asked her when she puts the soap on and she replied, straight faced, 'oh... You use soap here?' (we had raw meat on many of those dishes.)

My ex told me he 'thought mixing dark and light loads of laundry was a myth' after destroying a bunch of my clothes. He also told me soaking dishes had no affect...

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34points

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Ozacoter 3 years ago

I found one of my ex roomates using the sink sponge to clean the toilet. The worst part is that she was like 50yo :(

20points

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#55

Frying an egg.

He was in culinary school. When tasked with “egg day” where they just cook eggs multiple times in multiple styles to get the basis of the techniques involved; he had gently plopped an egg (shell and all) into a buttered pan. His reasoning was that the heat of the pan will melt away the shell.

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33points

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago

Don’t you have to demonstrate at least basic cooking skills just to get IN to culinary school? Or did his parents donate an oven or something to buy his way in...

9points

#56

Worked at an on campus store that sold a lot of essentials for students living at dorms. I had one girl ask me what laundry detergent was because she never did laundry. She asked if I could help her do her laundry but I declined as I couldn't leave the register, which of course she was mad about. Sorry I have to actually do my job lady.

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Sista of the moon 3 years ago

Wow...

5points

#57

I have a couple.

I once had my exes parents coming over, and needed some help cleaning the house up to get ready for their arrival. I asked my ex to clean the bathroom for me whilst I cleaned the kitchen, and left him to it. I went in about a half an hour later and the bathroom was somehow dirtier, but the ex was sitting on the couch chilling. When I asked him why he hadn’t cleaned the bathroom, he looked at me all confused and said he had. I asked him to come in and pointed out all the soap scum everywhere and how it was clearly not clean. He reiterated that he’d cleaned it. I asked him to show me how.

He proceeded to pick up a bar of soap, lather up his hands real good, and just... rub everything. He didn’t even rinse it after. Just rubbed everything with soapy hands. And couldn’t understand why I was staring at him open mouthed.

Same guy, a few months later. I asked him to mash some potatoes I’d boiled whilst I plated up dinner. He very literally did so, without draining out the water. Again, he didn’t think what he’d done was in any way wrong, despite the weird texture and look of the potatoes.

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32points

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Ozacoter 3 years ago

The potatoes I can understand. But the soap one? Seriously? Doesnt he rinse his hands when he washes them? If he does...

27points

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#58

I asked a friend to put a pot of pasta on while I showered after a long day. Had to run out of the shower dripping wet when the smoke alarm went off. He didn't know you put pasta in boiling water. He didn't know you put pasta in water at all. He just threw hard raw pasta in a pot and put it on the stove. Guy was 23 and a computer scientist. Pretty sure he's at Microsoft now.

Thinking about it now, maybe it was my fault for giving a programmer bad instructions

DatGuyDatHangsOut Report

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31points

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Guido Pisano 3 years ago

cookPasta(int amount){ putWaterInPan(); putPanOnTheStowe(); turnStoweOn(); while(!waterIsBoiling){ Thread.wait(5000); } putPastaInPan(amount); //etc }

62points

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#59

Was making dinner with my ex and her mom. They were talking about how they forgot to put on a can of corn to go with the meal, but that's ok, they can just microwave it right? First it took two of them to use the can opener, as in they took turns because "the cans are so strong". Look over and they have the can cut almost all the way around...but not around the lid, its this weird, wavy, up and down the side of the can way, basically took the last fifth of the can right off. I stare at them, but dont say anything because, hey, not my house, they've gotten this far why point it out now and go back to what I'm doing. Moments later they congratulate themselves and move on to the next step...which apparently to BOTH of them was just sticking the can straight in the microwave. Seconds later lots of bright flashes, both of them leap away the microwave so I have to come around the table and do the oh so heroic task of hitting the open button and stop the potential meltdown. The rest of the dinner was them so shocked that metal reacts like that in a microwave, yes, even forks or spoons would do that and how amazed they were its never happened before. Flash forward a year and they're buying a new microwave. Turns out they've bought ALL their microwaves from this one store and the owner was surprised it's been so long. Turns out, hes a great guy, always helps them find the best deals and even jokes about how the extended warranty is for suckers.

Final score:

30points

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Sista of the moon 3 years ago

Ok story: i was once at a summer camp, and it was at a private catholic school, so of course they had microwaves in the cafeteria. The counselors let us use them to warm up our lunch, as long as it was microwave safe. I made sure to take microwaveable Tupperware. One girl (probably 8 or so) got a little microwave-happy and then decided to microwave her METAL THERMOS which ended in what sounded like a gunshot, a shook room of kids, a dirty broken microwave, an exploded thermos, no lunch for this girl, and no more microwaving for anyone. I will never forget :(

15points

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#60

my girlfriend refuses to accept how stds work and believes they randomly appear out of nowhere and even when i tell her they spread from person to person, she says, "that's not possible, where did the first person get it" so i explain it, in detail, and she just goes, you're only making me feel stupid, you always do this and then doesn't talk to me for ages.

TL;DR my gf refuses to accept scientific fact about stds and then blames me for making her feel stupid

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29points

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Jaime 3 years ago

Ohh that’s not a great sign for a relationship. Good communication is important.

34points

#61

Before the shutdown happened, I was working in a bar. We had this kid who got hired as a barback and he apparently just couldn't keep up. It was a pretty busy place, especially on the weekends, and barbacks had to be on top of shit constantly. After about three weeks, management decides he isn't gonna cut it as a barback and pushes him into the kitchen with me. I was glad to have help because we always had issues with keeping cooks on for some reason.

Holy shit. This kid could not do anything. He lacked basic common sense for practically everything. We started him on fry station but he would fuck up the most basic of tasks; he didn't even know how to make fries. I told him how to do our catfish (3 planks tossed in corn mill and flour), he tossed the first two but then dropped the third in completely bare. I asked him why he did that and he had no answer. Then we tried putting him on grill - he couldn't make toast or toast buns; he would always burn them! Last we tried having him run center and call out tickets but it seemed like he could barely read. There were multiple times I had to kick him out of the kitchen because he was so slow or just completely zone out.

One of the servers was his cousin and she told me that both his dad and brother had to fire him from separate jobs because he wouldn't do his shit or wouldn't show up. Then of course one night, he was still out back after he clocked out and was talking to someone at length about doing mushrooms and acid; guess we know why he can't hold down a job.

Told him to do something one night while I ran to the restroom; came back and he was gone. Good riddance. Brandon, if you're reading this, I hate your guts.

voltwaffle Report

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29points

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Anna McHugh 3 years ago

It sounds like he had a low IQ. It's quite possible for someone to function socially by emulating the behaviour of others around them, and having a reasonable stock of conventional phrases and behaviours, but not actually have the processing power to manage complex tasks - and you'd be surprised what counts as a complex task. However, this should probably have been picked up during schooling; it's not fair on others who have to work with someone who has an undiagnosed condition.

17points

#62

This isn't just one person, but I've come to the realization that many adults no longer have the ability to read a map or follow simple driving directions to a new place as they're completely reliant on GPS telling them when and where to turn. Two instances that stand out:

A person in my office building was standing at the door asking everyone coming and going if they'd seen a carmount GPS unit in the parking lot as they'd lost it bringing it in somehow. They were sobbing so I figured it must be an expensive model. I asked what it was but it was cheap and helped them look around under cars to see if we could find it during which we talked. They were crying over the price of losing it. They were crying because they didn't know how they'd get home that night without it. Couldn't drive home from their job they'd worked at for months with a GPS telling them how.

I was out with a friend doing some shopping in a part of a city we'd never been to before. We were in the parking lot of store A and wanted to get to store B which we could see but there wasn't a connected road between the two. Friend punches in the store on their iphone to get directions and it gives of a 30 minute route that includes 2 toll roads. I thought there was no way it should take that much driving to get there so I looked google maps and saw we could do drive it in about 3 minutes by going two stores over and exiting from the back of that stores parking lot onto the road that leads to store B. They could not look at the map and then translate it to the real world, despite that we could literally see all the features we needed to follow. He ended up taking the 30 minutes route and paying the tolls because he didn't trust the map.

I've seen a lot of other experiences similar to this but those are the two that always stand out to me.

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28points

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Linus Nilsson 3 years ago

This predates commercial GPS, when I went to school we often did orienteering i PE, the amount of kids that couldn't even read a map were staggering. The teachers often took the easy way out by grouping the ones that couldn't read a map with us who could.

11points

#63

This is going to sound weird, but manage a budget. Or just in general being money smart.

One of my old roommates was really bright academically, but he was terrible with money. Each semester he would start off with a pile of cash from his parents and proceed to blow through it in about two months.

I first noticed it with his dining dollars on campus. Every day it seemed like he would buy the most expensive sushi option on campus everyday. We're talking maybe $18.00 which isn't terrible if it's once in a while, but this was every day. It's also college dining hall sushi, so the quality was also just okay without even considering the money spent. Of course around midterms when his dining dollars would run out and he'd sort of panic and whine that he couldn't afford anything. But what was so strange, is that when he would start to run low, he's sort of laugh about not knowing anyway we could avoid going broke while continuing to buy only the most expensive option. But he'd also get really defensive when people wanted to talk to him about this.

Eventually when he moved off campus it was the same thing. For the first two months he'd feast. He'd get delivery constantly, ordering just way too much food, and of course he'd never share it. But then once he'd nearly run out of cash, he'd buy like an emergency 50 pack of hot dogs and only eat that for the rest of the semester, while telling everyone else that they were lucky they had money to spend, and how not everyone had it so easy when it comes to money. He'd never directly say it, but there were always a lot of implied insults.

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27points

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago

Please don’t tell me he was an Econ, Accounting, Marketing, or Business major. Please, nothing to do with money; managing, budgeting, investing, purchasing, etc.

14points

#64

I had to explain and show to my older brother that you can and should clean your Philips beard trimmer from inside the little bits as well.

We both got the same exact model as a gift on christmas I think, and ye turns out he hadnt opened up and cleaned the little rotary bits the entire time he had it (years, literally years, at least 5), and was complaining how it's very slow and probably needs to be replaced with a new one. I thought ''thats weird, mine is around the same age and is still perfectly fine'', so I turn it on and it makes this very gritty sound like the machine is so slow as if its dying and stuff even though it's fully charged. I open it up and goddam the little rotary blades were so clogged up with years old dust and hairs it was a miracle the thing was still working at all. Turns out he didnt even know you can open them. I cleaned it all nice and clean and the thing started working good again (as much as it can) afterwards.

Read instructions please before you disregard something as broken, like goddam.

potatoslasher Report

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27points

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)

So. Damn. True. Routine maintenance save you loads of money. Also, sometimes it’s a really cheap part that makes something seem to be completely broken. My husband is in pest control, so is at people’s houses treating them for whatever bugs or vermin are causing problems. He has been given so many “broken” power tools, small appliances, and other gadgets that people thought couldn’t be fixed, it’s ridiculous. He brings them home, takes them into the garage to his workshop, takes them apart, piece by piece, cleans them up, and figures out what’s broken or out of alignment. So, for the sake of a simple clean up and/or alignment, or ordering a really cheap part from the manufacturer or supplier, he has a nice leaf blower, table saw (used twice by previous owner, who also gave my husband the multiple accessories), a drill set with case, one of those chicken house fans (lots of chicken farms in our area), etc, etc, etc. He’s probably spent less than $10 on replacement parts for all of them.

15points

#65

As someone in IT, we get a lot of this. I don't know what it is about machines, but when a perfectly intelligent but non IT person is in front of one, their brains just seem to turn off.

"I tried to close the window and it's asking me if I'm sure if I want to close it! What do I do?"

or

"I have this green cable and have plugged it into the blue port. Why isn't it working?"

and finally.

"The laptop doesn't work anymore! It's just blank, no matter what buttons I push." A minute later of me fiddling with the machine and 'fixing' it. "Wait, there's a power button?"

casualfreeguy Report

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26points

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Ryan Deschanel 3 years ago

"Are you sure you want to close this window?" is the greatest self-confidence test.

5points

#66

60 year old woman was shocked that I bought 12 cans at once.

Then she was shocked again to find out buying in bulk is cheaper.

She has always been a stay-at-home mom and aggressively identifies as frugal.

BigApricots Report

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago

Depends on her SES. Buying in bulk does save in the long run, but it takes a large initial investment to get started. Maybe her husband didn’t make a lot of money, she stayed home because it was cheaper than working and putting multiple kids in daycare, so she had a tiny grocery budget, and could only buy small numbers of things at a time. Even if her husband eventually made more money, she stayed in that original mindset. Or she was just not a thinking person. Who knows?

7points

#67

My apartment neighbor:

-thought you had to pay for the ice in the ice maker in the fridge

-thought he could bake cookies on a wooden cutting board in the oven

-thought that raising the seat on his bike would make his legs longer and thus make him taller

-lived there for two weeks before realizing they had an oven

yinyang2000 Report

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25points

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Anna McHugh 3 years ago (edited)

OK the wooden cutting board thing is true, at a pinch. If the oven's not too hot and you're desperate, you can use a wooden board. EDIT: and it's an electric oven. Do not do this with a gas oven.

11points

#68

An older friend of mine didn’t know what a wireless mouse was or how to use it , he was holding it in his hand and waving it in the air, trying to get information on screen like Tom Cruise in Minority Report .

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25points

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Robert T 3 years ago

Or Scotty in Star Trek IV thinking it was a microphone.

9points

#69

My mother in law still doesnt know the difference between right and left. When giving her directions i have to say "like the hand you write with" if she needs to go right. She also doesnt know the difference between north, south, east and west even though we live on an island where there are different elements (mountains and volcanoes) in each direction

Papa_Smjordeig , Sean MacEntee Report

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24points

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Sum Guy 3 years ago

That's a medical condition she most likely can't control

51points

#70

Our kitchen sink has one tap, two things (don't know what they're actually called) for hot and cold. I walked into the kitchen and my partner kept switching between hot and cold. Asked him why.... " Well the hot gets too hot so I run the cold instead for a bit" HE DIDNT KNOW YOU COULD RUN THE HOT AND COLD WATER AT THE SAME TIME!?!?

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JennyLaRue 3 years ago (edited)

One faucet (where the water comes out) and those "things" you turn, are the taps.

31points

#71

A friend of mine kept his ssc and birth certificate in his wallet and lost it. Luckily nothing ever came off it and he replaced them but you'd be surprised how many people think it's okay to keep their sensitive documents in their wallet rather than in a safe location at home

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Sasy 3 years ago

In oz before photo ID and if you didn't drive you carried your birth certificate in your wallet for id. This is 80s and before though, but I could see that being not so odd to some.

1point

#72

So some background info, my dad is a mechanic so I've been very lucky to have the importance of vehicle maintenance drilled into my head from a young age... when my now fiance and I were dating for about 6 months I needed to change the oil in my car so I asked when the last time she had changed her oil, she had never changed it after owning the car for 3 years.

I immediately brought it to my dad's place as I wasn't sure what to expect... we decided to add oil to properly flush it once we changed the oil a week later, it took 3.5 quarts of oil and the engine only holds 4 quarts total

Car still runs 2 years of regular oil changes later... to paraphrase my dad it speaks to the quality of Kia/Hyundai engines since most cars would have seized up given how low it was for so long

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19points

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Rod Egret 3 years ago

That's the Japanese and Korean engines superior quality...

12points

#73

My ex- He didn’t know how to hold a fork properly. All utensils were used by grasping it in a fist

Also didn’t know how to open up baby wipes. He tore open the bag (it has a lid so they don’t dry out). He ignored the lid.

Didn’t know how to merge or change lanes. He wouldn’t check blind spots or accelerate. Would actually frequently slow down and turn into cars. I attribute his lack of accidents to other safe drivers on the road. He would, instead, use a blinker when backing out of parking spaces!!!?!! So people knew which way he was backing out at???

Didn’t know to rinse vegetables or fruits before eating. Basic shit. Like how!?!? Don’t get me started on any food prep...

I often felt like a parent more than a partner and it got old. Constantly having to teach him things he was never told or taught.

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19points

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Dutchdancemum 3 years ago

How did he pass his driving exam?

18points

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#74

My friend getting ready to microwave leftover fish with tin foil covering the top. He was about to press start when I managed to get to him.

Final score:

19points

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Sista of the moon 3 years ago

Disaster in three... two... one...

12points

#75

Some teenagers that used to work for me didn’t know how tell time. They said why should they learn when everything is digital now. This was 10+ years ago

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that rando_;) 3 years ago

People learn how to tell the time in Elementary.

7points

#76

Worked in a restaurant with a revolving door of employees. Apparently, once when two of them were asked to sweep the dining room, one of them swept and the other held the dustpan. And yes, we had multiple brooms and dustpans. Oh and in college, some people would put tide pods in the detergent tray of the washing machines and/or put the dryer sheet in the lint tray of the dryers.

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18points

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#77

In third semester of SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, and quite a few in my class didn't know Ctrl+C, Ctrl,+V, Ctrl+F and a lot of other very basic computer stuff. Blew my mind. Half a semester of online classes, assignments and exams later, everyone knows this shit now

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Ryan Deschanel 3 years ago

It is not a knowledge which magically appears in your mind.

8points

#78

Explaining to a 35 year old male friend that condoms aren’t 100% effective and means you could use one and the other person could get pregnant. Next was that condom means you can get lower chances of stds but herpes in another location could occur if they have an outbreak. I felt like I needed a slide show. It was like I butchered the Easter bunny and fed it to him as stew.

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14points

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Kiss Army Premium 3 years ago

Had a friend who thought that two condoms would be much safer than than just one... Like, no dude friction can tear them, just one is way safer. Blew his mind he still didn't quite believe me because I'm "just a girl".

3points

#79

I came home from school one day and a roommate of mine is frantically fanning away smoke from the stove. Turns out he was trying to cook pasta and just heated up the stove with no water and put the pasta straight into a hot pot. I was utterly baffled

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13points

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I want cake 3 years ago

This seems to happen a lot

21points

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Ekate 3 years ago

Most of these seem like the result of parenting fails.

50points

Ozacoter 3 years ago

Yes. At least until their 18-20s its the parents fault for neglecting thei education. After that I blame them for never bothering to learn. My parents never cared about teaching me and my sis anything but I learned to cook, clean and do laundry because I was too independent to let mother do it. My sister never learned how to cook or put the washing machine until she was 21 and left for Erasmus. I taught her the basics.

20points

Alan Green 3 years ago

Yes and schools teaching useless things like how Oxbow lakes are formed instead of life skills that actually matter.

2points

SeidWolf 3 years ago

yes, but also HUGE basic logic fails and proof folks rather "guess" or remain ignorant than actually do something radical like Look It Up. Its not like any of these entries are pre-internet or pre-library.

1point

Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

Agreed. I can't imagine letting even my *godkids* get to high school without knowing how to do most of this, and to know to read the box/manual/etc. if they don't.

1point

Amazon QT 3 years ago

I second that!!!! Or children that didn’t listen to their parents.

0points

Anna Repp 3 years ago

Or a result of growing up in a different country. Or growing up poor. Not knowing how to put water in a steam iron or how to load a dishwasher??? Get off your pedestal, you commenter, not all people are as fortunate as you are.

0points

Helen Haley 3 years ago

Most of this is a cases of 'you don't know what you don't know'. Some of it is neglect from when they were kids, some of it is over-privilege.

18points

Ryan Deschanel 3 years ago

That was... a lot of spoiled pasta.

10points

Ozacoter 3 years ago

I met a lot of adults that never learned to clean or do laundry. I lived with a 21yo that didnt knew how to do anything. But ok he was still young and it was the first time that he lived alone, so I taught him to use the washing machine. But then I lived with a 30+yo that also didnt know how to wash his clothes, he gave them to his mum. He barely could cook, never cleaned and tried to get me to fix his tshirt (because as a woman I must take careof him). I offered to teach him but he refused. He also never paid rent and used all my gel, shampoo and stuff. F*****g parasite.

8points

A Head 3 years ago

One good thing about being a "latchkey" kid (both of my parents worked from when I was a very young age, so I was on my own a lot), was that I was able to cook and clean and do my own laundry from a pretty young age - 7 or 8. I did most of that for years - my wife makes most of the money, so I do most of the housework - but have reached the point where the kids (13 and 14) each cook one dinner a week, load and unload the dishwasher, and wash their own clothes. It's nice.

6points

Seabeast 3 years ago

I wasn't a latchkey kid, but growing up in a large family meant that if I wanted non-lumpy porridge in the morning, I'd better be the one to stand there stirring it constantly. We were all taught to cook at a young age in part so that we could take some of the workload off my mother.

2points

Martha Meyer 3 years ago

I was a latchkey kid and had no clue how to do any of these things, except cook a bit, until I went to uni.

1point

person (i think) 3 years ago

I love the idea that your kids each cook a dinner a week! My brother and i helped cook and stuff but were never put in charge of an entire meal and I think that is such a wonderful concept.

0points

Sam Yobado 3 years ago

I blew up a bunch of balloons for a party in university. They were all just covering the floor. The roommate of the birthday girl came over to me and said, “Lets inhale some of these balloon so we can change our voices.” He had watched me inflate them with my breath. He had no idea about helium, he thought it was some sort of balloon magic that made peoples voices change.

6points

Sasy 3 years ago

That is cute.

1point

Chich 3 years ago (edited)

Years back I worked for a forestry contractor. Lots of being in the bush in a tent. One job, I was sent with a new Forester a few days ahead of the main group to check the area out, find a camp spot etc. On the way we talked and I commented on how it was surprising that people got into forestry work but could not do anything as basic as set up camp, light a Coleman stove or get a lantern going. Anyway. I had to drop him off with all the gear and head into a nearby town to find a phone (long before cellphones). Came back a few hours later and found him sitting on the still packed camping gear eating a can of cold beans in the dark.

6points

JitkaBlitka 3 years ago (edited)

Well, I have an understanding for people who weren't taught basic skills at home and are struggling when they're first on their own. But what baffles me are people welI in their adulthood just refusing to learn simple stuff and depending on others to take care of them. I know a women in her 40s, mum and a teacher, otherwise perfectly able to take care about herself, her kids and her job, but who can't fill the fuel tank in her car. When she runs out of fueI, she tells her husband and he drives the car to the pump and fills it in. I really don't understand how can she live like that... like it's not rocket science for god's sake...

5points

Jods 3 years ago

My sister’s one of those who has never filled up with petrol before. Neither does know where the windscreen wash reservoir is. I doubt she even knows where the bonnet release lever is.

1point

Alan Green 3 years ago (edited)

Years ago I shared a house with a mate of mine. Often when I used the washing machine I would find detergent still in the machines detergent drawer. Sometimes my mate would complain that his clothes smelled funny even though he'd just cleaned them. . . after months, or possibly even a year, one day I asked what setting he uses when washing. "Setting???, what do you mean setting??" He asked. I explained how the dial with numbers and symbols on it works. He said "Oh, I've just been turning the dial until I hear the machine start up then leave it to it" so he was often doing a basic rinse with no detergent.

5points

Tracy Sellars 3 years ago

I have one the Australians will appreciate. One afternoon a good friend was explaining how she was going on holiday from Melbourne (Victoria) to Hobart (Tasmania) and wanted to know if she needed a passport. We still laugh about it.

4points

Daniel Marsh 3 years ago

I overheard a housemate tell another one to let the stove "heat up" for a while by turning the GAS on for a few minutes before lighting it. HE WAS A CHEF!

4points

denzoren 3 years ago

We never had use for a microwave growing up, we would usually use the stove or the oven to heat anything. So my first week at uni I had to heat some naan bread and I thought well it takes about 20minutes to cook so I'll but it for 20minutes. Only to get super hard slightly charred bread. My roommates had a good laugh about it and were actually quite understanding.

4points

Fluffy Griffin 3 years ago

Not a super huge fail, but I was trying to make anise cookies (using an old family recipe) for the first time without my mom. I was maybe 14. The recipe called for baking soda and baking powder. I asked my dad about it and he said baking soda is for cleaning, just put the baking powder in. Those cookies came out sooooooo flat.

3points

Rae Reyn 3 years ago

My grandmother firmly believed that if you didn't have something in an electrical socket, electricity would leak out. Every socket in her house had something plugged in.

3points

Izzy_ 3 years ago

When I moved to college, I tried making hamburger helper for the first time (I thought it was a novelty as I would always see it on TV ads) I was very disappointed and left hungry after I realized the meat isn't included in the box (I thought it would be dehydrated meat or something) hahaha now I know why it's called hamburger "helper" XD I grew up with home cooked meals, my parents never bought frozen stuff as those didn't exist in their country where they grew up.

3points

Fluffy Griffin 3 years ago

When my friend was in his mid 20s, I was helping him clean his house. He got out the vacuum, plugged it in, and then was stepping randomly on the front. I asked what he was doing and he said "my mom steps on it to make it start"...

2points

Treessimontrees 3 years ago

People think doing everything for their kids is a form of love. It's not. They're raising life idiots.

2points

Ben Steinberg 3 years ago

I haven't taught my kids much, but I've taught them how to f**king cook pasta without burning it, that's for sure...

2points

Elsker 3 years ago

at my office, sometimes when poeople run out of dishwashercubes, they just put in liquid dishwashing soap. I vote to bring back household chores/domestic sciense as a school subject, since appearantly parents don't always get the job done.

2points

Ula 3 years ago

I did that once, foam was all over the kitchen. I didnt know, never had a dishwasher.

0points

Daria Z 3 years ago

Most of them look like a plain lack of common sense. It can happen to anyone when they're tired.

2points

Adriana Coppage 3 years ago

to anyone who believes that all these people are from the USA, I want to clear up that not everyone in the US has an IQ of 20 and that there is a share of idiots in every country.

1point

Jo Choto 3 years ago

I feel so sorry for the kids who are sent out into the world by parents who have literally taught them nothing useful.

1point

Moosy Girl 3 years ago

I want to one day be as fearless as all these people who just try things without first reading the instructions 5 times or more.

1point

A Random Panda 3 years ago

I'll share mine. A couple years back, we had this big bottle of Pantene shampoo and conditioner. I would use it for both washing and conditionering my hair. During the week or so that I used it, my mom would comment that my hair was greasy. So one day, when she said that again, I rushed to the bathroom and checked the bottle. It was CONDITIONER. Like, literally nowhere on the bottle did it say shampoo. I was an Idion lol.

1point

Michelle Muirhead 3 years ago

I believe in Darwinism!

1point

AlanandLeila Hoyt 3 years ago

Worked at a home for adults with disabilities and one time in the winter my coworker went to warm up the company van for the clients. I went to the garage and realized he hadn’t opened the garage or taken out the van, just ran it in the closed garage for 20 minutes. Didn’t understand what the problem was even after I explained it to him.

1point

Seabeast 3 years ago (edited)

I wonder if some of this is from families getting smaller and smaller? In the days of large families, parents could hardly wait until you could take some of the work of cooking, laundry, and yard work off their hands. So they started teaching you at about age 11 or 12.

1point

Lisa T 3 years ago

I remember being about 14 and at my friends house and she decided to make fried rice. The rice was really hard because she had fried it, but not boiled it first to cook it. I also found a piece of plastic in it, which was half of the spoon she was using to cook it lol.

1point

Nikki Sevven 3 years ago

The worst part is that most of these could have been avoided if the ignorant person just read the instructions. Pasta containers have cooking instructions printed on them. Washing machines have instructions on a sticker under the lid. Read the instructions!

1point

Nia Loves Art 3 years ago

How are we supposed to know?There are a lot of things mu parents haven’t taught me. They say they will later but I’m 21 now and there are so many things I don’t know. If we admit we don’t know and ask for help people think we are stupid. Posts like this just confirm that people are laughing at me behind my back and make me not want to ask for help.

1point

Moosy Girl 3 years ago

If your parents aren’t teaching you, and you don’t want to ask other people: observe your parents (or other people) while they do things you want to learn, find a book about it, look it up on Google, read lists on BoredPanda about how NOT to do things, watch how people in movies do things or read instructions when available. And remember it’s better to feel stupid for a day and have some people laugh than to burn a house down.

3points

Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

Couldn't edit other, but: I learned most of this before junior high, so my normal is a bit skewed, I suspect, in the *other* direction. .... And as fair and kind as I want to be, I still think parents should be more effective in preparing their kids for adult life/independence, but that's not on *you*. Peace.

0points

Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

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0points

Rukkia 3 years ago

This thread is the exact reason I have taught my kids how to cook, clean and take care of basics. Money management is a little more difficult, but a work in progress.

1point

Mystery Egg 3 years ago

People who use the term 'adulting' should be given a slap.

1point

Iggy 3 years ago

Does nobody read instructions anymore?

1point

Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

I *want* to be fair and kind, but.... Who are the parents who've done this? I know I was basically raised in a boot camp on a farm, but .... even in "normal" homes, shouldn't kids know this by age 18?

1point

Craig Reynolds 2 years ago

I had a friend in my 20s that called me complaining after a power failure and wanting to know how he was supposed to cook (yes COOK) water if he can't use the microwave? He had a gas stove but no clue how it worked!!! I wonder if he still "COOKS" water?

0points

Suzanne Haigh 3 years ago

Most of these seen like idiots to me.

0points

Boop le nose 3 years ago

How do these people even survive. Darwin is probably rolling over in his grave, adjusting and reapplying his quote

0points

Viv Hart 3 years ago

Mu Dad did not earn much when we were kids, so from early days my sister & I had our chores at home, e.g. laying the table for meals, clearing it afterwards, washing & drying the dishes, etc. I think most of those above, were privileged, always someone else to do it. My Sis is a great cook & baker, I'm not bad myself. Also helped Dad with fixing things, both we girls can change plugs!. But I'm no good with a smartphone.

0points

Arenite 3 years ago

Humans are going to stupid themselves out of existence.

0points

John Baker 3 years ago

Am I the only one who's just not buying a lot of these?

0points

Candy Sheppard 3 years ago

I was like a lot of these people but it was because my mother didn't care enough about me to teach me. Fk her, I figured it out on my own!

0points

Lindy Mac 3 years ago

Here is a free tip for everyone who uses a credit card: Don't use it more than you can pay off at the end of the month. Interest will eat you alive. It only took me 35 years to learn that by paying off completely you are using their money for a few weeks, getting points and not having to pay interest or late fees. Seems simple...not easy to do always.

0points

Cheryl Brooks 3 years ago

I didnt know how to feel a banana until 3 weeks ago...im 12 and i still destroy the banana evertime i try to open one. For some reason i also suck at putting the bag back in our trash can. Everybody else can do it but everytime i try it takes me like 5 minutes and it falls down later. My parents gor tired of watching me struggle and just do it themselves....

0points

Simon Murray 3 years ago

In college I worked in an electrical store. When customers returned things we had to test them before issuing a refund. This older guy maybe 70yo came in with a kettle. I trotted off to put some water in it but when I looked inside it was caked in thick black stuff. The exchange that followed went: " Sir, what is this" "oh that, that's beans" "beans?" "Yes my wife is away and I was hungry, I'm not allowed to use the stove and well the kettle gets hot sooo.."

0points

Terry Reauxper 3 years ago

It is sad that this topic is right under a topic about "having each others' backs" and not pointing out the foibles of our fellow man, but the support we can give them instead.

0points

Agnes Jekyll 3 years ago

I've met more than one man who didn't know how to boil an egg, well into their 20s.

0points

Jods 3 years ago

I’m really dizzy from all the eye rolling I’ve been doing.

0points

Random Anon 3 years ago

I had a friend tried to change a tire with the car jacked up. Over the phone with a mutual friend, he insisted that it's impossible alone. We were baffled and intrigued. We nearly laughed ourselves to death when we realized what's going on.

0points

lenniee 3 years ago

I'm beginning to think that there's a direct correlation between why so many of these people are exes and their lack of skills...

0points

lenniee 3 years ago

Just a joke, but fr.

0points

Noemie Houtekie-N'Da 3 years ago

I've just... I've just... Died. I'm not the greatest cook, (still learning. ok baker tho.) but come on, you could just use common sense for these. Like some pasta is made of wheat, right? Well, wheat can burn in a lot of heat. Just reason like that and then you know it's just impossible to cook pasta without something else.

0points

mph seti 3 years ago

Adults saying the word "adulting" unironically is pretty bad, IMO.

0points

NaruTheCollective 3 years ago

If someone's parents or adult guardian didn't teach a child something, then I guess they didn't learn.

0points

Lorrie Rothstein 3 years ago

If Noone teaches you something then how can you be expected to do it. People need a life skills lesson. Life skills should be taught in school

0points

Mateo Ramos 3 years ago

Lol!

0points

Carolyn Herold 3 years ago

I have a friend, that is very highly intelligent when it comes to educational and her job. But when it comes to household things, it's hilarious. A group of us were at her house and talking about what he hate about laundry, and one our friends talked about the lent keeper, and she said she didn't know what that for and we had to show her and tell her that her house could have caught on fire.

0points

A.M. Pierre 3 years ago

My worst cooking fails were (1) when baking my first cake, I used my mom's powdered sugar container instead of flour and (2) I didn't know what a griddle was, so I tried making pancakes on a baking sheet set on the burners. HOWEVER, in both cases I was 11 or 12 and there also wasn't YouTube just yet, so I don't feel quite so bad.

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Javiera Gotelli 3 years ago

The amount of idiots who can't tell time, don't know plastic melts and metal doesn't go in the microwave is alarming. These are things we learned in elementary school.

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Nia Loves Art 3 years ago

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Mere Cat 3 years ago

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jknbt jknbt 3 years ago

I have known grown men in their 20s living on their own who still expect mom & dad to pay the car insurance bill and buy gas on their credit card. Grow up guys, please. Mom & Dad, stop empowering this, or you will have a 40 year old child living in your basement someday.

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Bill Evs 3 years ago

Can't stand the term "adulting". Putting clothes on to wash or cooking a meal is not an achievement.

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Sista of the moon 3 years ago

These are just things that you do more once you leave your parents lol.

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Jonathan 3 years ago

This raises my faith in Darwinism, but sadly Governments and Corporations aren't allowed to support that.

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Ekate 3 years ago

Most of these seem like the result of parenting fails.

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Ozacoter 3 years ago

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Alan Green 3 years ago

Yes and schools teaching useless things like how Oxbow lakes are formed instead of life skills that actually matter.

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SeidWolf 3 years ago

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

Agreed. I can't imagine letting even my *godkids* get to high school without knowing how to do most of this, and to know to read the box/manual/etc. if they don't.

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Amazon QT 3 years ago

I second that!!!! Or children that didn’t listen to their parents.

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Anna Repp 3 years ago

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Helen Haley 3 years ago

Most of this is a cases of 'you don't know what you don't know'. Some of it is neglect from when they were kids, some of it is over-privilege.

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Ryan Deschanel 3 years ago

That was... a lot of spoiled pasta.

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Ozacoter 3 years ago

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A Head 3 years ago

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Seabeast 3 years ago

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Martha Meyer 3 years ago

I was a latchkey kid and had no clue how to do any of these things, except cook a bit, until I went to uni.

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person (i think) 3 years ago

I love the idea that your kids each cook a dinner a week! My brother and i helped cook and stuff but were never put in charge of an entire meal and I think that is such a wonderful concept.

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Sam Yobado 3 years ago

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Sasy 3 years ago

That is cute.

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Chich 3 years ago (edited)

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JitkaBlitka 3 years ago (edited)

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Jods 3 years ago

My sister’s one of those who has never filled up with petrol before. Neither does know where the windscreen wash reservoir is. I doubt she even knows where the bonnet release lever is.

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Alan Green 3 years ago (edited)

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Tracy Sellars 3 years ago

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Daniel Marsh 3 years ago

I overheard a housemate tell another one to let the stove "heat up" for a while by turning the GAS on for a few minutes before lighting it. HE WAS A CHEF!

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denzoren 3 years ago

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Fluffy Griffin 3 years ago

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Rae Reyn 3 years ago

My grandmother firmly believed that if you didn't have something in an electrical socket, electricity would leak out. Every socket in her house had something plugged in.

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Izzy_ 3 years ago

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Fluffy Griffin 3 years ago

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Treessimontrees 3 years ago

People think doing everything for their kids is a form of love. It's not. They're raising life idiots.

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Ben Steinberg 3 years ago

I haven't taught my kids much, but I've taught them how to f**king cook pasta without burning it, that's for sure...

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Elsker 3 years ago

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Ula 3 years ago

I did that once, foam was all over the kitchen. I didnt know, never had a dishwasher.

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Daria Z 3 years ago

Most of them look like a plain lack of common sense. It can happen to anyone when they're tired.

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Adriana Coppage 3 years ago

to anyone who believes that all these people are from the USA, I want to clear up that not everyone in the US has an IQ of 20 and that there is a share of idiots in every country.

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Jo Choto 3 years ago

I feel so sorry for the kids who are sent out into the world by parents who have literally taught them nothing useful.

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Moosy Girl 3 years ago

I want to one day be as fearless as all these people who just try things without first reading the instructions 5 times or more.

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A Random Panda 3 years ago

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Michelle Muirhead 3 years ago

I believe in Darwinism!

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AlanandLeila Hoyt 3 years ago

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Seabeast 3 years ago (edited)

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Lisa T 3 years ago

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Nikki Sevven 3 years ago

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Nia Loves Art 3 years ago

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Moosy Girl 3 years ago

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

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Rukkia 3 years ago

This thread is the exact reason I have taught my kids how to cook, clean and take care of basics. Money management is a little more difficult, but a work in progress.

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Mystery Egg 3 years ago

People who use the term 'adulting' should be given a slap.

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Iggy 3 years ago

Does nobody read instructions anymore?

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

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Craig Reynolds 2 years ago

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Suzanne Haigh 3 years ago

Most of these seen like idiots to me.

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Boop le nose 3 years ago

How do these people even survive. Darwin is probably rolling over in his grave, adjusting and reapplying his quote

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Viv Hart 3 years ago

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Arenite 3 years ago

Humans are going to stupid themselves out of existence.

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John Baker 3 years ago

Am I the only one who's just not buying a lot of these?

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Candy Sheppard 3 years ago

I was like a lot of these people but it was because my mother didn't care enough about me to teach me. Fk her, I figured it out on my own!

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Lindy Mac 3 years ago

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Cheryl Brooks 3 years ago

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Simon Murray 3 years ago

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Terry Reauxper 3 years ago

It is sad that this topic is right under a topic about "having each others' backs" and not pointing out the foibles of our fellow man, but the support we can give them instead.

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Agnes Jekyll 3 years ago

I've met more than one man who didn't know how to boil an egg, well into their 20s.

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Jods 3 years ago

I’m really dizzy from all the eye rolling I’ve been doing.

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Random Anon 3 years ago

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lenniee 3 years ago

I'm beginning to think that there's a direct correlation between why so many of these people are exes and their lack of skills...

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lenniee 3 years ago

Just a joke, but fr.

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Noemie Houtekie-N'Da 3 years ago

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mph seti 3 years ago

Adults saying the word "adulting" unironically is pretty bad, IMO.

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NaruTheCollective 3 years ago

If someone's parents or adult guardian didn't teach a child something, then I guess they didn't learn.

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Lorrie Rothstein 3 years ago

If Noone teaches you something then how can you be expected to do it. People need a life skills lesson. Life skills should be taught in school

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Mateo Ramos 3 years ago

Lol!

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Carolyn Herold 3 years ago

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A.M. Pierre 3 years ago

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Javiera Gotelli 3 years ago

The amount of idiots who can't tell time, don't know plastic melts and metal doesn't go in the microwave is alarming. These are things we learned in elementary school.

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Nia Loves Art 3 years ago

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Mere Cat 3 years ago

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jknbt jknbt 3 years ago

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Bill Evs 3 years ago

Can't stand the term "adulting". Putting clothes on to wash or cooking a meal is not an achievement.

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Sista of the moon 3 years ago

These are just things that you do more once you leave your parents lol.

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