What's the silliest question you've ever been asked?

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DH :- "I'm going to wash my car. Do you want me to do yours as well?"

His previous best was when I gave him something I'd found in Poundland :- "How much was it?"

“Miss, how do you spell RSPCA?”

Do you speak Italian? (After a five minute conversation in Italian with no comprehension problems).

"Do you have pasta in Denmark?"
"Do you have ketchup in Denmark?"
"Do you have motorways in Denmark?"

I'm not even Danish.

Supermarket during lockdown, person on the door asked me, whilst very very clearly standing with just my 7yo son, "Are you two going in together?". No no, I'm planning on trying him up outside.

What animal is a Cumberland?

Was asking them what sausages they wanted!

On holiday looking around a cathedral and admiring a mosaic of the Virgin Mary:

Me: "Contrary to what a lot of people think, Mary didn't remain a virgin all her life because it says in the bible that Jesus had some brothers."

Husband: "Really? I didn't know that! Were they older or younger? "

@WOBNIARM It's not that uncommon for cats to be walked. You can buy harnesses for cats.

When living in England, Do you have trains in Ireland?

“OMG she’s from Orkney? Do they actually have electricity up there?”

After the initial HAHAHAHA, I realised my line manger was serious :/

We went into the estate agents whom we'd just that day completed our house purchase to collect the keys as they held them because the previous owner was deceased. Explained why we were there and the guy asked me ”would you like me to arrange a viewing of the property?”

During science week at school I was bulk buying the following ingredients for activities:

Bags of flour (a long time before the shortages)
Several bags of carrots.
48 eggs
3 large bags of onions.

The cashier looked into my trolley and asked "are you having a party?"

I'd love to know what sort of parties he went to!!

In Florida on a group holiday. I’d got separated from the rest of my family by a large group of American teens. I was chatting to my god daughter and this large group just got quieter and quieter listening to us... then one of them leaned over and said
“Hey, what language y’all speaking?”
“Er... English?”
“But Where you from?”
“England”

There were lots of comments about how amazing it was that they could understand someone from another country speaking a whole other language.

I used to work in a developing country and lived in a tiny village way out in the sticks. I commented to a friend back home by e-mail that they were burning off the refuse and as a result I was struggling with my asthma.

She replied and asked why on earth they were burning rubbish when they could just wait for council bin collection day.

When I had dd my df asked how come her eyes were open?

He said he didn't think they opened until a few weeks.
No dh that's kittens...

*df.

In my early twenties I worked at a famous mountain resort in the Canadian rockies in a wee touristy convenience store. More than once I had an American tourist ask "when do they drain the lake to paint the bottom blue?"
We also sold videotapes of the area in two formats. PAL, for overseas use and NTSC, for North America. One American lady asked "I'm from Florida, I should get the overseas version right?"
Me (in my head) "did you cross any major bodies of water to get here???"
Don't get me started on Americans holding up a quarter or a dime when coming to pay and asking "how much is this one worth?" Canadian and American coins are EXACTLY the same size and denominations, just different pictures.

I have 2 boys.
Someone on Instagram once messaged me to ask what I did to have boys.

I should say that there was a very specific demographic of tourist who visited us and I know that many Americans are not that dense.

Before we went to hot desking in work I used to have a framed photo of me and the much beloved on my desk. Arms round each other on holiday type photo, one of my colleagues pointed at it and asked "oh is that Mr Rolla?" (Me in my head.. that no, it's the bloke running the beach bar I can't even remember his name)

Also I know it's just force of habit following a list of questions but I've lost count of the number of times I've had the following conversation with a medical professional

Them "Are you on any medication ?"
Me "Just the pill"
Them "Any chance you could be pregnant ?"
Me ".......hope not"

Also, I do landscape photography as a hobby. Once I was standing with my camera all set up on its tripod, all the gear out etc with it pointed at a local beauty spot a few minutes before sunset, a PCSO came up and behind me and said "What are you doing love ?"

I couldn't resist responding 'I'm baking a cake...what does it look like I'm doing ?'

DH is an optician and has hundreds of these. My favourite is when he asked a patient to read the letter chart and they said "what, with my eyes?!"

I worked at a tourist attraction in Paris and Two American women asked me where the mimes were... As though there were just mimes everywhere

"Mummy what would happen if everybody in the whole world farted at the same time?" (DD then around 5)

"Mummy, how do you get the skin off a dinosaur?" Also DD just after a visit to the Natural History Museum.

I'd quite like an answer to the farting question.