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?"

Do you work here?
To be fair to them, the t-shirt I was wearing had the shop name in big letters on the front and back and I was taking items from cardboard boxes on a trolley and arranging them on the shelf. None of that could possibly be an indicator of whether I worked there or not.

Is he yours?
First time I went to a toddler group with my toddler. I was too shy to say 'No, but I heard you needed one to get in so I grabbed him off the street."

Did you bleach his hair?
About ds2 who was just over a year old. It was summer and his perfectly natural dark blonde hair had lightened in the sun.

The best ever: -
Do you have googly eyes?
Not now I take the medication every day. However if you'd like to purchase some they're over here.

I worked in Poundland many moons ago when I was 17.

"Do you get paid £1 an hour?" Cue the hysterical laughing from the 50th person to say it on each shift, as if no one had ever thought of that joke before.

From a professional who inspects dog boarding facilities - How does he see? - about my dog that doesn't have eyes 😂

I'm an older mother and was out shopping with my DC who was about 4 at the time
Shop worker to DC: "Hello, have you come shopping with your nanna?"
DC, "No"
Shop worker, to me, "Hello nanna."
Me:"I'm the mother actually."
Shop worker,"Are you sure?"
Me,"Er...yes"
SW, "Really? It's just that you get a lot of younger Nana's now..."
Me," Would you like me to show you the scar from the cesarean?"

I'm colourblind. Without fail when people find out they point at something and ask "what colours that?"

I've osteoarthritis - "are you sure? You've very young maybe you just need a job" followed by when I say that's what the x-Ray's say and why my joints need replacing by "oh well at least you're young, it cant hurt as much"

I went to M&S after work, wearing my coat and carrying my handbag. A lady came over to me and asked where something was. I said I didn't know and she could ask the assistant. She replied "well you should know, and I'm asking you" so I told her I didn't work there and walked out of the shop, while she was shouting after me she was going to complain to my manager. Wouldn't want to lose my fictitious job!

A friend's sister was on a flight breast feeding her baby, somone asked, "Is that your baby?" Baby was much fairer than mum whose ancestors are Sri Lanken

"No, I'm a wet-nurse".

A couple of years ago my daughter asked "is Terry Wogan still dead?"

Not me but a friend who is the parent of twins, one boy one girl was repeatedly asked if they were identical

Another American tourist one... after telling the lovely man making small talk in the lift that I was from Scotland, he asked if that made me Irish

DH asked “where are the plasters?”
Me “on top of the wardrobe in the spare room.”
DH looking puzzled “ I didn’t expect you to say that. I expected you to say in the first aid box.”

Why ask?

I went to school with someone that was repeatedly asked by everyone (kids and parents) if she was adopted because she was white and her parents black. She wasn't. Her parents had escaped from Africa with her as a baby due to life-threatening prejudice and found a village to move to who spent the entire time gossiping and insisting that she must be adopted.

That was decades ago, now of course we know differently re genetics. I remember her asking her mum if she was adopted or even stolen.

Devastating for everyone.

As a women with a twin brother, I have also been asked if we are identical. It seems from this thread like a lot of people struggle with the concept of twins!

*woman

Two spring to mind. Years ago,I asked my then SIL if she could give me the phone number of the hairdresser that she went to. She said 'Why do you want that?'. Oh I thought I'd give them a call and wish them happy Christmas.
The other one was only a few months ago. A woman that I'm vaguely acquainted with asked me if I was planning on having any more children. I'm 56,and I have a daughter who's nearly 37. Maybe she thought I was a good 15 years younger!

Another one from working in a hospital, "What's the number fr the room next to you?"

I have no idea

You are very unhelpful

That reminds me of another one! I work in university admissions and a man called up to discuss our entry requirements for his daughter. I twigged that he thought we were another local uni, so I told him he’d called X university but he wanted Y university.

‘Oh, could you put me through to them, then?’

Absolutely, sir. I am, in fact, the switchboard for all the central Scottish universities

In a department store I asked one of the shop assistants where I would find bras, she said
“men’s or women’s?”
I said men’s just to see her response - she said she didn’t know where they were kept 😂
I had to find the bra section myself

When we're out and about ppl always ask my DP how he got his beard

As a teenager, my best friend had a holiday job working in a tea shop out of town (only about three miles from home, but would have taken hours on buses) and her Dad dropped her off in the mornings and picked her up in the evenings. (I later got a job with her and I had a car, so that made it easier for us both - and her Dad, of course).

Her snooty boss asked "Why does your Father always bring and collect you in the same car, every day?" She never let an opportunity slip to display her vulgarity and boast non-subtly about the fact that she was 'considerably richer than yoooow'; but assuming that her Dad wasn't a car thief (which he wasn't) and that he was also loaded and owned lots of vehicles, surely he would have still chosen the same 'most suited' vehicle from his vast fleet for the exact same task every day, wouldn't he?!

When I was in sixth form, I was in the bath and a friend called my mobile and I answered. When he asked where I was and I told him he asked me incredulously ‘does that mean you’re naked?’ I answered ‘no I’ve got all my clothes on.’

ButterflyBitch

Rumbled: your name is Lucy, your friend's name is Lee and I claim my £5

A few years ago, a 17 year old teenager asked me what year I was born,, so I said 1942, and he said, oh did you meet Hitler then, when you were fighting in the Army.

WeBuiltThisBuffet no! There must be at least two silly men out there!

When my daughter was 14 (& slender but with a feminine face and shape) she got herself a buzz cut. She looked like Audrey Hepburn if Audrey had had her hair cut to 1/4 inch. For years after it grew out people would ask where my “other son” had gone and when I said I just had the little boy and an older girl they would squint suspiciously at me and say “are you sure? I’m sure you had two boys.”