What's the most ridiculous question you've been asked?

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NC for this.

Have you been asked a stupid question that has an obvious answer?

My husband and I are a white couple and have three black foster children (who we adore).

They have lived with us for many years and call us mum and dad.

When we were on holiday, there was a couple in the hotel who would always say hello when we saw them around.

On their last night the wife said "I've been wanting to ask you ... do the children realise you are not their real mum and dad"?

Rather than get upset, the kids and I just laughed about them afterwards!

My colleague (staring into a box of chocolates) "what do mini twix taste like?"
My boss "like twix. But smaller" while doing a WTF face at her

Doctor to me "so it's autoimmune? Ok, what caused that, why do you have it?"
Me
I mean I think if I had the answer to that I would be a VERY popular person....

‘What time is the news at ten on?’

@Lbnc2021

Whilst yes, that was a ridiculous question under your circumstances a girl I once worked with was a twin and had a different biological father to her twin sister.

They were raised by Foster parents, always looked quite different to each other and did a 23and me.
Turns out they were half sisters.

Practically every day at work

"Ok so we can do Monday the 1st"
Customer "Monday the 1st? What day is that?"
Me "Monday.....?"

"Are you going to Christen your baby Jewish then?"
Errrrr
(dh is Jewish I'm an ex Methodist now Atheist)

A black friend gave birth to her children in Africa. She now lives here. A woman in a sleepy village in the back of beyond in the UK asked her whether her kids would have still been born black if she'd given birth to them in the UK!!!!

We were on holiday with my in-laws. For lunch we ordered soup. When it came my Mil asked me in a hushed voice ' do you eat this with a spoon or a fork'?. I said its soup why would you eat it with a fork. She replied, well I don't know I've never been to this country before.

From an anti-vaxxer giving away pamphlets: "Did you know that the 'm' in 'mRNA' stands for 'mystery'?"

I am a geneticist.

Whilst 8 months pregnant a guy at work said “have you had the baby yet?”
Yeah totally, that’s why I’m waddling around like a whale and still in the office rather than on maternity leave (I was huge!)

I told my son a story about something that happened to me when I was a child and he looked at me and with a completely serious face said “oh no did you die?” 🤦‍♀️

Twin prams are magnets for stupid questions.

“What made you decide to have twins?” - Just a whim… What WAS I thinking???

“They’re twins? Are they both yours?” - Bloody hope so.

“How did you manage to have them so close together?” - I’m an Efficiency Expert.

“I.V.F.???” - “No… S.E.X.”. (Cue pearl-clutching and comments about being blunt.)

He said ‘why not?’
I said because it’s not like the Mickey Mouse clubhouse where I call Toodles to fix it, it’s now black and white

@Turntowardstgesun "How is he in himself?" is usually asked in the context of someone who has, say, two broken legs, so may be in pain and in hospital, but aside from that could be feeling OK and reasonably cheerful "in themself" once pain relief is managed.

But someone with meningitis and septicaemia is never going to be feeling anything other than completely dreadful.

I am guilty of a twins one.

There was a lady whom I used to see on the school run. She had two babies in a buggy, one looked about 3 month size, one about 5 month size.

I thought; they are either twins and one's a lot bigger than the other, or only one is hers and she is minding the other one for someone else.

So I asked,: "Are they twins?"

"Yes," she said.

Still on above train of thought I said "Are they both yours?"

Cringe!

I think they are about 13 now and I still want to hide in the hedge whenever I see her.

I was asked if my (then baby) DD would learn to speak English or German as she grew up. She was born in Germany to English parents... who spoke English in the home. The person thought that being born in Germany made her more predisposed to German than English. (Rather than language being something you learnt if that made sense).

I also get questions about her nationality... it is 100% British with no entitlement to German or EU citizenship (unfortunately).

"I haven't got a size 12, do you want two 6's?"
Asked seriously of me in H and M a few years ago.

I'd have just looked at them blankly 'whatever do you mean?'

I think the stupidest question was a boy asking why I couldn't just hold in my period like pee. Feckin idiot

Twin pram one. A woman exclaimed ‘oh are they twins?’ ‘Er....no’ I replied in confusion. One was a sleeping newborn and the other was a babbling almost 2 yr old.

I had a delivery driver argue with me for five minutes about a pizza we hadn't ordered - didn't seem to be able to accept that we hadn't ordered it. It was during lockdown when no one was taking cash, so presumably it had already been paid for. There's a nearby street with a similar name to ours, so I can understand the initial mistake, but we should know whether we'd ordered a pizza or not.

Dd1 at the park, pointing at some birds in the lake:
‘What’s that?’
‘A moor hen’

‘What’s a moor hen?’
‘THAT THING YOU JUST POINTED TO. That’s a moor hen!’

When someone asks a stupid question the answer in our house is now always ‘it’s a moor hen’

Student teacher - are you in my year 7 math class
Me - No, I'm in year 11
ST- Don't lie, I saw you in my class
Me (Prefect, head of anti bullying ect, year 11 uniform) No, definitely year 11.
ST- Shouldn't you be in my math class now anyway.
Me- shouldn't you? Now I really need to go as I late for my GCSE chemistry class. (And walked off)
I know I'm short but come on.
Ended up getting a high five from my tutor when he got wind of what happened. He didn't like teachers who don't listen.

@OooPourUsACupLove

I told my friend I was cycling to work and it was 5 miles. Her: "Wow - you cycle both ways?" Me: "No...I'm building up a huge pile of bikes in the carpark"

That's not that stupid a question actually I know two people who cycle one way to work and get the train home.

My most stupid question lately was I was when I was having lunch out with my four year old and when it came time to pay the waitress asked me if I we were paying together or separately. Not sure there are any four year olds who pay for their own meals it maybe she knew something I didn't🤷🏻‍♀️

@TurnTowardsTheSun

When I said my 4 month old baby was enjoying swimming lessons I was asked whether I need to go into the pool with her or she does it on her own.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I was also once asked in Tesco if I needed a hand to pack my shopping. I looked between my solitary, bagged croissant and the check out assistant and saw the penny drop