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!

@PumpkinKlNG

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?” 🤦‍♀️

Bless him 🥰 If only he was right about dying being a temporary unpleasantness ☹️

Quite a few. One that springs to mind was an occasion when I was working late in the office on a Friday night. A colleague from another department (who kept different hours) came past, stopped at my desk and said, "Are you still here?"
I know what they meant but it WAS a stupid question.

At work I was asked if I knew how to make the printer print white. They wanted to print white letters onto black paper. I tried to explain that the white you normally see is the paper, with no printing, but they weren’t having it. I did suggest they combine artistic flair and tippex...

All the people who’ve been asked if their kids/twins have the same dads- recently people keep commenting on the great family resemblance between our 3 kids, which is super kind but the eldest two are step-siblings so we never really know what to say... we both get on well with our respective exes and they must be seeing these odd Facebook photo comments saying ‘they’ve all got your eyes’ etc- they obviously haven’t!!

"My nan died yesterday"

"I'm so sorry to hear that, is she okay?"

In hospital after having DS, wheeled up to radiology for an X-ray to check for damage after c-section went dramatic - “any chance you could be pregnant?”

I know it would have been an automatic question, part of the pre-zap checks, but I just at the poor radiologist - milk leaking through my t-shirt, unable to stand up straight, horrible stitches - eventually managing “definitely not!”.

Me on meeting a guy for the first time arranged via OLD. His profile said he was 6ft 6 (I always take that with a pinch of salt because they normally end up as 5ft 6 irl and I'm 6ft so its quite obvious!) Instead of saying hello I said "wow you really are tall!" to which he replied "well I can't help that". Not my finest moment!

When my brother an

d his partner were expecting their first they didn't want to find out the biological sex until the baby was born.

One of my friends asked me if I was excited to become an aunt or uncle. I at her. No idea how she got into her law degree!!

In a discussion on climate change somebody seriously argued that if we go to net zero all the plants would die from no CO2 in the atmosphere.

I'm generally switched on but last year I asked my partner what type of animal the pink panther was. I'd also got my son (who has a tree nut allergy) some coffee. He said he could get the walnut taste coming through and I said "shit, I didn't check the allergens". I'm normally not too daft, I blamed lockdown delirium.

Oh wow OP, that is ridiculous. We’re an interracial family and get the most stupid comments too.

My favourite stupid comment though was when I was travelling alone, in New York, a man stopped me to say hello and asked me where I’m from, ‘England’ I said, he then asked me ‘what language do they speak in England?’

My ex talking to a neighbour at a local party.

Neighbour: where are you from?
Ex: Holland
Neighbour: do you speak hollanish?
Ex: we speak Dutch
Neighbour: as well as hollandish?

Talking about kids and mentioned to my nurse colleague that my friend had just had twins, boy and girl.

Nurse: "oh lovely, are they identical"..... I presume she was tired after a long old day lol

@ohohovex - a panther is just any type of big cat with a genetic abnormality so they are black rather than yellow/stripy/spotted. So a pink panther would be any type of big cat with a different abnormality that makes them appear pink. They could still be a Jaguar/cheetah/etc. So that’s actually not a stupid question at all!

Our city museum used to have a mocked up Victorian street. I asked my mum who would have been mid thirties in 1980 when we went..."these cobbles must have hurt your feet when you didn't have shoes when you were young"

My grandfather was once stopped by a stranger and asked 'are you a prince?' (And he wasn't even wearing his crown.)

Bunch of us (all Brits) once got asked by a waitress in a restaurant in the US if we were French

@Lulu1919

To me saying I'm going in holiday

They say ..oh anywhere nice ?

I always want to say No I've booked a horrible holiday ....

That used to be the hairdresser's staple question when I was younger. Why would you not go somewhere "nice" on holiday?

I remember one haircut when having chipped a load off, the hairdresser asked me quite seriously, "Is that okay or do you want it longer?"

On holiday in New York, in a bar. Fellow patron hears my English accent and asks me if I know Prince William.

Yes, we are BFFs

Well, thank you @Fredoftheforest!! Maybe I've heard that fact before, forgotten it but it lingered in my subconscious!

I adopted twins.
I've been asked if I adopted both of them (tempted to say they were triplets but we only wanted two)

@TurnTowardsTheSun 'how is he in himself' means 'how is he feeling mentally/emotionally aka is his mood ok'

Are you this child’s mother?

Followed by well you don’t match - it’s called mixed marriage.

“Is Hitler still alive ?”

A 15 year old girl once asked me circa 2013.