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!

@VonWeasel

Asked if you can see the Eiffel Tower from London

I was once asked if Paris was in London. Maybe it was the same person.

Yeah, I've had the ones about, 'are they yours?' I look significantly different to DC. It is exasperating.

The worst one was from my DM who has form.
Me: "DD loves Something Special, I quite loke learning the signs too."
DM: "Is it a programme for blind children?"
I have since given up on her.

I fear I am always asking stupid questions in shops. If I'd had a good look and couldn't find something or was in a place like boots and wasn't sure what product to get I would ask. I don't bother now after being looked at like I have two heads. I wasn't asking for baked beans or anything! When I worked in a supermarket and were asked we were supposed to either call a deparment member or take them to the right area and search for what they wanted.

I was riding my horse along a road when I passed an old school friend that I hadn't seen in years.
Stopped to say hello, and he asked if I still went horse riding
He was one of the top boffs at school and is head of IT in a prestigious private school

Once a scary no nonsense manager burst into the office I work in having just moved into the building I work in, and picked up our kettle.

Scary lady: ‘You- where do I put water in?’
Me: ‘...’ (I tremble and look confused)
Scary lady: ‘Hurry up I need tea before my meeting’

I slowly approached her and gently opened the kettle’s lid.

Scary lady (witheringly) ‘Where.Is.The.Kitchen’

My mum asked her mother as a child whether the world was in black and white when GM was young.

My friends bf introduced me to his brother. I asked him 'so how long have you known friends bf?'

@aurynne

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

I am a geneticist.

i just had to google that, (not mystery) but to see what it actually means.

Google says its 'messenger'

Not a question I've asked, but a bizarre answer to a request:

I was in a shop buying Christmas cards and needed some stamps too.

Me to shop assistant: Can I have 12 first class stamps please?
Shop Assistant: Of course... oh... I'm ever so sorry but we only sell them in books of 6.
Me: Well, that's OK, I'll just take 2 of those then.
SA: Huh???
Me: I'll have two books of 6 stamps then please
SA: huh???
Me: 6 + 6 = 12?? Now me looking confused...
SA: Oh... OK then (still not looking convinced and looking at me like I was weird!

Wouldn't mind so much but I had exactly the same conversation in the same shop the following year with a different shop assistant!

I said to someone 'Dave has grown a moustache'. There response: 'where?'
I was breastfeeding DD in a cafe and a lady came up to me and said 'is she yours or are you a childminder?'

Their not there bloody autocorrect

My dmum was booking a family holiday and had emailed me asking me for my passport number and my date of birth...

Not a question I've asked, but a bizarre answer to a request
Staying in a hotel, I went to the restaurant and ordered a coffee. When it arrived I asked if if was ok for me to take it to my room. The waitress took the cup off me, poured the coffee into a glass and handed it back. I left clutching my hot glass of coffee and covered in confusion.

In the corridor at work. I work in a hospital.
Stopped by a young man…

“Can you tell me where my grandad is?”

Me “what is his name and what did he come in with?” (Thinking I could send him in the direction of the appropriate ailment ward)

Young man…”he’s called grandad and I’ve no idea what he came in with”….he was ACTUALLY ROLLING HIS EYES AT ME..like I’m the stupid one!!!

Oh and another one... a really lovely girl that I used to work with wasn't the sharpest

"Penguins are fish, right?"

"What part of a dolphin does tuna come from?"

People have asked if my twin and I are identical. While we were both standing there. I'm obviously a woman and he's obviously a man.

@FlyingFlamingo

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

I used to work in a supermarket and a customer complained about me because I didn't offer to help them bag up.

They had a newspaper.

@DoubleEx

Not exactly a question but years ago I was in a minicab going back home and the driver took me to the wrong place. The street name was right but it was Streetname Avenue right in the middle of the city, instead of my address which was Streetname Road, in zone 3.

Ended up having a long argument about who was in the wrong. He was trying to convince me I’d told him to go to Streetname Avenue and I was like, why the fuck would I tell you that? I know my own address!

Anyway, he dropped me home for free so it was all good.

I've had almost exactly this, in a different city. The cab driver insisted my road (new build, admittedly) didn't exist, despite me insisting that I should know, I lived there. Tried to prove it by showing me he couldn't find it on his ancient GPS, which was in an ice-cream tub under his seat and which he had to blow the dust off and get the manual out for. Took me to the wrong road.

DH has a twin sister, he often gets asked if they're identical...

One of my children asked me if "when I was a little girl, in the olden days, was everything in black and white"?

I was asked at work during a power cut if the loo would still flush!

I get asked all the time of my twins are identical. One is ginger and tiny, the other is dark and enormous

I was asked if my kids had the same dad purely because they have different hair colour.

10 year age gap…same dad?

@Ledkr

When telling my midwife that I didn't need to speak to a breast feeding expert as I have had a double mastectomy she replied "well shall I refr you anyway, just in case?" Dh piped up "in case they grow back?"

Omg 🤦‍♀️

I get stupid questions all the time working in a supermarket/petrol station. "is this where you pay for fuel?" I always want to say no there's a special till at the back and send them off looking for the imaginary till.
Best one "do you sell bread?"

Ermm no we're a supermarket that doesn't sell bread

@backtolifebacktoreality

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!!!!

😂😂😂😂