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!

Former boss, pre internet. She was on a visit to Belfast, I was in Manchester. She was after directions to a certain place.

'I'm facing a red brick wall. Where do I go now?'

No idea love, we're not playing Knightmare'.

I have a friend who is both Deaf and from Jordan. My parents were visiting and I suggested my mum have a look at my friend's watch as it had Arabic numerals (the modern Arabic numbers).

My mum, "Is it Braille?"

Another time arriving for work, head to toe in leather with a crash helmet in my hand a senior doctor asked me if I'd arrived on a motorbike.

One of the radiographers responded with, "No she swam".

Dd-what are chicken nuggets made out of?
Me-beef
Did-REALLY?I didn’t know that!

Ds-do I have two livers?
Where’s my arm? (Looked amazed when I pointed to it)
Mum,who are gods parents?
Can goldfish breathe on land?

My dad-for context I’m his only daughter
Me-(on the phone to him) dad!it’s your favourite daughter!
Dad-which one?
Well unless you’ve got kids nobody else knows about,it’s me!

I was once asked, when travelling in America with my then 2yo DS, how I taught him to speak with an English accent so young.

My best friend came to see me just after my DS was born. I was changing him after a bath, his cord was still attached. She commented that it looked painful. She then asked me how mine is doing and if it was healing well 😂 I love her to bits and she’s actually very smart, this was just a very brief moment of stupidity.

many years ago my late husband was in the merchant navy. It was a perk of the job for officer's wives to travel with their husbands and an excellent tax break so I did it full time for many years. This was a little unusual as of course most of the other folk who could have done this had kids so the wives couldn't travel often. As you do, I got to know many of the other crew members. I joined one ship and met a friend who said to me "hello godmum56, is your husband here too?"

How do I speak English so well...even though I was born here and was privately educated.

"Why have you written my child's name on a sticker on her water bottle?" asks a parent at a holiday club

Because I have 26 5 year olds to look after, and her bottle didn't have her name on it, and I need to know which water bottle belongs to which child.

DH to me "Would you like to go out to dinner?"

DH to me "Shall I cook tonight?"

@TurnTowardsTheSun round here at least, it's an old fashioned kind of way of asking how their mental health is!

The American tourist who pointed north from Edinburgh over the Firth and Forth and asked "is that Calais?"

A friend got into a pre booked taxi after a night out and was chatting to the driver, the conversation lulled and she said 'so what do you do for a living then mate?' 😂

My cousin phoned me - on my landline - and said 'oh thank god, where are you?'

Two recent ones:

My daughter had ridden her new fold up bike into work, folded it down and put it behind the door of the staff office. Another member of staff saw it there and asked is that a fold up bike?

Partner and I are house hunting, using money from an inheritance as his mother sadly passed away. Estate agent asked how we were financing house purchase, explained about his mother passing away, she said oh that's good. I could see she meant it was good we had money in the bank, but still!

My mother to me
When’s your birthday?
Me-er,you where there!
My dad piped up-well it’s 5 days before hitlers if that’s any use!

I’m still not sure if she was taking the piss…

I asked my sister if she liked the new sandals I was wearing - she looked down and after a pause said, ‘They’re not your feet, are they?’ 🤷‍♀️

Some of these have made me laugh

I'm sure often though our brain connectors/words just get muddled. I was programming my washing machine to start the next day and mentally also running through my to do list as well as rushing. Asked my son the time and he said 11.50. I asked what time it would be 12 hours from now. I just got an arched eyebrow from him! In my head was thinking 18,19 hours from now but I'd stopped pressing the timer button at 12 so that's what popped out of my mouth. I realise I could have calculated the 19 hours myself but quicker to ask a younger brain when in a rush

@CrumpetsForAll

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!!

Haha this reminds me of the time a woman came to my door (she was delivering parcels for A courier company) and when I opened the door she exclaimed "oh my! You're the spitting image of your dad!!!". At first I was like whoTH are you? Then it transpired she was one of my dads clients from work. (I wasn't married at the time so my maiden name was quite uncommon). Anyway I just laughed, but I'm adopted lol and look nothing like my parents. I actually look more like one of my dads cousins then my actual biological mother. It is funny though lol!

Contracting every few minutes- I was asked in the maternity ward my reason for visiting today

When I worked at WHSmith, customer on the phone. "I'm on your website and I can see you sell record cards but how big are they compared to my hand?" Had to try to politely explain that I didn't know how big his hands were but the website stated the cards were 5x3 or 6x4 inches so maybe he could find a ruler and measure for himself.

Not so much a question but when people state they are a vegetarian but then follow it up with, ‘...... but I eat fish!’

Having just given birth to a 9lb baby, I was not at my best ...

As the baby finally came out, the nurse announced '18:50' so her colleague could note the time of birth.

I whimpered 'Is that in pounds?' They thought I was making a joke and laughed but I was serious.

Who's coats that jacket?

Office job many years ago I was photocopying log sheets from our drivers to send to head office.

Another manager walks up and says 'You not allowed to photocopy those.' (You couldn't send photocopies to head office they wouldn't accept them).

Tried explaining I was photocopying them for my records not to send to head office and he kept insisting I shouldn't be photocopying them. I'm not sure if he thought the would self combust or magically wipe all the data off I just couldn't get it through to him they were for my records.

I'm from NZ . A lovely American man once asked me if hobbits delivered our mail.