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

269 replies

whatastupidquestion · 02/09/2021 23:05

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!

OP posts:
pickingdaisies · 03/09/2021 15:37

My science teacher brother to me, looking at the chipped nail polish on my toenails,
How often do you wash your feet?

HollowTalk · 03/09/2021 15:45

"Do you want a paracetemol?" - asked by a nurse after I'd had a high-forceps birth after pushing for three hours with just gas and air. "No, give me morphine" was my answer, but I still just got the paracetemol.

ifoundthebread · 03/09/2021 15:45

I work in a supermarket and was recently asked by a customer if we had any Easter eggs?

Now that is a stupid question 😂

bumblingbovine49 · 03/09/2021 15:47

DH and I (both white) went camping years ago. We took DS and his best friend as well as his best friend's two siblings as their mum had planned to come but at the last minute was quite ill so we took the children . They are of Pakistani origin.

We also had another adult friend with us ( white ) and her son who is mixed heritage with a black South African father . So three white middle aged adults (2 X women ,.1xmale) , 3 children of Asian origin , one white child and one mixed race . I know.that might be a puzzling mix but to come up with three social workers on a community trip of some sort seems a stretch to me, not to mention the bloody nosiness of the question.

EmmaGrundyForPM · 03/09/2021 15:49

@Justilou1

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.)

I have a friend who has identical twin daughters. When they were tiny she had a lot of people peer into the pram and ask "are they twins?". To which she would reply "No, actually, they're triplets but we leave the ugly one at home".Grin
Thunderface · 03/09/2021 15:54

At a party a woman offered my toddler dd a cake and I said ' no, she is allergic to eggs'. So she asked me should she offer her a meringue instead Confused

ByTheSeaShells · 03/09/2021 15:55

a vistor at mums b&b asked asked "where does the tide go when it goes out?"

readingismycardio · 03/09/2021 16:19

I actually have one of mine...

I ask DH what day Easter is last year.
He replies: x April
Me: ok, I know day, but what DAY
DH: erm... a Sunday? Like always....

🤣🤣🤣🤣

readingismycardio · 03/09/2021 16:21

@readingismycardio

I actually have one of mine...

I ask DH what day Easter is last year.
He replies: x April
Me: ok, I know day, but what DAY
DH: erm... a Sunday? Like always....

🤣🤣🤣🤣

I know that* sorry, way too tired
strugglingwithlife · 03/09/2021 16:31

@ohohovex

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"
York Castle Museum?
WhatsErFace2020 · 03/09/2021 17:16

DD at 15 years old “I know there are 24 hours in a day..,but how many hours are there in a night?”

ShadyAF · 03/09/2021 17:37

Oooooh I have one!

In Edinburgh and a tourist asked me what time to 1o'clock gun was.

Ummmmmmmmm Hmm

Pollaidh · 03/09/2021 17:40

I've had the same Shady many many times.

LittleMissnotLittleMrs · 03/09/2021 17:45

@user1497787065

I was asked at work during a power cut if the loo would still flush!
One of mine doesn't though - it’s a saniflow so needs electricity to operate the macerator. It’s why I have a second loo at the back of the house
itsgettingwierd · 03/09/2021 17:48

Did they ask in front of the children? Shock

If so that's far more than just a stupid question.

But on the holiday theme when working in Tenerife in Los Gigantes I got asked when the volcanic cliffs had been out there because they apparently weren't there when they came the year before.

I assured them they'd been there a very long time Grin

itsgettingwierd · 03/09/2021 17:53

@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" Confused
🤣🤣🤣🤣

This one really made me laugh

sueelleker · 03/09/2021 17:57

@Thunderface

At a party a woman offered my toddler dd a cake and I said ' no, she is allergic to eggs'. So she asked me should she offer her a meringue instead Confused
There might be some vague logic to that though-she could just be allergic to egg yolk.
GrandTheftWalrus · 03/09/2021 18:08

I was at work in princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh but I was standing outside the gate on actual princes Street and a woman asked me where princes Street was! Now I know tourists may not know but there was a sign right beside me .

GettingUntrapped · 03/09/2021 18:10

As we parked the car, I said to my son, then nine, that the building across the street is an old people's home (we'd recently moved nearby
He replied: ' how old?'

Missatkins · 03/09/2021 18:13

At a restaurant and requested that I swap fries for salad, as I don't eat carbs. The waitress asked if I'd like a baked potatoe instead of fries 🤣

tomorrowalready · 03/09/2021 18:24

After replying No to are you married question, I was asked, "do you live with your parents then?" By an adult. I am 62.

But I also do want to know who are god's parents, Bluenotgreenmilk.

Intercity225 · 03/09/2021 18:33

Not me, DH aged 34

"Did you have an action man, when you were alive, Daddy?"

Icecreamwafer · 03/09/2021 18:49

We went to have a look at a kitten. We messaged to lady to say we were lost. (A very rural place with no street signage) She messaged back asking if we want help finding the place. Because giving us better directions would prematurely end the fun we had been having driving around the arse end of no where for an hour looking for her cottage.

EmmaGrundyForPM · 03/09/2021 20:09

DS has a summer birthday,so was due to start reception class just after his fourth birthday. We had to walk past the village school on the way to the play area, and I woukd say "That's the school you'll go to when you're four". One day he asked me "where's the school I'll go to when I'm five?"

BlankTimes · 03/09/2021 20:14

All the people who ask are girl/boy twins identical.

Yes, it's obviously a daft question, but I think what people are meaning to ask but phrase wrongly, is 'Do the twins look alike?'

Anyone who doesn't have twins in their family or social circle, rightly or wrongly 'knows' there are two types of twins, ones that look like each other, that they think are called identical twins, and ones that don't.