What stupid questions have you been asked or overheard?

[TheTecknician]

During a training session when I worked in the motor insurance business, someone enquired if 'registration' and 'registration mark' were the same thing. The trainer's disdainful expression was a corker. In fairness to our enquirer, he has come a long way and is now MD of a large commercial insurance broker.

I think one daft question we will all have heard at some time or other is,

'Excuse me, do you have the right time?'
'No, but I have the wrong time if that's any use.'

I was in Rome at the Colosseum and standing next to a group of Americans who said it was awesome but asked where the real one was!

Was at a musical with a school group. Jesus Christ Superstar. One of the adults asked if there was a sequel. 🤨

Went into a lovely clock shop, think Cuckoo Clocks, Grandfather Clocks, every clock you can imagine , On holidays with my brother in law.
He walks in, and says to the sales assistant, excuse me, have you got the time?
She automatically looked at her watch, Then everyone laughed, got the joke.

My twin brother and I have often been asked if we're identical, but the stupidest time was the person who said, 'You two don't even look like brother and sister let alone twins. Are you identical?'

I once heard someone ask if a lamb was a baby sheep. This person was around 20.....

Not a stupid question but a stupid comment: was at the theatre watching a murder mystery, the red herring character the whole way through had been ‘Joe’, low and behold Joe was not the culprit!
Leaving the theatre I overheard a women say ‘Well, I still think it was Joe! I don’t believe that Tim did it!’ 🤷‍♀️

'Do you have fridges in Ireland?'

I worked with a dickhead manager who thought he was smarter than he was. We had training from really high up superiors and when they asked we had any questions he asked the stupidest question. It was completely coveted in the training, was even in the title of the training (I can’t recall it now as it was 13 years ago). The senior managers delivering the training raised their eyebrows and looked at each other as if to say ‘is this guy for real???’. They did answer and pointed at the PowerPoint.when we came out Dickhead said ‘always ask a question you know the answer too so you sound smart when you ask a follow up?’ Yeah great but still try to look as though you have actually listened.

Someone asked me years ago on another parenting forum if I had tried a juice cleanse to "cure" DS autism. They were, of course, also part of an MLM selling juice. That one was pretty good.

Is is just me who doesn’t understand registration vs registration mark??

No I don't understand either

Thank goodness for that! 😁

Fair enough. Probably a weak example but in the context of what we were learning about in the business we were in, it demonstrated a lack of awareness.

Here's a better one. A barrister I once knew of asked where Flemland was during a conversation on Belgian languages, specifically Flemish. They may be learned on the law but as for geography...

I have many dc and have been asked many times how I have so many.
Have been polite and said if they don't know by now they need to speak to their dps....

I used to work in a shop the centre of a city. Every week, more in the summer, someone would come in and ask where the cathedral was. This was despite it being totally visible through the window behind me. How they could miss a hundred yards of Gothic stonework blotting out the sky, I don't know!

It might be the second marriage for both of you. So, if you and your partner had 3 children each before you met, plus one from your marriage you might say you had 7 while you only gave birth to 4.

I do understand what you mean, but maybe they meant something inspired by the Acts of the Apostles?

The New Testament doesn’t end after the Gospels.

I have boy/girl twins and have often been asked if they're identical, but one time I was asked by a doctor at the children's hospital (which worried me). My dd (is asd and into human biology) she often gets asked and gives a lesson in DNA! I wish I'd had the confidence to do that to the dr.

"is this the right train?". No other clues whatsoever and when I said "where are you trying to get to" the woman said I just need to know if I'm on the right train. How I was supposed to determine that for her I am not sure
Well if you're trying to get to Leeds yes. If you want to go to Sheffield or London, no.

That's kind of brilliant, in an existential kind of way. I hope you stroked your chin, looked philosophical, and said 'Well, is any one of us on the right train, really?' rather than gave her a smack with your umbrella and told her to cop herself on.

It was me that said it.
Been in McD before and saw they also sell chicken as well as beef burgers etc so when I went with a friend to KFC for the first time I looked at the menu and saw there was only chicken on it so I said - Do they only sell chicken?
There was silence and then the reply - I think the clue is in the name.
I was so embarrassed as every around was looking at me, never going in there again as the food was shit anyway.

A long time ago I was a nurse in central London. In those days our uniform was full old fashioned nurse. Blue starched dress, belt,white collar,starched apron, frilly hat,the works. If we went outside we wore the blue wool cape with red straps crossing over our chests.

One day I had to go off the ward and down the street to the blood bank. We used to put the collected bags of blood down the front of our aprons to warm it up. So in full outfit,blood and all,I sailed down the street only to be stopped by an American tourist. "Excuse me" he said. "Are you a nurse?"

"Do horses go to the glue factory when they die"?

After losing my lovely horses over the years and hearing the question a dozen times my patience wears a bit thin.

Not me but there is a lady who is blind who is famous for something, not sure what. Anyway she was saying on facebook that she is having ivf and somebody asked her if she was having ivf because blind people can't have sex because they can't see where the other person is!

When I worked in Subway people were always asking what the difference was between a six inch sub and a foot long sub.

About six inches.