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.'

My DD was mad on Mr Tumble when she was a toddler and my mother asked why he was doing sign language so I explained it was Makaton which helps very young children to communicate. In the next breath she asked, "Is that for the blind?". There is so many wrong things about that woman.

My mother was the Parish Priest's housekeeper and each year on Christmas Eve, she would receive calls asking, "What time is midnight mass?"

Another stupid comment, rather than a stupid question.
A colleague had come into the office, after being on annual leave, and he’d grown a beard.
Which looked great. He was about 20% more handsome. I kept this thought to myself!

Another colleague came over and said (unasked, mind you): i don’t like it. It looks like you haven’t shaved.

I mean. 🤷🏻‍♀️

“What part of the fish does tuna come from?” Refused to believe that the whole fish was called a tuna fish and it was probably from the tuna’s fillets.

“Penguins are fish aren’t they?” Same girl during the same conversation. She was about 21 at the time and a junior manager attending a meeting with slightly more senior managers. Bless 🙄

I have to pull my wheelchair in behind me into the passenger compartment of my vehicle in order to be able to transfer, access and drive it.
My line manager wanting me to give a (disabled) colleague who'd told them, they couldn't climb into the back, a lift to a work related thing: "Can't you just put it (wheelchair) in the boot, and walk to the drivers door? It's not far..." 😂

Not a question, a statement: the woman in a supermarket queue who had a go at me and rounded it off with "at least you get to sit down all day!"
She then got increasingly angry that I couldn't stop laughing, and flounced. 😂

Loads more, but not that funny, but this one's so classic it has to be here:

In common probably with every parent raising an autistic child: "Have you tried star charts?

I was at work and a customer asked me what I did for work 😂

When a mummy and daddy love each other very much…

Overheard this in a department store. I was standing beside two women who were looking at some watches and they were discussing whether a watch was waterproof. One said to the other that she needed the waterproof watch for swimming so it had to be good quality.

The other one pointed out that the panel beside the display gave all the technical info about the watch she was looking at. She glanced at the panel and said “waterproof to 25 meters. Sure that’s no good, that’s only two lengths of the pool”.

I tried not to laugh as the other woman said “No Barbara, it’s 25 meters DOWN”.

A woman in front of me in a queue in Morrisons, "was that my name they shouted" on the tanoy.
I'd never seen her before in my life

All asked by the same American when we were visiting Florida in the late 1980s…

How had we travelled from England? Did we drive or fly?

Did English people have televisions?

Did English houses have inside bathrooms?

No, they genuinely thought there was Jesus Christ Superstar 2. Trust me, I knew the lady!

Ok, quite a while ago now, but dd and friends were asked in the US whether we had electricity in England.

Well I once asked my colleagues what time the 24h Tesco closed at🤷‍♀️

I had someone argue with me once that my boy/girl twins could actually be identical. Even after I'd told them it's their whole body that has to be the same, not just faces...

Crying! 🤣🤣🤣

I'm guilty of this one: As a teen, I got friendly with a Danish guy. I asked him if he believed in Odin, Thor, etc. He managed to keep a straight face as he explained that Christianity had some time ago arrived in Denmark.

I was sitting in a cafe breastfeeding my 2 week old and a man came over to me and said 'Is she yours or are you a childminder?'
My dad said to my Mum 'Dave has grown a moustache'. My mum said 'where?'

I worked at a travel agency in a university in the 1980s. There were a lot of US students. They didn't know that there was sea between us and the Continent, thought that they'd find us wearing crinolines, and all sorts of other oddities.

How old are ponies when they turn into horses?

Overheard on a train about 20 years ago.

I've been asked multiple times how long it will take for our shetlands to grow up. People seem baffled and amazed when I explain that horses and ponies are all different breeds and grow to the size of their breed standard generally.
Yes, this 10.2hh shetland will definitely be growing to be the same as my 18hh Selle Francais. This is adults asking too, not children. Yes, I know not everyone knows about animals, or horses specifically, but that seems very basic!

To be fair, that show does end with the crucifixion, and there is no resurrection.
So, maybe it needs a sequel?

A bloke from our US office once visited the London branch and asked me why British people don't say thank you to Americans for fighting in ww2. Totally random, we'd been talking about sales figures, not wars.

Standing in a shop queue once and the woman ahead of me was outraged because she couldn't get cashback on her credit card. Poor cashier was trying to explain they were only able to do it with a debit card. This woman genuinely did not understand the difference.

To be fair, “midnight mass” is at 9pm on Christmas Eve in my parish.

I live in England and I mentioned at work that we were going to North Wales the following weekend. One of my colleagues asked if we were going to Wales on the ferry, when I replied that we weren’t (while also looking confused), she asked how we were going to get there. Erm, up the A5 I imagine Tracy

Wheres Dad?

By my 12yo, 36hrs after DH has gone a work trip. She didn't mean where in the country, she meant in the house.

She had had several meals without him, hD said goodbye as he left, and had an evening alone (well with her 14yo sister) in the house while I was at a committee meeting.