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.'

Dd1-if you wake up dead,do you know your dead?

Ds-who are gods parents?(no idea-ask grandad)

Dd2-when do chickens turn into turkeys?

That seems a bit unfair.

we can all have an off moment.

God’s parents are Mr and Mrs Big-Bang.

'Do you have a protective coat to put on my reflective jacket?'

To work on a construction site.

Asked by an engineer

My children are two years apart. Once when I was taking them out with a double pram/buggy combo (my two year old in the pushchair part and my then just born in the pram part) one random person stopped to exclaim "ah how lovely, are they twins?"

Erm.... yes, they are indeed twins. One I used an anti ageing face cream on and the other I didnt 😂

My DTs get asked this a lot and have had the same response about not looking alike etc. There are many strange people around!

Ahhh you totally get it. We also get asked often, is your twin a brother or a sister…we’re identical!!!

not a question but during a conversation- 20 + year old woman in work whilst talking about how food grows, confidently exclaimed 'peas grow on trees'! Then went on to explain that 'the trees were shock and they collected the peas off the ground with a special machine.

"Are we in the right place?"

I don't know, where is it that you want to be?!

@silkysoft my mum tells of how she got on a bus and a woman exclaimed "how lovely, you have twins!"

She did not. One of them was a large stuffed animal.

The US lack of geographic knowledge is legendary - and well deserved.

I was born in UK, but have lived in Canada for many years. While visiting in the US, I have been asked:
"Is London near England?"
and
"Is Canada east of the US?"

They probably meant what time does it start. It's not midnight is it?

🤣

"What do you mean by 'paying suppliers by direct debit'?"

Our new accounting software provider asked me this on Monday when I was talking to him about supplier payment methods. I asked him to clarify how the new system segregates those suppliers so they don't get included on the monthly BACS payment run.

A lifetime ago, watching ‘Ghost’ in the cinema. Half way through the film the woman next to me loudly asked her friend if Patrick Swayze’s character was dead.

Years back I worked in a police press office. There was a press agency notorious for asking stupid questions. The most memorable was when I told them someone had fallen from the 20th storey of a building. 'Did they fall all the way?' they asked. Erm...

I don't see a problem with asking either of those questions. Someone could be asking for the right time as their watch has stopped.

Yesterday someone from an energy company asked me what relation I was to my father…

Our FTBs messaged after they moved in
You know that big tree in the garden, will it carry on growing?!
One of a list of unusual questions and requests.

And??

Are they?
Grandad just mumbled something and walked away!xxx

yes but what is the answer? 😁 are they the same thing?

tbh I think there's a few examples on this thread that aren't particularly stupid at all, if anything the person mocking them is revealing their own lack of knowledge.
e.g. sequel to JCS - yes, Jesus himself might not appear (although to be fair the main character 'dying' in the original/source material didn't stop Gladiator 2 or Wicked, for example!) but there are about 2000 years of history that could prove material for a sequel!

same with the midnight mass query - I've never heard of any church actually starting it at midnight - in fact, here What's On: Midnight Mass - London for Christmas 2025 all start it at different times, somewhere between 11pm and 11.30.

And 'Do you have the right time,' - if the responder is so pedantic to reply 'well I wouldn't give you the wrong time,' when it's obvious what is meant, then they're clearly the sort of person who would be equally arsey if you didn't include 'right' and just asked 'Do you have the time?', and would probably respond with 'Do I have the time to do what?' or similar?

The star chart pisses me off mine wouldn't understand a bloody star chart. They would take star of the chart and eat them.

Out with twin DDs in the buggy, both wearing frilly dresses as it was summer, to get

”Ah twins - a boy and a girl! Now your family is complete!”

Another day out in the summer, with twin DDs in the buggy (DD1 had curly mousy hair, while DD2 had straight white hair)

”Ah twins - how do you tell them apart?”

One night, DH and went for a drink, a rare occasion, to be asked:

”So, you’ve got twins? Did you have sex twice that night?”

(No, actually we had IVF!)

My sister is 18 months younger than me but we look very alike. We have always had comments asking if we were twins and most people accept we are not - but one person asked me if I was sure. Well wait a minute and let me check!