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.'

Way back in the 80s I was asked if we needed foreign currency and travellers cheques when we went on a course in Wales.

It was my colleague who asked me...and we were working for a high street bank with a foreign currency till at the time

People asking the price of things in the £1 shop.

TBF some end at midnight, they therefore begin earlier.

ETA, I’ve lost my quote! It was about people asking what time midnight mass starts

I agree, Deft. It’s not such a daft question at all.
I mean, you’re watching a musical about Jesus! So, Tim Rice could also have written a sequel, about Jesus’ post-resurrection, but pre-ascension life.

"Miss, how do you spell RSPCA?"

Nobody is seriously going to ask somebody for the wrong time, are they?

I have a few I've asked and told.

1. You need a man for money.
2. you will never know what love is if you dont have a child.
3. You will be so lonely in old age if you dont have kids to take care of you.
4. Who looks after you if your single.
5. You dont know who you are because your bi you need therapy.

In our local café 2 days ago, one of the regulars who had a sore neck, was asking someone if they had seen a psychopath for their neck. He meant an osteopath....

Pound shop in my town isn't £1 anymore.
Its 12345678910 and upwards.

During nurse training one girl asked if the stomach digests food why doesn't it digest itself .

Apparently the quarter pounder was introduced because the '4' in the 1/4 appeared more than the 3 in 1/3.

Originally it was supposed to be a third pounder (more meat, bigger).

My favourite was sitting behind two guys on the Eurostar to Paris and hearing one of them ask his friend if he would be ok to get money out of a cashpoint in France because his bank account was only in English money!

Ds1 (aged about 14) once asked the waitress in a coffee shop “What’s in the beef sandwich, please?” She said “Beef” - with a rather baffled expression!

What he actually wanted to know was whether the sandwich had mustard or horseradish and salad in it - but that isn’t what he asked. To this day, a daft question is known in this family as a beef sandwich question.

Working in a major high street store one Xmas Eve was asked by a panic stricken looking man holding up a jumper “Will this fit my wife?”
I had never met this man or his wife before.
he then added “she’s a 34C”
so he’d done his research to buy underwear but not jumpers!
i advised him to keep the receipt

Ours starts at 11.30.

That has to be in line for one of the daftest!

Perfectly logical.
It doesn't start at midnight.

I think ours starts around 11.30pm 🙂

Oh another one. Our dad died and my sibling let a company know that. He was trying to sort out an account or something.

They asked "can I speak to the policy holder?"

Er, no. Like I just told you, he is deceased.

Do you know you’ve got 2 black eyes and a broken nose?

Id fell over and hit a wall unit full on. I heard the crack of my nose breaking and the bruising filled both eye sockets, it lasted for 3 weeks using the full rainbow of colours for bruising.

A surprising amount of strangers in shops and in the street asked me if I was aware of my injuries!

I don't get this?

How else was the receptionist supposed to know what colour your cat is?

They didn't ask "what colour is a penguin?"

In a train that was slowing down as it went through Oxford, a family group pointing at various buildings in the distance and arguing amongst themselves which one was 'the University'.

One of my Dad's wife's relatives when he said they were off to see the Northern Lights - 'when do they switch them on?' No word of a lie

Was in the hair dressers and overheard this between another customer and a hairdresser:

C 'do we share blood ?'
H 'what ?'
C 'do we share blood ?'
H 'I don't understand..'
C 'do we share blood. Cos we're cousins'

Think she meant DNA.

My two sons had a conversation about what day Christmas day was, and then about how stupid the asker was for not knowing it was the 25th, and then about how stupid the askee was for not realising he meant which day of the week, and so on.

My daughter texted me last year to ask for my phone number.

She's a teacher.