34 Times Adults Didn’t Know Very Basic Things And Someone Had To Give Them A Reality Check
Article created by: Gabija Saveiskyte
We all have at least a few gaps in our knowledge—that’s no secret. That being said, it genuinely feels like there are some core bits of education and fundamental life skills that every grownup should be well-versed in.
Members of the AskReddit subreddit took to a couple of mind-boggling online threads to share the things they’ve personally witnessed other adults not know, from how elementary biology works to how (not) to treat others. Scroll down to read the seemingly common sense things they’ve had to explain to grownups. But be warned, you might want to cringe and facepalm.
That OCD doesn’t mean you like to keep things clean, it means Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. In simple terms it means you have a thing you have to do and if not done it’s like you cannot progress past that point wether it be beeping the microwave a certain amount of times, taking no more or no less than two steps per sidewalk tile or squinting your eyes when you blink. It’s a compulsion thing not a cleanliness thing.
Not me but my father had to do it. Parents were visiting my older brother, his friend was there, he finds out my father is an Engineer. Knows Air Conditioning well etc.
He tells my father, the central air in my house doesn’t work. No matter how much I increase the power, it still doesn’t cool. during winter I keep it at 70, but once summer came I increased it to 80 it still doesn’t work.
My father looks at him… confused… then something clicks.
Slowly, my father replies, “The. Number. You. Are. Changing. Is. NOT. The. Power. It. Is. Temperature. If. You. Want. It. Cooler. You. Will. Have. To. Set. A. Lower. Number.
This was a guy in his late thirties and was an MBA.
One day at work, the electricity went out. One of the higher-ups made her way from her dark office to my dark office to ask me to look up something on the computer for her. I said I could look it up when the electricity came back on. She didn’t understand why I couldn’t do it right that second. “Because the computer runs on electricity.”
Not only was that higher-up an adult, but she was highly educated with a Ph.D and everything.
That Hawaii IS a state and that Puerto Rico ISN’T a state, but still a part of the US and it’s people are citizens.
I have also told people who are from Puerto rico that they are US citizens and that is why they don’t need green cards to come to the mainland to visit, work, move, etc.
That rabbits do not hatch from eggs for Easter like you see on commercials. I have rabbits that I bring places with me, a co- worker asked how big the eggs were? I had to explain that to an adult. My son has a big plastic egg, so as a joke I put a baby rabbit in it and showed him.
I work for an early intervention program where therapists work with little ones in homes and daycares doing speech therapy, physical therapy, occupational therapy, etc. I had a parent get upset over the phone when I told her her child’s provider cannot come to the home if the child has hand, foot, and mouth disease because it’s contagious and since they visit several homes a day all day and also work with medically fragile kids, they can’t spread illness around. She wasn’t having it. We’ve had providers get URI’s and gastro bugs and spread them around the office because parents don’t let them know they or the kids are sick because they don’t want to cancel appointments.
