People & Dumb Questions

Ok, 1st of all, I want to start off by saying, dont take this offensive. Its ment to point out some dumb questions made by people. By people I mean any gender and any age (kids excluded because they dont know any better). Though some of this may be directed towards a certin group or gender, its not an attack, just...a observation.

I'm sure something like this has happen to you, so, just follow up with a similuar situation.

I get home from work, Im tired, Im weak and Im ready for bed. I head to the bedroom, take off my work cloths, get into my sleeping cloths and jump in bed. I start fixing and fluffing my pillow when my wife asks; "Are you getting ready for bed?" ....?.. No sweety, Im preparing to go sky diving!

I wake up early in the morning and start getting things ready to leave. I got my work pants on, my shirt, my shoes and Im putting on my tie. My wife turns and asks; "Are you getting ready for work?" ........ No babe, I like to wear ties and shoes when I go to the gym.

Even worse, I'm not preparing for, but actually engaged in the activity of washing my car, and my neighbor asks "Washing your car?"
I don't get it either.

lol, good one.

How about waking someone up to ask them are they asleep?

how about asking someone if you can have a piece of their gum when you already have in your hand unwrapped 2 inches from your mouth?!

I think comedian Bill Engvall has a whole slew of these he's collected for years.

"Here's your sign"

One of my favorites that he did...

He recently landed at an airport, only to find they had lost his luggage. So, he goes to the "lost luggage" office, where he tells them that the airline lost his luggage. The woman in the office asked him.... "Has your plane landed yet?"

Here's your sign...

How about asking someone that is lost,if they know where they are?

When crossing the border into Canada I'm asked if I'm carrying any illegal drugs or weapons.

'uuuhhhhhh-----errrrrrr?' HUH??

this could be a trick question.

LOl...Funny stuff.

This morning my wife tried to make me late for work. She told me to to come up with some excuse to tell them. She told me to tell them she was hit by a bus....LMAO! Ok, I told her, that might not be such a bad thing, we could get a fat paycheck. She says; "You would, I'd be dead!".

Wait a min, So, Im suppost to go to work and say "Sorry im late, my wife was killed by a bus". LMAO!

TimeCarnage wrote:

LOl...Funny stuff.
This morning my wife tried to make me late for work. She told me to to come up with some excuse to tell them. She told me to tell them she was hit by a bus....LMAO! Ok, I told her, that might not be such a bad thing, we could get a fat paycheck. She says; "You would, I'd be dead!".
Wait a min, So, Im suppost to go to work and say "Sorry im late, my wife was killed by a bus". LMAO!

that is pretty funny..so did get to work late or what?

lol....yes....she got hers.

TimeCarnage wrote:

lol....yes....she got hers.

lol...your a good man!

:) I was only a few mins late. I didnt have to include a bus in my excuse. All was well. lol.

I Dont smoke anymore, but I remember when I did someone would ask "Do You have An Extra Cig?" ..... um ... Yeah, my pack came with 21, would you like the extra one? lol.

TimeCarnage wrote:

Ok, 1st of all, I want to start off by saying, dont take this offensive. Its ment to point out some dumb questions made by people. By people I mean any gender and any age (kids excluded because they dont know any better). Though some of this may be directed towards a certin group or gender, its not an attack, just...a observation.
I'm sure something like this has happen to you, so, just follow up with a similuar situation.
I get home from work, Im tired, Im weak and Im ready for bed. I head to the bedroom, take off my work cloths, get into my sleeping cloths and jump in bed. I start fixing and fluffing my pillow when my wife asks; "Are you getting ready for bed?" ....?.. No sweety, Im preparing to go sky diving!
I wake up early in the morning and start getting things ready to leave. I got my work pants on, my shirt, my shoes and Im putting on my tie. My wife turns and asks; "Are you getting ready for work?" ........ No babe, I like to wear ties and shoes when I go to the gym.

lol, haha, good thread!

Shellikins wrote:

I think comedian Bill Engvall has a whole slew of these he's collected for years.
"Here's your sign"
One of my favorites that he did...
He recently landed at an airport, only to find they had lost his luggage. So, he goes to the "lost luggage" office, where he tells them that the airline lost his luggage. The woman in the office asked him.... "Has your plane landed yet?"
Here's your sign...

LOL

I asked my husband a really stupid question some months ago. I was going to google for a currency converter, but I couldn't remember the words for it in english (I'm obviously swedish) so I turn to my (irish) husband for some help. These were my exact words (all in english);

What's currency converter in english?

Confused husband; uh, currency converter?

Obviously the words were somewhere in the back of my brain and they came out just as I asked my husband. I was going to put in the swedish word for currency converter between the english words (hubby knows some swedish).

My excuse; I was really, really tired.

What do you mean by "dumb question"?

At times I'm at the switch board at work and this is a stupid question we get all the time;

When someone is on the phone and they get a new call that call will end up at the sitch board, so we ask them if they would like to wait until that person is done with the call. An awful lot of people then say; how long will that other call take?
Eh??
Maybe we should answer, yes Mr.... will get off the phone in 2 mins and 35 seconds, is that too long for you?
We're not psychic, how on earth could we tell how long someone elses phone call will take.
It's a huge company too and everyone is well aware of that so it's not like we would have these people just next to us. Or do they think we should interrupt the other call and ask them??

sharkbait wrote:

What do you mean by "dumb question"?

Tove wrote:

What's currency converter in english?
Confused husband; uh, currency converter?

lol, sorry Tove, it was a great and funny example. Nice post.

FlashBack21 wrote:

<quoted text>I think most people ask those kind of questions because they are being friendly and they want to get a conversation going on. They are just observing what you are doing and commenting on it and they want you to talk to them.

lol, Flashback21, I mean no harm by this thread. No need to justify the actions and questions. This is intended to get a few laughs at the simple mistakes we make in life. Harmless and humors.