I CAN’T BELIEVE I HAD TO EXPLAIN THIS TO AN ADULT

Reddit asked, “What was your ‘I can’t believe I have to explain this to an adult’ moment?” Some of the responses:
– “My mom set up her phone to unlock using her fingerprint, except she scanned her index fingerprint and then tried to unlock it with her thumb. When it didn’t work and she couldn’t understand why. She didn’t know fingerprints were different on each finger.”
– “I had to explain to a friend that wind is not created by tree leaves rustling together vigorously.”
– “When I worked at a video store, a customer came in to return the copy of Wizard of Oz that they had rented, stating ‘I wanted the color version — this one is in black and white.’ I asked how much of it they had watched. ‘Just a few minutes.'”
– “The amount of times I have had to tell people that no, those are not ticks on your cat/dog’s stomach. They are nipples.”
– “My sister and I were watching the live action Lion King, and she wondered how many trainers it took to get all the different animals to stay in their places and perform on cue. Had to explain that the animals are all CGI. My sister is 47.”
– “That getting a raise will not make you lose money by going into a higher tax bracket.”
– “Explaining to an upper manager how a greeting card worked. Like, how a piece of paper could be folded in half to create an ‘outside’ and ‘inside.'”
– “I had to explain to a person who was responsible for manually calculating the timesheets of dozens of people, in front of her manager, that hours did not have 100 minutes and she’d been undercalculating everyone’s hours for years.”
– “That limes are not unripe lemons.”
* PHONE TOPIC: What basic thing have you had to explain to an adult?