WHAT’S THE DUMBEST THING YOU EVER HAD TO EXPLAIN?

Reddit asked: “What’s the dumbest thing you ever explained to someone?” Some of the responses:
– “Explaining that miles per hour, literally means, miles per hour.”
– “I had a friend whose sister had a panic attack when she learned that chicken comes from chickens.”
– “I had to teach a co-worker how to read an analog clock.”
– “I had to take Earth Science in college. One class we literally had a globe and we were supposed to find the longitude and latitude of Cape Town, South Africa. My partner – dead serious – looked at the continents on the globe and said: “Ugh, I can never remember which one Africa is”.
– “I explained to a 35-year-old co-worker that it is indeed impossible to step out on a cloud from an airplane.”
– “Once, to a customer, I had to explain that I cannot sell something that my store does not carry.”
– “I’m a teacher. I’ve had multiple students who have sworn up and down that chicken is a vegetable, or that Canada is a state. The dumbest was a high school girl who wrote a report on The Space Race and actually thought it was an actual race; as in, the U.S. and the Soviet Union just built rockets and they raced to the moon to see who had the fastest rocket.”
– “I once explained to a young co-worker how a hand pencil sharpener and a staple remover worked.”
– “I once had a girl in her early twenties ask me to reduce her schedule by one day, down from 5 to 4. No problem, we can accommodate that. About a month later she complained to me that her last few checks had been about 20% smaller. I had to explain to her that working less hours meant getting paid for less hours.”
– “That St. Louis, Missouri does not have a gigantic double arch.”
– “Why polar bears do not eat penguins.”
* Which reminds me: What’s the stupidest animal in the jungle? The polar bear.
* Sometimes it seems like EVERY state legalized marijuana.
* Who needs to know this crap when we have Siri?
* People who have been glued to screens all their lives have NOT been hanging out at Encyclopedia Britannica dot com.
* Any wonder why Wheel of Fortune gets more viewers than Jeopardy?
* It’s like all of America missed THAT DAY in school.
* PHONE TOPIC: What’s the dumbest question you ever had to answer?