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I had to explain to an adult woman that prunes are to plums as raisins are to grapes.

How fractions work to a 30 year old woman.

I literally had to draw a circle, and use the pie analogy from grade school.

I've had to explain tariffs a lot lately...

That you CANNOT gain more weight from a sugared drink than it actually weighs.

I got a job building touch screen information kiosks for a fundraising thing a university was doing for one of its STEM programs. I had my hands full building this thing, so they got one of the students at the college who "does video" to put the content together. I got one chance to talk to this girl, I start in "So the monitors I'm using are standard 1920x1080, so aim for that resolution" and she stopped me to ask what that meant. So I'm now convinced she wasn't a member of the AV club or in some video production major...she was someone's niece who's on Tiktok.

I eventually get an email with the files she was supposed to send to me. Each kiosk was going to be programmed differently to display information about the thing it was standing next to. I get a bunch of video files in no folder structure with names that don't mean anything. "charlton.mp4" "untitled.mp4." "melissa.mp4"

I replied with an email asking "How am I supposed to know which of these videos goes with which kiosk?" How do you end up with most of a bachelor's degree like this?

Evolution and other basic, elementary-level science to those who insist on the existence of some Skyman.

That narwhals are real. Partner thought they were mythological like unicorns.

Honestly, it was funny but somewhat understandable.

Women have three holes down there, not two. To be fair to him, the only women in his life he lived with for any length of time was his mother who was extremely private about all bathroom stuff and hid all her monthly items.

I work at a ski mountain, it was spring and the snow was melting. Had to explain that it needs to be below freezing out for the mountain to make more snow. "Fake" snow is still frozen water.

I didn't have to explain it, but I found myself in a situation where I was informing a grown woman that fish are indeed animals.

Just before the US election, I had to explain to a coworker that JD Vance was not going to be Kamala Harris’ VP and vice versa. I knew this person for 9 years, never thought they were a genius or anything but damn, I was dumbfounded when she asked if I could believe it, I think she has always thought whichever side wins has to take the other sides VP. I immediately lost a lot of hope for us that day.

I was in my late twenties when I learned that the numbers on a toaster are simply time and not degrees of toastiness.

That South Africa is a country. And Northern Ireland is not. To be fair, she was always up front about her knowledge of geography being abysmal.