What ways have you seen someone hilariously fail using an everyday item?

My 90-year-old grandmother was teed off at some other 70-year-olds cooking for a church

because they were trying to peel eggs with a vegetable peeler.

Witnessed multiple people asked why North just moved on a compass after they'd rotated 90 degrees.

I really suck at land navigation and compasses

and azimuths and all that stuff, but reading this made me feel like a land nav genius.

When a friend and I were in Rome, we were in a restroom and we couldn't figure out how to turn on

the sink. We looked for handles, we checked if it had a motion sensor, nothing.

Just when we were about to give up hope, I saw a small rubber dome under each sink.

I decided to step on it and voila, water.

The best part was that there was a man waiting to wash his hands who probably thought that we were the two biggest idiots in the world.

We went to the UK this summer and met

our first electric shower. Could not figure out how to turn it on until we accidentally

flipped the switch in the hallway, and voila! Feels dumb in retrospect, but it was completely

far into us, literally and figuratively. I worked with someone who genuinely did not know

how to use paper clips. He was really embarrassed when

someone called him out on not knowing and showed him how. I worked with someone that would hole punch

the top left corner, then put the paper clip in like a keychain. After years of using families

Windows 98, I upgraded the family with an old but gold computer. My mother rang me three

times in the next two weeks because she couldn't find the power button. Why? Because the old

computer had a big red power button and the new computer was broken because it had a big blue

power button in the exact same spot.

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