What was the stupidest reply to a serious question that you ever heard?

I was a nanny when I was in college for this very bizarre family who always pretended like I wasn't there.

I was walking down the street with the mother and her two kids.

It was February and the sun glare was really bad, so naturally I was wearing sunglasses.

One of the kids, about four, asked his mother why I was wearing sunglasses in winter, and

the mother responds, well, some people are not that smart and they just want to look cool.

Please note, both parents were professors at an Ivy League college.

My friend was a second-year medical student, and she was walking through the

main floor of our hospital in Scrubs. She was stopped by a passer-by, asking for directions, and she was

asked, hey, where is P-T-C-T? She said, uh, I think there's one in the nearby mall? The man looked at her

confused and was like, the P-T-C-T is in the mall? And she replies, yeah, like the second floor, I think.

It's not called Pet City though, it's called Pet World, I think. Do you think I'm

looking for the Pet Store? Two years of medical education and common sense returned to

her in that moment and said, oh my God, you mean the scan. No, it's down that hall on the right. I'm so sorry.

He shook his head walking away and we heard him say,

I wish I was looking for a frickin' pet store.

I was in college and went to the calculus study hall to see if I could learn something.

One of the problems was something like,

A man throws a ball on the moon at a speed of X

miles per hour at an angle of Y degrees, how long before the ball comes down?

The response from the teacher's assistant, who is a PhD candidate in math, that's a stupid

question.

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