When did a clueless adult make you say, how the hell do you not know that? My mum can't remember

whether blue or red is associated with hot or cold. When she's in the car and wants to turn on

the AC, she just randomly sets the dial to one side or the other and waits for the air to come on

to see whether she's right or not. I've met more than one person who just doesn't

get fire alarms. When my husband and I first got an apartment together, we were cooking and we

burned something. The smoke caused the smoke alarm to start beeping. Instead of opening the window

to let the smoke out like a normal person, he calmly walked to the door and began putting on

his shoes to go outside and wait

for the fire department to come, because he thought that when the smoke alarm goes off, that's what

you do. After all, why else would we have gone through all those fire drills in elementary school?

My grandmother is 88 years old, drives a Ford Mustang, doesn't know how to put gas in her car, has literally

driven cars for 70 years without ever once using a gas pump. She calls me every few weeks to go over

there and follow her to the gas station so I can pump for her. I don't have the heart to tell her

that the employees will do it if she asks nicely, since it's one of the few occasions where I see her.

My college roommate asked me how to make a sandwich, like how to actually put mayonnaise on the bread and slice a tomato.

He was 22 and had been recently accepted to medical school. God help us. Context, I've been living

with this girl for several months. When we were out this weekend, she wanted to take a cab home, but we were all so broke, so we took public transportation, and she took a cab with another friend of ours. When we got off the bus, three blocks from the apartment, we ran into our friend. He told me the following story. She gave the cab driver the wrong directions. They got to the apartment without her directions, but she didn't have her

keys. She had no idea how to ring the bell to the apartment. Someone held the door for her,

but she refused to go in because she thought she'd be stuck. My friend realized he was expected to

help her. She never considered calling any of the other five of us who lived there, and now she's

upset because we didn't know

she didn't have her keys and won't speak to us. In short, one of our friends got lost on the

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