How Do You Not Know How to Do This? | People Stories

[@UncleMikeDrop]

When a man steps up like that to teach the kids full skillsets. It makes sense to drop the "step". That's straight up DAD energy.

[@FerreTrip]

That guy definitely earned Real Man Points. Instead of blaming the new spouse and waiting for her to do it, he went in and did the work himself because _that's what parents fucking DO._

[@hauntedshadowslegacy2826]

@@FerreTrip My AMAB sibling wound up teaching me how to use a chainsaw when half a tree collapsed in our backyard. I cackled like a super villain with the newfound power, yet they still let me help disassemble the fallen tree.

[@evilarchconservative2952]

That is beyond AWESOME Man energy. Got a story to add. My Nephew was roughly 20 or 21 and had been working his first job for long enough that he was ready to buy his first vehicle. (Long story but his first vehicle was from his Grandfather after he passed.) His Step-father (approximately 12 years) found him a small truck, WITH A MANUAL transmission. My Mom, his Grandmother was 🤢🤮🥵 seriously not happy. (Did I mention seriously dysfunctional family?) Anyway Step-father spent 3-4 weeks teaching my My Nephew how to drive a manual transmission. Ironically my Dad gave you trying to teach me how to drive a manual transmission after 30 minutes.

[@xanderunderwoods3363]

🙂❤️

[@mygreenfroggy]

The problem of mowing is real, lol. My dad wouldn't let me use the electric mower because "girls didn't", lol. I got my own electric cordless mower at the age of 62, ran like a dream.

[@benjaminwingert434]

Where the fuck are you from that they had electric lawn mowers 50 plus years ago

[@DubCatXero]

@@benjaminwingert434 the electric powered lawnmower was created in 1930’s, but took awhile to gain popularity.

[@tegantalks9612]

I’m 27, and even though my parents made me mow the lawn, I still struggle with getting it started lol

[@goldiefatale]

i wasn't allowed to mow..i just did it one day.

[@annastarr2043]

@@benjaminwingert434 Wait what? Wtf? I'm 63 & used an electric mower when I was 14.

[@drakemarshall2155]

My ex-wife was not the brightest bulb in the lamp. She could never admit fault or wrong-doing, either. The straw that broke the camel's back for me was Chinese food, actually. I mentioned once that I'd always wanted to try Moo Goo Gai Pan. When I said that, she laughed and said that I was making up all those nonsense words. (This was late '90s by the way, and she was not internet savvy at all.) I told her that I wasn't joking, and that it was a real thing. She called me a liar to my face and insisted I was trying to put one over on her for trying to make her believe that this gibberish I was talking about was real. I finally had to physically take her to a Chinese restaurant and point it out to her on the menu, because she wouldn't believe anything I showed her on the computer. After more than a dozen years of putting up with shit like this, I finally snapped. When I pointed it out to her on the menu, she said that I was always trying to make her feel stupid. Like I said, I had finally reached my limit. I told her, "You don't need me to make you feel stupid. You ARE stupid." We divorced two months later, and it was the best thing that had happened to me since I met her. Never should have married that arrogantly uneducated moron in the first place, so I guess that made me stupid as well. Frick you, Lorrie. Eat a bag of gangrenous donkey dicks.

[@workingguy-OU812]

Some women are so self centered that they constantly protect and defend their knowledge base - however faulty it may be. Man, you dodged a bullet getting out of that one.

[@drakemarshall2155]

@@workingguy-OU812 Looking back, I feel like I dodged a whole firing squad!

[@jgw5491]

@@workingguy-OU812 Some -women- people are so self centered that they constantly protect and defend their knowledge base - however faulty it may be. Fixed that for you.

[@syrefayne8922]

@@jgw5491 i was thinking the same thing 👍👍

[@Kat-tr2ig]

I divorced my husband shortly after he tried to beat the shit out of me, because I had a boil. To him, they were sexually transmitted and so I was cheating on him, and he refused to believe otherwise. He should meet Lorrie. They would get along well.

[@Alverant]

Not everyone realizes that midnight is the START of the day, not the END of one. I work in IT I'll have people say something like "We want this to be up on the website but automatically taken down at midnight on the 23rd." Then complain when it's 8am on the 23rd why it's down. I'm like "Midnight on the 23rd was 8 hours ago." I don't have this problem with veterns. They know that midnight is 0:00 hours.

[@Loverleezack]

Im a maid and when we first locked down it was shocking how many daily phone calls I got from various clients who didn't know how to do basic things like, use their washer/drier, clean their bathtub, clean their stove tops etc. One client even made toxic gas trying to mix cleaning solutions to "disinfect" things. I had to explain that you cant mix bleach and peroxide.

[@MW-on1ft]

Or bleach and ammonia, mother did when I was a kid. She was an idiot.

[@jccw227]

When I was in college, I taught my roommate how to iron his clothes. He grew up in a wealthy household, and I did this primarily because I didn’t like him asking the girl that lived next door to us to do it for him every time.

[@miraclealiencookies9401]

Sounds like you cockblocked :(

[@TheMrgameflare]

@@miraclealiencookies9401 same thing I was thinking. That was his in.

[@WASDLeftClick]

If y’all think asking a girl to iron your clothes for you is a good social in to try and develop a relationship or at least have sex with her, I have very bad news for you.

[@miraclealiencookies9401]

@@WASDLeftClick nobody said anything about that being a good move 🤣

[@TheMrgameflare]

@@miraclealiencookies9401 right, but my guy was trying.

[@CMoneyBounceHouse]

I relate to the first one a lot. Parents had a lot of money growing up, so we always had maids doing stuff for us. Cleaning our rooms, doing chores, cooking, cleaning. I wasn’t so sheltered that I thought those were only for maids to do or anything, but I just never had to do stuff like that. My “chores” were to take the garbage out twice a week, and to do the unload or load the dishes MAYBE once a week. Occasionally I had to clean my room too, but only if the maid wasn’t gonna be there on a day we’d have company over. Then, my parents got divorced, and I met my stepdad, who’s a “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” kinda guy. He was absolutely livid to find out how little we did helping out around the house (my mom couldn’t afford a maid anymore). He basically showed me how to be a functioning human. Looking back, it’s ridiculous how little my parents did to prepare me for life. Luckily I’m now 23, have a steady job, a car, a dog, an apartment, and keep my place nice and clean. As painful as it was to get to this point (there were many tough lessons, and less than fun confrontations with my parents), I’m glad that it happened. I don’t even wanna know what kind of man I’d be if my parents had stayed together.

[@owlthepirate5997]

You and your boyfriend look very happy together! ☺️ I'm glad everything turned out so good for you!

[@FerreTrip]

As a 30-year-old man, I envy you having all those things ;w; (I mean, I'm on the autism spectrum, and my own dad failed to teach me a lot of things, but....)

[@darkexcalibur87]

My fiancé's story is very similar to yours, except he truly never had the opportunity to start learning things until after he moved out. We've been together 5 years and I still feel like I'm teaching him things his parents should have.

[@AwesomeMusicLady]

A woman got a flat in the parking lot of where I work. She called roadside assistance and ordered a drink then sat down to wait. Hours went by and it was going to be dark soon. I asked my manager if I could go help her change the tire since it was getting dark soon. The roadside assistance guy showed up after we’d already jacked the car up and loosened some of the lug nuts.she went off on the roadside assistance guy and told him to leave. I walked her through how to change the tire and she drove home. She came back the next day to where I work to give me a thank you note and cash. I still have that thank you note.

[@michaelmclachlan1650]

My father insisted that both my mother and sister know how to change a wheel. Mind you he did forget to ensure that the jack he kept in the car would still fit underneath when a tyre was flat. My mother found out it didn't.........

[@hauntedshadowslegacy2826]

Fun fact: I have learned how to change a tire despite a) being medically unable to drive and b) being physically unable to turn the wrench even if I jump on the damn thing with my full body weight. (To be fair, I'm a runt and don't weigh much at all in the grand scheme...)

[@AwesomeMusicLady]

HauntedShadowsLegacy buy a different wrench. I had the same problem so I bought a big wrench with four long poles that’s shaped like an X. With that one I can loosen the lug nuts and get them off by just turning it with my hands Without it I’d have to jump on it to put all my weight into it multiple times before it came off.

[@sirenblack]

I met a 18 year old at work that couldn’t make a bed. We were doing a display and I told her to put the new sheets on while I went to get more stock and she just laid the duvet cover and pillow cases on top of the pillow and duvet. The manager wasn’t even mad he just couldn’t stop laughing. I had to teach her how to do that, iron, change light bulbs and so many so many more things

[@mrn234]

When she came from a normal household i wonder what her parents did all day... I made my bed the first time alone on a week long schooltrip in the 4th (and last) year of elementary here in Germany.

[@kaiseremotion854]

@@mrn234 I'm just...confused...making a bed takes some trial and error but like, its not THAT complex. neither is changing a lightbulb once you figure out its simple turning

[@mrn234]

@@kaiseremotion854 You still need somebody to "teach" you how to make it. Same with cooking. I met so many people who cant make their own Bolognese from scratch (it takes time but its easy) or overall cant do more in the kitchen then making noodles and heat up things or just throw something premade in the oven.

[@kaiseremotion854]

@@mrn234 for example I'd consider myself sheltered (don't know how to use a washer/drier) but I'm sure I'd be able to figure it out between google and whatnot.

[@mrn234]

@@kaiseremotion854 Start to learn it. Doesnt hurt ... and even these days i wouldnt trust to have internet all the time everywhere.

[@spooniesarah]

This is an example of my dad's tendency to completely and truly forget any information which is irrelevant. You know how you normally open a bag of chips? By grasping either side near the top and pulling the sides apart? It's noisy. For years we had to cut the bags open with a pair of scissors because my brother had very bad noise sensitivity. Even after he improved, we still opened chip bags with scissors, because we were used to it and we still liked the quieter method. Well, one day we're eating at a family friend's house, and the husband hands dad a bag of chips. And no scissors. Dad was completely lost, didn't know how to open the chips without scissors...even though he had done it the normal way for the vast majority of his life. He just completely and totally ejected that knowledge from his brain because it wasn't useful or necessary for several years. I was dumbfounded. The friend kinda dismissed dad's request for scissors and just opened the bag himself. No lightbulb moment for dad. His reaction wasn't "oh I forgot", it was more like "oh there's an alternative method I never considered".

[@tavej4718]

12:47… I have health issues that require me to keep my birth certificate, SSN card and health insurance card with me at all times in the event I need rushed to a hospital. I am always scared that they will be stollen so I wear an anti theft travel bag as my purse. It goes on your shoulder and across your chest so it’s harder for a purse snatcher to grab it and run away with it, and I NEVER take it off in public.

[@MorgaineRiddlePrince]

My 6 year old nephew was told he could be allowed to buy stuff in fortnite if he did chores. So yesterday he vacummed, washed the floor, did a bit of tidying and washed the dishes while I dried and checked them for cleanliness. He also regularly put the soap in the washing mashine under supervision. And we make pancakes together with each their own pan.

[@Samqdf]

That's a great way to going about both motivating and teaching him things.

[@rakaneko4229]

W Fortnite kid

[@RevolverOcelot2008]

Yeah pancakes and scrambled eggs are two things my dad taught me to cook at that age. I was also helping my mom make meatballs for the Sunday sauce (Italian American 😂) by that age. I was shocked in middle school home economics class when so many kids didn't know basic cooking skills or even how to use a can opener

[@Taiakami777]

This is so bloody wholesome, good on you~

[@gamersunite7968]

My girlfriends craptop was having battery issues. This was a refurbished 2 in 1 from Dell. I work in IT as a data center technician so I started troubleshooting. She had a Dell charger but the inverter was bulged and heating up. At the time, I couldn’t really do much so I bought a cheap charger. Worked for about 2-3 months. Started to bulge and heat again. Bought another new charger from Dell and it worked intermittently. Started to suspect the battery itself, but it was fine. She then wouldn’t let me work on it out of fear of break for a while. I then convinced her to let me try one more thing, replace the charger port. 5 minute fix once I got the part and looked over documents from Dell. Works perfect now. Learn how to fix your problems yourself. If you’re not comfortable, learn how to do it before or after that, find someone who can help. Thank

[@Norm475]

I can fix most things on a computer, desktops are easy, laptops are a little harder. With U tube videos one can fix most things.

[@dennymambo]

Met a girl that didn't know how to use a microwave once. She managed to explode a coffee attempting to reheat it. She cried when we couldn't stop laughing. Turns out she had a rich daddy that hired a maid her entire childhood. Good on her for going out on her own to learn how to adult though. That takes guts.

[@carljacobs1837]

My brother had a microwave that would explode mugs if you didn't pay attention to it. The timer was broke. Guy made great money, just refused to buy a new one.

[@callmeenzy5715]

@@carljacobs1837 i understand why he didnt buy a new one.

[@hauntedshadowslegacy2826]

Aww, well I hope you helped her learn afterward.

[@carljacobs1837]

I still tell myself "Lefty loosey Righty tighty" when tightening bolts.

[@blixten2928]

THat's actually excellent. I'll be adopting that, thank you!! Better than "counter-clockwise makes things come apart", which scarcely runs trippingly off the tongue.

[@blumoogle2901]

That's not always true, in fact it's only true about 60% of the time, in my experience. It's not even always consistent across the same piece of flat-pack furniture.

[@MysticMae21]

Same. Though I say it righty tighty lefty loosey XD

[@Roadent1241]

I also do that when I fill up the car. Thanks Jeff Dunham XD

[@tejaswoman]

I learned that from _Gilmore Girls_ in my thirties.

[@lluma8153]

If I had a nickel for every time someone put pasta in a pot to cook without water and ended up on Reddit, I’d only have 2 nickels but it’s weird that it happened twice.

[@skyshadow6617]

Captain America: I understood that reference.

[@daviddavid5880]

Had a gf back when that put ramen in cold water and turned on the burner. Couldn't cook a damn thing.

[@specialopsdave]

@@daviddavid5880 but that method totally works fine, just not the best

[@kswck]

@@daviddavid5880 I had an 81 year old volunteer in a soup kitchen that would put pasta in cold water and then wait around for 'someone' to tell her to turn it on.

[@hauntedshadowslegacy2826]

@@daviddavid5880 It's possible she has a condition that I have called Raynaud's Phenomenon. I have to be extra careful around hot and cold things, because my hands are sensitive to big temperature changes due to Raynaud's. For a good while growing up, I would put the noodles in cool water so I didn't risk burning myself (easier for me to burn at lower temperatures). Nowadays, I use something with a handle to put noodles in boiling water; shaped noodles like penne or farfalle get dropped in with a slotted spoon or mini strainer, ramen wafers go in with tongs (for spaghetti, I just move quickly enough to get my hands back out of the steam).

[@Neithie]

When I first moved out I didn't know how to use a washing machine. Not because I'd never done laundry... but because I'd grown up fairly poor and our washing machine was a very old model. The sharehouse I moved into had a brand spanking fancy new washing machine. It kind of scared the crap out of me and I suddenly understood how my elderly mum could feel so overwhelmed and confused by modern tech. The 'mum' of that house also taught me things like using special laundry bags for bras and undies and how to really soak blood out of clothing... so I owed her a lot for all those lessons lol Meanwhile my elderly mum's ancient washing machine is still chugging along happily with the occasional maintenance from a friend of hers. Crazy thing must be decades old by now.

[@parisgreen4600]

Also (I learned way into adulthood) there are two kinds of plungers - the regular, flat-bottomed kind for sinks and bathtubs, and another kind with a flange to fit in toilets. When you're setting up housekeeping, it's handy to just go to the hardware store and get both. They're pretty cheap.

[@WASDLeftClick]

TIL. Just thought it was an irrelevant design choice, and nobody’s ever mentioned it before around me.

[@lyokianhitchhiker]

TIL using a plunger in a sink is a thing.

[@callmeenzy5715]

@@WASDLeftClick they probably don't even know

[@catherinekilgour2563]

I don't own either and can't remember the last time I ever saw anyone use one.

[@hauntedshadowslegacy2826]

@@catherinekilgour2563 Lucky you, but might wanna grab a set just in case. Yeah, you might never need it, but it's better to have it and not need it than to need and not have.

[@stasiacollins8285]

I'm almost 50. A few months ago, my best friend and I took a road trip to a beach located about 5 hours away. We wanted to baby our own cars, so we rented a jeep. She was the driver when the gasoline light came on. She pulled over, drove up to a gas station, and said "I don't know which side of this car has the gas tank...." I actually had to tell this woman, my age, that on the gas gauge itself there is a tiny arrow that points either left or right, indicating which side of the vehicle has the gas tank. She was absolutely floored. She is still talking about it and testing the theory in every car she gets in. All I can do is laugh and tell her it's a good thing she's cute.

[@Norm475]

Yea, but when the beauty fades and she gains fifty pounds then she is just a pain in the ass.

[@Phoebe5448]

As someone brought up by an alcoholic irresponsible single mother who does not now how to work a TV through sheer blind incompetence and complete unwillingness to learn, I'm so glad I managed to teach myself. I taught myself to cook, my nan taught me how to tell the time. My mum just has an utter refusal to learn anything no matter how many times you tell her.

[@beagleissleeping5359]

I had to try and cash register train a 20+ person who didn't know how to count change. She didn't understand the coinage AT ALL. In spite of the register telling you the amount to give back, I had to tell her each and every time how many quarters, dimes, nickels, pennies. The horrific part? They sent me home only an hour or so later and left her to the mercy of the 3 most impatient employees we have. I was honestly surprised to learn she hadn't quit that night.

[@okidoll]

"What time is it?" There is a clock right next to you. "Yeah, but I don't know how to read a clock " Are you serious? You can't tell time? "Would you just tell me the damn time." There's a clock right there. Me: pretending to be invisible while listening to this interaction.

[@francescasanna1347]

Not being able to read the clock can happen to people with some forms of dyslexia. My brother is 16 and has difficulty in reading the hour on an analogical clock or saying the months ofbthe year in order. It's not like he doesn't try, it's just harder for him. He has a digital clock tho so that fixes a lot

[@assassintwinat8]

I'm not scared that I heard that someone didn't know that pasta had to be cooked in water I'm scared that I heard it more than once

[@sarahpanther]

16:40 I moved to a new town when I started uni, and to be honest I relied very heavily on Pokemon Go to get around for a while 😂 Since the game uses real-world locations, it's got a basic map built into it. I learned to navigate the city, because a lot of the major places (e.g. shops, post office, parks, the uni itself, etc...) were also the sites of Pokestops and Pokemon gyms. And the game's map showed me exactly how to get there. Eventually I was able to find my way around without the app. But in the beginning, the game was a huge help 😂

[@Rakushi_Snea]

Omfg that's brilliant!

[@drunkenrobot7061]

With the GPS one: I have a terrible sense of direction. As in, if you tell me "go to this road and turn right" it's much more likely I'll completely miss it. I've instead learned to identify certain marks around important locations and along the routes to get there (guided by GPS) so that I can make the trip myself without having to use GPS. Once I've made a trip enough times, I'll recognize roads, buildings, trees, etc. and know "oh, my turn is coming up". Otherwise, I have to use GPS to go anywhere outside of my limited knowledge.

[@prezbige]

4:10 loved the Facebook story. Adult man that can't read a clock, mocks others who can't read cursive writing, someone mocks him with a clock picture. The adult snowflake blocks him lol

[@Famous_Athlete_Hashimoto]

I worked at an elementary school for 3 years in the early 2010's. I can confirm that most kids can't tell time on an analog clock. They also can't read/ write cursive nor do they know Roman numerals. These are somewhat understandable because they're just not taught anymore in modern curricula. However, what really baffled me was that the vast majority of them, like over 85%, couldn't ride bikes. I don't mean little kids, I mean 11-13 year old kids who had never ridden a bicycle. When I was growing up, it was a given that you learned how to ride a bike as a child; and the day you managed to do so without training wheels was a life milestone. These days, helicopter parents shelter their kids so badly that too many Gen Z kids can't do the most basic athletic activities that most of us take for granted like biking and swimming. Truly sad, honestly

[@ChronicRen]

About the mother in law who doesn’t know left/right or north/west/east/south, I don’t think that’s stupidity. I think that’s dyslexia. I have dyslexia and I can never get my left to right correct either and I can only get east/west because I just remember I live on the west coast of America and can visualize that west is in the direction of the west coast AKA left. I also have dyscalculia. It really sucks when you just don’t get something like directions or math or some reading and you just feel so stupid.

[@samanthavanscoder9536]

I guess the L on the left hand doesn't work when you can't remember what way an L is suppose to face.

[@FerreTrip]

Yeah, I remember east vs west because "west (kinda) rhymes with left". I'm not dyslexic, but being on the autism spectrum, I do still have my fair share of "I feel so stupid" moments.

[@tejaswoman]

In driving, my cousin asks, "my way (toward driver, i.e., left) or your way (right)?" You get used to it.

[@ChronicRen]

@@samanthavanscoder9536 indeed it doesn’t

[@tangentyoung5633]

Dyslexia is only about issues with reading. Your description is not 100% about that. You already know about having some level of dyslexia and also of dyscalculia. What you may also have, based on your description, are spatial relation disorder and dyspraxia. I am not qualified to diagnose. If anyone would be interested in knowing, I have both of the latter and neither of the former.

[@Benjamin1986980]

As for reading a map and knowing how to drive, when she was three, my daughter not only knew the way home from daycare, but she would complain at me for going the wrong way on Fridays if I didn't stop and pick up flowers for her mother. A literal toddler understands driving and directions better than a bunch of these people

[@cateclism316]

I was in a church where everyone was expected to volunteer for a building project. I had practically no "DIY" skills. Whenever I made a mistake the "foreman" would point it out and say, "we have a problem, guys!"

[@darxhart1646]

Had a (very intelligent, college educated) pregnant friend tell me her doctors said if she took a hot bath she’d cook the baby. I was flabbergasted- asked another friend. Apparently that’s not quite the case- you shouldn’t be in a hot tub, but a warm bath is fine. The risk is with a too hot bath affecting blood flow to the baby. But man was I shocked when she said ‘it’ll cook the baby’

[@mousepariah3884]

Mine is "The day my dad realized he had failed to teach." (step dad too) My first car was an 86 doge aries previously owned by my great grandfather and stored by my dad, I received it in 2006. I had never been taught anything about cars despite my dad being a 'car guy'. Thing was I had at least learned some basics by observation ie putting gas in the car, even how to change a tire, and how to jumpstart the battery (Got REAL good at that one over the years). Well out of no where while driving the car suddenly loses power steering and just dies on the freeway, THankfully I was near an exit and able to park up if not totally safely then at least the LEAST dangerously I could. Call dad. He asks the usual if I was safe, where I was, did it have gas, and if I checked the oil . I answer in the affirmative. Gas wise I was on the last quarter tank and thought maybe it had hit fumes sooner than expected. Turns out it was the oil. When I was told to check the oil I had always done what I had seen done. Pull out the dipstick and make sure there was fluid on it. No one ever explained the fluid should be gold not black or that it needed to hit the upper hole in the stick not just the lower one.... so that's how I got my first proper walk through of car care 6mos after getting my first car.

[@Norm475]

I got divorced when I was about 44 and most of the girls I was dating were around thirty. I did not seek out girls that young but that was the pool of girls I usually met when I went out. Anyway, I was making chicken soup, so I was boiling the chicken and when I removed the chicken from the pot to debone and cut it up the girl took the pot of broth and threw it down the drain not knowing that was the stock for soup. Another time, another girl, I was making pancakes from scratch, I asked her to get some butter from the frig for the batter. She takes a chunk of cold butter and tries to blend it into the batter. Well, I guess I never really dated them for their culinary skills.

[@rustyshackleford9381]

I'm 35 and I will admit that I'm one of the people that has become WAY too reliant on GPS turn-by-turn directions!

[@deeprollingriver5820]

People who cannot swim. This is a life saving skill

[@vulpes7079]

Many people out there will never need to swim, and will never want to. I, for an example, live in a place where the closest swimmable river is about an hour's drive away, and there are no swimmable lakes for at least three hours. If I had never learned how to swim, I would never have had a problem with it, save for the possibility of some asshole throwing me into a pool, in which case I believe hatred alone would pull me out of the water

[@waleedkhalid7486]

I’m seeing some interesting patterns. People do t know how to cook pasta. Girlfriends thinking their boyfriends think they’re dumb. And generally not knowing how to take care of one’s hygiene. Also telling time- this one bugs me the most, but makes sense since almost no one uses analog clocks anymore. Anything involving developmental impaired people is disingenuous- I have low expectations for them, but will often help them as much as I can.

[@thefoxygamer1536]

My Aunt never learned how to drive. She always relied on her husband. But a few months ago he unexpectedly passed away from a stroke and she lives alone and my mom had to help her get groceries. She's learning how to drive now. She failed her test 3 times but at least she is learning.

[@evilarchconservative2952]

Ironically your comment made me wonder if my Great-Aunt knew how to drive. (Died at 93 around 1983.) Her younger Husband always drove.

[@kushina382]

Basic hygiene, when I was in the navy I lost track of how bad some people smell because they don't shower

[@michaelmclachlan1650]

I watched a Royal Marines documentary, they actually have a practical demonstration on how to wash using a shower. They also sleep naked by regulation, so you WILL be clean.

[@Jillian_Alex]

My cousin asked me “What do I do when my mom starts a church in the basement?” I told her “Just don’t drink the cool aide.” She looked at me like I was crazy and asked “What does that mean?” I just pulled up an article on Jonestown and had the girl read it.

[@Roadent1241]

I mean that's not obvious XD It's like people expecting to know the Underground attacks here a decade or so ago.

[@darkexcalibur87]

Ah, the basement church. Those usually go well lmao.

[@Phoebe5448]

Dark.

[@caitb7089]

My brother is 19 and recently learnt how to use a microwave. So proud.

[@Kat-tr2ig]

I teach ESL abroad and noticed that almost all of my students seriously struggled with learning how to tell the time in English. Then one day it dawned on me that I was showing them how to do so on an analog clock, and they didn't know how to read it. I switched to a digital clock and had no more problems since. Apparently no one under the age of 40 can read a clock.

[@MysticMae21]

Born in 96 and can read one. Will definitely take me a moment or 2, as they aren't common to see anymore, but I can at least read one if I need to.

[@Roadent1241]

Yes they can XD I think it's more 20 or under now.

[@redram5150]

My friend had a 1998 Hyundai Accent that he somehow ran without oil. He didn't do his own oil changes and knew little about cars, so likely a discount lube place failed at their only job. When I got into his car, the cam wrapping on the lifters was bad. When I pulled the dipstick there wasn't a drop of oil on it and it was blue from heat. I always have oil on hand and filled the engine up. There were no leaks and it didn't burn oil afterward either. He had his oil changed several weeks before that, and it possibly had no oil whatsoever during that time... and this was his daily driver. On the other hand, my former FIL believes oil never needs to be changed ever, and anyone who changes their oil is buying into a scam perpetuated by big oil. He's also beat every car he ever owned unmercifully. Bought a car brand new in 2000, and within two years every panel was covered in dents and scratches. The interior looked as if it doubled as a chicken coop. Eventually, he had to start putting new oil in it after the rear main seal gave out. A quart every week or so. Ironically, he was forced against his will to perform the maintenance he's so vehemently opposed. A sort of nonviolent protest by his vehicle

[@arsenalxa4421]

The amount of people who don't have jumper cables, car jacks, or tire irons, it even basic wrenches or other hand tools is astounding to me. My uncle was a master mechanic and hammered into my head what I needed, mostly because I learned on older engines. Now everything has computers.

[@evilarchconservative2952]

Knowing Maps vs GPS. Note my Father taught me this in less than five minutes before I learned to drive. (Which was in 1980.) Late 90's and I was driving alone to visit my Grandparents in Florida. I had stopped at a Rest Stop. After using the bathroom and getting something from the vending machine, I sat down to relax for a few minutes. Got into a conversation with another Lady about my age, early 30's. She was traveling with her Father. (He was doing all the driving.) Anyway when she realized I was driving alone She was SHOCKED and couldn't understand how I could do this. I explained travel was simple. Odd number highways/interstates run North and South, even go East/West, and 3 digits indicate a bypass around a city. Honestly wonder 35 years later if she understands these 3 simple travel rules..

[@tzisorey]

In all fairness to Mally, I don't know how to plunge a toilet either - mostly because I've never *clogged* a toilet. I do think I can probably figure out the basics of it, should I ever need to, though.

[@staceyhunt6769]

I've got 3 kids and have only used a manual, push-power lawn mower... We're going to have some weird stuff to learn some time. But my 2 and 3yr olds 100% know how to wash dishes, clean tables, wash veggies/fruit, do laundry, change nappies, use a knife and prep a meal. So they can at least survive. 🤷‍♀️

[@emilyb2031]

Had to show a bloke in his late 20s how to address a letter and post it, this was over 10 yrs ago I was a teenager at the time. He said he had never sent a letter in his life and thanked me for showing him.

[@vulpes7079]

Not unexpected at all. I've never even seen a letter written by another person that wasn't trash mail

[@nemo227]

When we become competent in many daily chores it helps us become self-confident.

[@Mephitinae]

1:35 "I would have had to live of off chocolate chip cookies, brownies, and takeout through my 20s" Most millennials lived their college years on junk food. Every time I'm at the supermarket, I see people of all ages buying nothing but snacks, sweets, and microwaveables.

[@Neithie]

I've had roomies who don't know how to do any kind of simple handsewing, who can't read roman numerals or clocks in general, but they've known other things that I had no idea about. Guess that's part of it ...we all end up figuring this shit out by coping each other.

[@karlzaunbrecher8241]

I had to learn the basics of cooking and cleaning from scratch as an adult because when I was growing up both my parents actively discouraged me from learning to do things that were "women's work". It lead to some embarrassing moments because I didn't know how to do things every adult should know.

[@beth8775]

At least you took the responsibility of learning.

[@cat-jv2yt]

honestly a lot of these are definitely just symptoms of autism, adhd, etc before getting so angry at someone for not understanding something you see as very normal, think perhaps there’s a reason why :) it’s always good to have a small laugh but never drag it out and make them feel really stupid and bad about themselves.

[@Duke00x]

25 year old friend called us up to ask how to make tuna fish. It was more confirming then not fully not knowing. He knew you open the can and mayo was involved but was fuzzy on the details like draining the tuna and he thought mayo was added but wasn't sure. I also think he called us for how to make mac & cheese. He still lived with his parents (even though he had a at the times 7 year old daughter. Who later when the baby momma couldn't take care of her was raised by his younger sister) and his mom did most things for him. There was also the time I had an argument with my two roommates one of which is normally relatively intelligent that the sun was a star. The amount of times I heard (from the less intelligent one) "no the suns is a sun" in that argument (or the fact that she looked at me like I was stupid when I told her that the sun was a star) really frustrated me. But I expected it from her (she was a little on the slow side). But when he agreed with her I was floored. The funny thing is out of the three of us I am the only one that didn't graduate high school (Though I was on track to graduate at 15 before life got in the way). Though I did find out information later that likely explained her graduating (other then the state I live in having very low standards in someplace when it comes to education). Apparently often times (pretty much all the time) her mother would just do her homework and and take home course work for her.

[@billyoung8118]

Had a long-time friend over a while back. Our kitchen sink has one of those soap dispensers that is brushed nickel, like the faucet. It is mounted in a separate hole through the sink. It was empty, so I pulled the push-down thing out to pour in some more liquid soap. This friend looked at me, laughed her ass off, and said she never knew the push-down thing came off. She always went underneath her sink to unscrew the reservoir out and refill it that way.

[@jillcarr-hilton7308]

In your friends defence, not all soap dispensers have removable tops and must have the container removed to refill.

[@crowincidence280]

10:43 I got taught that you should use your blinker when backing out of a spot, so people know in which direction you back out. So it's not entirely weird

[@biancamolineux8595]

Omg the making the bed thing, my ex was 18 and I had to teach him how to make the bed. ‘I was like how do you not know this’ he said ‘my mums always done that for me’. Oh as well as she made him lunch for work when he was 21. I should’ve seen the flags sooner 🤦🏼‍♀️

[@LilySaintSin]

Yeah... I tell my own mum you can't put metal in the microwave.

[@plutoniumjunior]

In our early twenties, my fellow student asked the rest of the class how to peel an orange because he did not know. His mom had always done it for him and put the slices in his lunch box.

[@bobthompson4319]

4:30 you can't put foil in the microwave BUT you CAN put some metal things in the microwave. Want proof? The microwave manufacturers put a metal rack that holds up the food on the middle of the microwave so food gets more evenly warmed up.

[@michaelmclachlan1650]

I worked with a young woman some years back who was driving back from a dance party in the early hours of the morning in her mothers car and punctured a rear tyre. With the assistance of the young man with her they fitted the spare and carried on - OK so far. When talking to her the next day we found out she'd left the flat tyre AND WHEEL behind because she believed that with a new tyre you were also given a new wheel! It took four of us to convince her that she'd need to pay for the new factory alloy wheel. And that if it was only a puncture the tyre might have been repaired.

[@spritemon98]

Yikes....

[@michaelmclachlan1650]

@@spritemon98 Otherwise she was a very intelligent young woman. Just a gap in 'real world' knowledge. Another time a senior manager asked me to make a sandwich board sign for a temporary office relocation. No problem, bought the parts at lunchtime and made it that evening. Less senior manager asked me how I knew what to do...... How could you not? It was very obvious to me.

[@LadyNikitaShark]

My parents taught me basics dishes before I left home. In college I felt like Gordon Ramsey bc most people didn't even new how to make simple rice. Had to teach most of my housemates how to do basic chores like washing dishes and clean the floors...

[@Feast_]

I feel the first story My grandma always did things for me out of love, but she never understood boundaries. I grew complacent, and the worst part is nobody else really thought this was a problem and never helped me out I'm 29 and I'm struggling extremely hard on adulting

[@kyarimaresuki]

I have a learning disability and anxiety, so several of my first jobs went poorly, and I haven't worked with people much for almost twenty years. Trying to find a new job outside of my area of expertise is tough. When writing a resume, I wish I could just type all of the random things I CAN do, though. Some of this is thanks to my parents, who were very poor during their childhood and some of mine. Dad was an especially good example as he tended to do most maintenance on his own, and even made a number of things to make our houses nicer. When my husband and I bought our first house, I had a hard time getting steady work and to make myself useful, help with expenses and avoid calling others, I learned a lot. So between my parents, hobbies, and just life I can doing an unusual variety of things. This includes sewing, cooking, yard work, plumbing (even sweating pipes!), minor appliance repair, some basic carpentry, and much more. Now that Dad is gone, I can use these skills to help Mom and others in my family, too. Please teach your children at least the basics, learn them if you don't, and please set an example.

[@leaflet1686]

"Inability to read a map" Me in a new work place: Ok, how do I get home... I know the main streets name, so i ask the direction fo rit, ok that way! Let's look around... Ah I think I know these houses! That is where a bus station is and the station has a bus that drives me home directly! Happened yesterday :3

[@spritemon98]

2:45 that perfectly describes my grandparents since they think calling a plumber is less expensive then going down to the store and buying a plunger which they say "dont even work"

[@meghankolin1952]

In my freshman year of college, I had to teach a girl in my dorm how to boil water. I also had a friend the same year who had to have three separate people explain to him how to do his laundry, and one of us still had to come help him after he broke one of the machines in the laundry room. Hoping both of them are doing better now, but I also feel a little bit better about my own abilities to live on my own...

[@CI369]

The light/dark laundry thing depends on how old your clothes are nowadays. Quality (and retention) of most dyes have improved to where we don't have to worry about color bleeding too much, and detergents have gotten better as well, but it's still a good rule of thumb to go by. I still wash my whites separately, as well as jeans since those will wear down anything else they're washed with (I know jean companies say you shouldn't wash them and let them "air out", but screw that).

[@FerreTrip]

Don't wash jeans? Really? What about when they're caked with schmutz from day-to-day life like condiments, dust, crumbs, etc.? Screw that, indeed. Never thought to wash them separately from other things, though.

[@bigawesomewatermelon9511]

You should wash jeans, but not often. Jeez.

[@ericb3157]

i've read this on SOOOOO many tech-support related websites: "my modem isn't working!" "is it plugged in?" "it shouldn't have to be plugged in, it's WIRELESS!" AND some of them didn't know HOW TO PLUG ANYTHING IN! seriously, not knowing how to stick a plug into an outlet?! AND i've read about people trying to use a computer mouse by dragging it ON THE SCREEN or even ON THE KEYBOARD!

[@lowyieldforeffort6996]

I've got to stay humble here since I entered adulthood not knowing a lot of "basic stuff". Still, it amazes me how many people lack the ability to replace buttons. I'm not just talking about college kids here. Since I started working at a drycleaners, many people have asked me to sew on buttons. At first, I thought it was about convenience, but then I saw some buttons that customers had tried to sew on themselves. Yikes! Even my workmate (who is older than me and an all-around savvy homemaker) isn't looking forward to replacing all those buttons when I leave. I don't get it. Buttons are easy for me. Maybe it's just my hands? Pillow seams are what's hard 😬

[@sonianevermind1232]

Geez, I have so many. One thing that springs to mind is I had a hard time telling the difference between right and left until tenth grade, when (and I'm not kidding) a Poptropica quiz asked me if I was right or left handed, and showed me the corresponding hands in position. So whenever I needed to tell the difference between right and left, I'd just remember that picture and I'd know which is which. Luckily I rarely have to do that now.

[@jaymelang9610]

Our boys are adults now, and I think we've done a good job of teaching them life-living skills. The one thing we have really reinforced is being polite, always saying please and thank you, ma'am and sir, even if everyone around is being rude and idiotic. If you don't know what you're doing and need help, you will always have better reception, and a better chance of obtaining assistance, if you are polite.

[@tegantalks9612]

My son is 4 and already knows how to work my coffee machine. He also knows his way around the TV and PlayStation and loves playing boarderlands with my boyfriend and watching Breath of the Wild play throughs on KZbin

[@OnixMint]

Why does he need to know how to work the coffee machine? Four year olds shouldn’t be drinking coffee

[@tegantalks9612]

@@OnixMint he watches me and my boyfriend do it all the time. Children are very observant. We never actually taught him, we just found out he knew how to use it when he brought me coffee one morning.

[@jogee2382]

I was at a friend's new house she had moved in to with her then fiance. She made me a cup of tea and when I took a sip it was luke warm and didn't taste great but me being polite (I was also a lot younger back then) I didn't say anything and just thought maybe (as it was also pale in colour) she had put too much milk in it, ok no biggie I thought. I then saw her put the kettle on for another round of tea and clocked that she took it off and poured the water in to the cups before the water in the kettle had even started to bubble! I kindly told her that she needed to let the water fully boil and the kettle would turn it's self off once done and she giggled all "ooh who knew??". She would also live on ready meals when her then fiance went away for work as he did the cooking and she didn't know how to cook (she didn't want to learn either) or when she did cook a meal she would give herself food poisoning. Keep in mind we were all mid 20s at the time and I lived at home but I still knew how to keep a house and how to cook.

[@Rakushi_Snea]

11:40 Bought a 2009 Kia Rio Lx under 50k in 2011. Runs fine but burns out a couple of spark plugs within 9 months of each other in 2012-2013. Take it in for that and a belt replacement. The mechanic gets it up, works on it for a few minutes, and comes back into waiting room. *Him* : Ma'am, you said you've had this car 3 years? (I nod.) When's the last time you had your oil changed? *Me* : 😀 That's a fabulous question! *Him* : ...... 👀 *Me* : 🙂 *Desk Mechanic* : 👀 *Mechanic* : 😶😐😑 So I'm gonna change that and we're ALL GONNA PRAY the sludge comes out. *Me* : 😀👍🏾 Awesomesauce! I have realized my mistake and I'll be back next month for another one. And then I went back on-the-dot for 6 months after that. I still have calendar alarms for every 2 months because she doesn't take her full volume of oil to this day. Glad to know I can attribute credit to Kia for my engine not blowing up. Would've been great if it'd come with a damned engine fan and thermostat, though. 🤦🏾‍♀️😤

[@UncleMikeDrop]

I had a roommate who didn't know that you need to put a new trash bag in the bin after you take out the trash. When he(rarely btw) took out the trash, he would literally start putting trash in the bin with no bag. He also didn't know that you can't just microwave raw sausage.

[@andiward7068]

Your left hand's index finger and thumb form an L when slightly spread... it's literally the "L" hand.

[@spooniesarah]

I'd think eventually even a directionally challenged person would figure that out. Source: im somewhat directionally challenged, get my left and right mixed up on occasion.

[@MysticMae21]

That's how I figure it out. Or just think "ok, I'm right handed. Which is my writing hand again. That's to the right."

[@jillcarr-hilton7308]

I have a large scar on my left hand, that’s how I remember 😆

[@flibbertygibbet]

10:08 TBF people with ADHD often are not able to deal with left and right. I've never been able to do left and right and was finally diagnosed with ADHD as an adult after my daughter was diagnosed with it. My ex's sister who I still love to bits is the same but she has no sense of direction and can't find her car even if we have walked straight down a sidewalk away from it for a couple minutes. I'm usually pretty good with compass directions and maps so I am the pathfinder for her. I just have a bit of trouble with left and right. I can hear my Taekwondo teacher sighing and saying again left foot Flibbertygibbet, no your other left.

[@JennyEverywhere]

A high school friend asked me if I could let another mutual friend stay with me for a week or so until he could find a place. I talked it over with my spouse and we agreed he could stay, but ONLY for a week. He had to be out again after that, and he was NOT getting a key. He had to go in one of the entrances and use the buzzer board to call up and ask us to let him in. The second day, he was out doing something enigmatic, and when I came home, he was in the apartment watching TV. I asked him how he got in without a key. He climbed the back of the building where the balconies were, 3 storeys, until he got to our balcony. The sliding door wasn't locked because it was the third floor. He let himself in that way. I told him not to climb the building again, because he'd get the police called on him by one of the neighbors. He said he wouldn't climb the back of the building. A day later, I got a complaint from the property manager that he'd been caught climbing the front atrium -- the front door had a buzzer board, but the second floor was basically an interior balcony that overlooked the front foyer. So he climbed the door hinges to reach that balcony and then he could get to the elevator. He didn't have any idea how to get into the actual apartment, so he'd sat down in the hallway to wait until someone called the property manager about him. Before the week was out, we had to kick him out. In addition to his creative ways to enter the building, he had: 1. Tried to cook himself some rice on our stove. He put a cup of uncooked rice in a ceramic serving bowl, then put the bowl on the stove. He only put about a quarter cup of water in the rice. The bowl exploded. He scraped up what he could into another bowl and ate it. 2. He tried to cook himself a frozen pizza. He put it in the oven, and filled the place with smoke. He had set the temperature to max, and had apparently not unwrapped the pizza first. He turned off the oven, opened the balcony door to let out the smoke, then ate the pizza. With the baked-on plastic wrapper and cardboard disc still on the pizza. 3. He had no clue how to wash clothes, and seemed not to even comprehend that he had to. He could have used the building's washer and dryer. They didn't even require coins to operate them. But he just kept clothes in a Hefty bag and would swap them out onto his body and back into the bag randomly. He smelled like a dyspeptic hobo. 4. For the course of his stay in our place, I still have no idea if he bathed even once. We finally had to tell him to go away when he forgot not to climb the back of the building and got caught on someone's balcony. He'd forgotten which one was ours. We found out that he was staying in the woods in a local forest preserve. He was remarkably adept at turning cheap garbage bags into makeshift tents and sleeping equipment, apparently. He finally joined the Army (we think the cops had arrested him for vagrancy and the judge offered him jail or the military, and he took the military), in which he lasted most of Basic Training before he was thrown out on a psychiatric discharge. I think he talked his mother into letting him come home after that.

[@randomskills5231]

The fact that people like that can vote, and their vote has the same value as mine...

[@spritemon98]

I feel kinda bad for the guy but climbing three stories is insane and dangerous

[@randomskills5231]

@@spritemon98 I understand everyone gets in bad situations in life (lose job, accident, bankrupt, etc). I work with an at-risk population. However, you gotta work with the rules you're given when people are helping you out like that. And like you said, I empathize too but the dude was being dumb and reckless

[@spritemon98]

@@randomskills5231 yeah he was reckless

[@Bri_P_768]

My aunt, who is currently living with us but before a couple years ago had been out on her own with various roommates, thought she could make her soup concoction on the eye of our stove in a Pyrex bowl. It broke and spilled her soup everywhere including the inside of the oven door glass. My mom couldn't believe she didn't know you couldn't do that. She is getting close to 50.

[@CrowFeatherQuill]

Asked a friend in college to measure a frame for a painting in art class. She said she didnt know how to use the a ruler. I Laughed thinking it was a joke. She felt bad, I was shocked. Soon after I realize she didn't just not know how to use a ruler, she didn't know how to measure at all. She had no concept of the metric or imperial system.

[@andrewmize823]

I went to run some errands on a pleasant fall day and came home that evening to find the windows open with the heat running full-blast, my roommate complaining that the house wasn't warming up. Apparently, there are grown-ass men in this world who can walk right past a window sucking cold air and not have it occur to them to shut it.

[@Cyberdog22]

10:13 I picture this guy as a caveman. Makes sense that way.

[@corsaircarl9582]

The number of people who literally told me they've never seen raw chicken or beef before astounds me.

[@Norm475]

I bet the number that never cut the head off a chicken, put it in a pot of boiling water for a few minutes to pluck the feathers, hold it over an open flame to burn off the hair, and then gut and wash it was even less.

[@corsaircarl9582]

@@Norm475 I never did that but I know what raw chicken is. Chances are these people grew up thinking 'raw chicken' came in patty form.

[@TanakaMatsumoto]

I can't help but feel like pasta packages should mention that it's dehydrated pasta so that people will recognize that water is needed, but knowing that people will just probably try to put pasta in a humidifier or something equally stupid there's no point in doing that.

[@kireta21]

About 2 years ago my mother called me at work, telling me she needs help. She's been driving her new car on fuel reserve for few days, and she may be running out of fuel anytime soon, because warning sound changed to more annoying version. Me thinking "is she serious?" tell, her car drives on gasoline (first logical thought: "she doesn't know if she bought diesel or gas."), and there's small fuel station by entrance of co-op farm just 2 km from our home (my second thought "she's doesn't know if she can reach station before running dry"). No, neither assumption was correct. She didn't know how to fuel a car. She never did. It was always either her father, my father, or me fueling her car. She's 63, driving since she was 18.

[@Sphere377]

I have no idea how to write a cheque. But then again the last time I saw a personal cheque being written was my grandma in 1995…

[@chaotic_intent]

I stopped using phone gps a while back since (not always but more times than I liked) it would occasionally take me to a wrong location even after verifying address. Now I'll punch it into the gps and just look at all the routes, then pick the one I want and just memorize the main roads/express ways I had to take. Fortunately here in Miami all the roads are number based and not name based so as long as you know if you're going N, S, E, or W its super easy to get anywhere by seeing if numbers are going up or down.

[@xadirius]

TIL about Ctrl+Shift+T, I honestly have no idea how I've missed this for so long.

[@adammetzger4182]

That guy who couldn't read a clock might have dyscalculia.

[@tejaswoman]

Didn't know how to mop at age 20. Took a friend's place for a semester living at the back of an elderly woman's place to run errands for her, drive her to church, and do light housework. Mom still teases me about the Saturday I called her long-distance to ask her to tell me how to mop. ETA: my excuse is that my entire life, we had a twice-a-week cleaning lady, plus my older brother dealt with stress by cleaning. I had never paid attention while anybody mopped, and it mostly happened while I wasn't around anyway.

[@cottoncandyaddict]

I’m almost 33 and the only thing I know about lawn mowers is that they’re loud._.

[@janoahlee7499]

That “I can’t read” thing can really backfire. We were told by our trainer when we learned the city bus that to never assume people can read time/signage or currency. He got annoyed by a man asking him what bus/time he needed to get on. So he told him to just read it. The man couldn’t read. He never said what part he couldn’t read or if he could read English but he never felt like an asshole as much as he did then.

[@bobbobbington6245]

My friend works in a hospital in Cali (forgot what the exact name of his job but he's trying to be a registered nurse) and the BP machine broke down. The only thing they had was the BP pump with stethoscope. Apparently, only him and another colleague knew how to use the manual pump because everyone else only knew how to use the BP machine.

[@jennzifur]

Do you mean he is a. Patient Care Nursing Assistant (PCNA) or Nursing Assistant? As a nurse, you have to verify blood pressures all the time since those machines are not the most reliable, so, sadly, he and his comrade are above the curve. PCNAs in my state used to get tested out for manual BPs annually so they are lucky ducks.

[@bobbobbington6245]

@@jennzifur He gets absolutely pissed about his co-workers all the time. When we would play together, he'd ramble about some things. One time, his coworkers refused to help a patient suffering from some pains on his body because he was on lunch break.

[@MW-on1ft]

When I was a Dental Hygienist I used to take BP's manually on every patient and still take an accurate manual reading. When I go to the doctor and insist on a manual reading as more often than not the electronic machine literally wants to squeeze my arm off! To the point of pinching my nerves numb and beyond numb. Which of course raises my blood pressure even more and I tell the techs to get the damn thing off me and get a manual cuff!

[@Archnor]

I get an oil change every year as part of my regular MOT & Service, I'm glad its a legal requirement for owning a car. Also I can write a cheque, but we don't really use them here in the UK.

[@cortezdelanoche7877]

I have no idea how to write a check. i'm 30. Never had to. It would be like saying someone didn't know how to "rewind a VCR" some things are just out of date. I live with my wife and we've never had to write a check.

[@PeculierOne]

I honestly dont like how some schools "so Ive heard" replacing analog clocks with digital ones because students cant read the analog ones. I never face palmed so hard reading an article. I saw it on FB so likely not true. But still. Reading a clock is a VERY basic skill.

[@wintergray1221]

They taught clock reading at my elementary in 3rd grade. Meanwhile my mom taught me when I was 3.

[@Phoebe5448]

I learnt clock reading at school, but my nan helped a lot. I was about 7 when I finally got it. Now I can tell the time no problem.

[@larry01902]

One of my bosses can not read an analog clock. All she saw were digital clocks growing up.

[@samanthavanscoder9536]

I can't imagine having sex with someone who can't do laundry.

[@johnvanegmond1812]

Some of these examples simply highlight cultural differences inside of a culture. I am an American of Dutch ancestry. I have yet to meet a person who knows that "When crock potted raccoon is finished cooking, let it cool and THEN remove the tallow from the surface of the broth. Easier to handle, and less broth will be in the tallow, resulting in less spitting and popping when frying potatoes, onions or mushrooms."

[@Norm475]

Ate a lot of raccoon, porcupine, muskrat, deer, bear, beaver (the four-legged kind with the big tail), and many different kinds of fish and birds. My dad was an avid hunter and trapper.

[@johnvanegmond1812]

@@Norm475 Awesome. You have access to a great diversity of game. I learned the "utilize your resources" from my dad. Often had dinner guests say "It just tastes like meat" when introduced to new game. One reason I like small game like groundhog and raccoon is there is almost no competition for it. No porcupines here, (SE Iowa), but now I've got to look up a video on how to clean them. Lol.

[@lisasmitley8414]

I had to explain the difference between identical and fraternal twins to my ex and his fraternal twin sister. 🤦🏻‍♀️