#cluelessmoments #facepalm #howaretheystillalive
Men, whether it’s witnessing a friend attempting a DIY project that ends in disaster or seeing a stranger make a ridiculous decision, we’ve all had those moments where we can’t help but wonder, “How have they made it this far in life?” From questionable choices to mind-boggling actions, here are some of the most absurd things we’ve seen people do, leaving us scratching our heads in disbelief.
The Absurdity in Everyday Life
1. **Majoring in the Minor:** Have you ever watched someone spend hours arguing over the color of a pen or debating the best way to organize their socks? It’s mind-blowing how some people can get so caught up in insignificant details that they lose sight of the bigger picture.
2. **Tech Troubles:** From trying to charge their phone with a potato to using a hairdryer to cool down a overheating laptop, we’ve seen it all. It’s astonishing how some individuals come up with the most creative (and ineffective) solutions to simple tech problems.
3. **Culinary Catastrophes:** Who hasn’t cringed at someone attempting to make spaghetti without boiling water first or trying to cook a steak in the microwave? When it comes to cooking, some people seem to have missed the memo on basic kitchen skills.
Practical Solutions for the Clueless
1. **Offer Guidance:** Instead of laughing at someone’s misfortune, take the opportunity to offer helpful advice or demonstrate the correct way to tackle a task. A little guidance can go a long way in preventing future blunders.
2. **Encourage Learning:** Suggest resources, workshops, or classes that can help individuals enhance their skills and knowledge in areas where they’re lacking. Education is key to preventing future “how did they survive this long” moments.
3. **Practice Patience:** Remember that everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses, and we all make mistakes from time to time. Instead of judging or ridiculing, show kindness and understanding towards those who may need a little extra guidance.
As we navigate through life, we’re bound to encounter moments that leave us dumbfounded by the actions of others. By offering support, guidance, and understanding, we can help those who may be struggling in certain areas and prevent future facepalm-inducing moments. Let’s all strive to be a little more patient, a little more helpful, and a little less judgmental towards those who may need a helping hand along the way. After all, we’re in this journey of life together, and a little kindness can go a long way.
I’m constantly baffled by people who can’t take their eyes off of their phone.
I’m pretty sure hospitals see the dumbest, most preventable shit due to people’s phone addiction.
Pretty much every adult that I work with in retail struggles to have basic conversations with customers, or to get basic points across and it ends up causing so many problems. I have a coworker who uses lingo and jargon that is highly specific to our workplace, but he just uses it with customers as if they are meant to know what the hell he means, and when they get confused and angry, he gets confused and it’s just an endless circle of him over speaking but saying nothing and causing everyone around to become annoyed. How the hell does a person like this survive?
The entire career of William Shatner. Never has so little acting talent gone so far.
I had a coworker that during training could not figure out how to use a sink. I wish I was joking.
I once saw a video of a guy trapped on top of his car by a charging grizzly after he tried to pet its cub, I don’t have those moments often but that’s definitely in the top 5
Watched a dude remove stumps with thermite. Too much thermite ended up with a stump through the window of his truck.
Last week interviewed a lady that was maybe 33. She needed a moment to sit in silence in the room before she was ready. Not that unusual for a first time interviewer. Kbit she had about 8 years of working experience.
Gave her 15 minutes to collect her thoughts. I came back and her father was sitting in the meeting room with her. She brought her dad. A 33 year old woman with almost a decade of working experience brought her God damn father on an interview.
And before anyone asks. She wasn’t autistic. She didn’t have ADHD. She was just fine.
She was just still depending on her father to take care of her and negotiate the terms of work.
at times I’ve thought this about myself.
Hired an older woman, maybe mid 50s, a couple years ago. Everything went fine.
Day 1 of training, I’m showing her our computer software. I ask her to click on an icon. She asked how. I told her just click on it. She stared at me.
I assumed she was asking if it was a touch screen. I told her it wasn’t, and to use the mouse.
She said “What mouse?”
More concerned, I pointed at the one next to the computer. She stared at it for a second and then asked “That’s a mouse?”
Oh boy training got a LOT harder. Turns out she had LITERALLY never used a computer, mouse, or keyboard before that day.
My ex-wife was in her mid-40s and thought that credit card companies charged APR *every* month. So if you carried a balance of $100 and the APR was 24%, you would get charged an $24.00 that month, owing $124 total. Carry that balance another month, it would add 24% of $124.00 bringing the total owed to $153.76 , and so on. When I told her that wasn’t how it worked, she went into a *rage* and wouldn’t talk about it, insisting I was wrong and that I was “wasting our money” by carrying a small balance on occasion.
When I worked at a hardware store we had a “customer” (I don’t think he ever actually bought anything) come in once a week and ask the stupidest questions. One that sticks out was him picking up a roll of teflon tape and looking me dead in the face asking “how do I use this?”, I never thought I would have to explain to someone how to use fucking teflon tape.
Edit. I actually remembered something even dumber but it was the same “customer”. The guy dead ass asked me how to use a hacksaw.
Worked at Dunkin Donuts years ago. First customer this particular day asks for a medium coffee with 14 creams and 12 sugars and then had the audacity to ask me why his coffee was cold. Telling him over half his cup is not coffee did not help him understand. So I broke it down very simply, “Hot stuff mixed with cold stuff results in something not hot.” He asked if I was getting smart with him, and I said, “Yes, because this is elementary school science.”
People really go their whole lives with no critical thinking.
This is how I feel when people say they can’t cook. For us, cooking is just reading directions and following them. There is no reason that any adult should not be able to cook basic meals unless you have some type of disability that makes reading hard.
Had a guy get into a tire cage, with the tire, to fill up a split rim tire. Only days after another had been killed the exact same way.
A woman trying to pump gas into a tesla
Believing that if you mix 87 octane gas and 89 octane gas in a car that it will cause it to immediately explode.
I work in IT, I see it on the daily. I had an executive call me and tell me they needed me in their office immediately because their computer wouldnt turn on. I went to the office pushed the power button and wouldnt you know it turned on.
I used to joke that stuff was hard because people don’t read.
I still say it, but I am no longer joking.
A well known youtuber took +2kilovolts and survived with 3rd degree burns, and posted the video in youtube to warn people how dangerous high voltage is
There was a guy I worked with as a forklift driver. He was very accident prone but the first accident had him on workman’s comp so the company had to deal with him until he was eventually fired.
The collection of things he did were as follows:
Stuck his arm out while driving a cherry picker through an aisle. He smashed his arm on one of the merchandise racks and got injured.
Backed his cherry picker into the electrical conduit for the garage door of our service shop. Pinching the cable and almost starting an electrical fire.
After those two incidents he was moved to the waste department to break down trash. He proceeded jump on top of cardboard boxes stuck in the cardboard compactor while it was on. He disappeared shortly after and needed help getting out of the equipment that could crush him into a cube. How he didn’t get fired for this one I don’t know.
Lost his glasses in the giant mattress shredder we had onsite. The thing could shred a kind sized mattress into bite sized pieces in like 30 seconds. He then proceeded to climb into said mattress shredder to retrieve his glasses. Of course he did not have the machine locked out or tagged out while this happened. Again how he wasn’t fired for this I do not know.
Sold his single mode of transport in October in Colorado for a motorcycle. Proceeded to drive said motorcycle all throughout the upcoming winter in Colorado. Even on snow days. Somehow managed to survive the winter only to accidentally dump the bike in the parking lot after sliding out on gravel in the spring that was left over from the winter snow control.
He eventually got fired for mundane reasons. But I often think of him and wonder if he’s still bumbling through life miraculously. Or evolution finally caught up to him and fulfilled the death wish this man seemed to have.
A former friend of mine decided she wanted to make her hair sparkly so she put glittered nail polish all over her head and hair. At the age of 28. Thought that was fine.
She also thought she could bike 8 miles to work every day (with only running a couple times a week as current exercise level) and not have her body begin breaking down.
The last straw I had with her was when she refused to empathize with animals. I threw plenty of scientific studies and papers at her that explained that some animals have the intelligence of children, and that leaving animals isolated and living in filth was as bad for them as it was kids. She also wanted to declaw her cat because it scratched her once.
Turns out, she was a pretty terrible person overall.
Back when I worked at a car dealership, we had a lot attendant in his early 40s. Nice guy. Quebecois. Very enthusiastic. An absolute master at looking busy and making something to do when there was nothing to do. Couldn’t wash a car to save his life. We got so many customer complaints because he missed 15 spots on every car. He couldn’t drive, either–needed a 10-point turn to get out of the wash bay. Literally every other person at the dealership could get out of that wash bay with a 2-point maneuver. There was lots of space.
He eventually got fired after crashing a customer car into another customer car.
I won’t call out the company, but I sat in a forum with a bunch of startups.
And this founding CEO talked about how he was reckless as a kid, did lots of coke, crashed cars, going to rehab, etc and how he was so thankful, etc. As the story went on it turned out that his dad was a big time lawyer, wealthy, and well-connected.
This CEO spun this story as being a story of perseverance but to me, and the audience, it was a story of privilege, and the permission to fail if you have money, and that most problems are just expenses if you have money and you can eventually get lucky if you have enough money to keep trying and failing until something sticks.
It was the worst speech I’ve ever heard. He was addressing early-stage startup founders.
I think this every day. Most people are overwhelmed and sometimes have difficulty doing basic life things. I’d say most things about life have been dumbed down. More pictures then instructions.
There was a guy running a battery charger and heat dish plugged into a multi plug adapter in an extension cord land stood there with a hose spraying and cleaning corrosion off the car battery. It was me, I remember standing in a puddle of cold water surrounded by electric tools and a heater thinking “how am I alive right now?”
I saw a man at the mall a few days ago, and watched him walk into a glass wall/window of a store, right next to the door. He stepped back, watched someone exit through the door and then turned and walked square into the glass wall again. I was reminded of a Jack Nicholson quote…”I look at people sometimes and think, Really…that’s the sperm that won?”
As a career firefighter paramedic I think this thought on a daily…
I have people in their 60-70’s calling 911 for things so asinine it’s amazing! How to deal with a common cold? My toes been sore for a month so I’m calling 911 at 3am!
There was that middle-aged lady in an elevator.
She’s carrying a stack of water bottles inside an elevator. Puts it on the floor. Then sees the pack of water that is holding the elevator doors open (put there for that purpose). Stares at it for 0.8 seconds probably wondering why would somebody carry the pack 95% of the way and not put it on the elevator floor. Takes the pack and slides it fully on the elevator floor.
The elevator doors close. The lady looks at the doors in surprise, seemingly wondering why would they close now, when those remained open all the time she was coming towards the elevator. Maybe realizes the elevator starts moving. Tries to open the doors with her hands while it is moving! Fail safe kicks in and elevator stops between floors. She opens the doors all the way. There is concrete between floors in front of her.
She tries to squeeze her body, legs first, between the elevator floor and the concrete, under the elevator! The doors closed behind her. That’s where the camera footage stops. It is the only footage that has made me ask myself out loud how did she make it to that age? Apparently she made it out safely, somebody got her out from the elevator shaft.
every boomer boss i had
Got a lawn mower’s front wheel stuck under a chain link fence, then proceeded to grab the still running mower by the bottom of the deck,, push mower by the way, and cut part of his middle finger off.
I am that guy. Barely broke the tip of my middle finger, took 5 stitches to sow it shut. Have pictures to prove that it happened, from 2 years ago. had orthopedic surgery to have the broken tip removed along with the finger nail.
That’s just the most recent dumbass thing I’ve done to myself 🤣🤣🤣
I’m constantly amazed by the complete lack of curiosity a lot of people seem to have , I’m not the most cultured guy don’t get my wrong but like we have these magical devices with access to all the information anyone could ever want and what do people do ? Nothing absolutely nothing
I met a friend during my training for callcenter. He was the mos “Normal” guy I’ve ever met, middle and average in every aspect, a life nor too good or too bad.
After two weeks of training we started answering calls. When I finished mine I asked for him, the trainer told me he quited after his first and only call, he barely talked on the phone. I feel bad for this guy, I’m pretty sure I was his only friend.
My mother in law. Her whole life consists of drinking. She sleeps in till 5pm gets up goes to liqour store drinks all night until about 4 am. Rinse and repeat every day. 7 days a week 365 days a year.
Been over 20 years of this pattern. Has no job, gets welfare, any extra money goes to more alcohol or smokes. Does not drink water or anything else. Drinks a full 12 pack per day if not more.
No idea how shes stil alive.
Riding shotgun with a friend that is older than me. Been driving for about 15, 20 years. We pass by a sign that says the name of the town we’re going to and the distance. Sign said “Springfield 10”. Typical.
We passed by and he said, in all seriousness, “man, I can’t believe there’s 9 other Springfields and we only been to one. Are the others far from here? How people don’t get confused?”
And yes, this was in our country. The country he’s been driving in for 2 decades. I explained to him that 10 was the distance and he tought I was shitting him.
i worked with a guy in our team fitting Air Conditioners and Central Heating, accident prone isnt the word for this guy, whilst welding a pipe for a radiator he set fire to a curtain that was hanging in front of him- litteraly hanging in front of him (he was trying to weld the pipe without moving the curtain away), a lot of welding he done set fire to something, The bosses were ‘sorry’ for him cos he couldnt get to stay in a job. He moved a lorry with rocks on the back and instead of lifting the back to empty it he tried reversing and braking to momentum them off- he lost the lorry down a mountain- still down there it is!!! Was working at a school on a walk in boiler for the heating (dont know the name for it) he managed to blow it up!!! I could write a book on his clumsiness
Edit- one more! After a New years eve party one of the owners let him take his (the Bosses) car home for him as the boss was pissed, it was a brand new Merc he just got for Xmas! He managed to crash INTO one of those massive concrete pipes that was on a side of the road to be used for water!!! They had to break the pipe he was stuck in to get him out!!! Never really saw him at work after that
Watched a dude on a firing line, jam his gun then turn it towards his face to peer down the barrel before someone grabbed it from him.
I used to work with at-risk youth. It was a residential setting and one of the boys had a low functioning IQ. I sent that boy away because the others were making fun of him and picking on him. Had him do some small task outside while I preached and preached Hellfire and brimstone about making fun of others that weren’t as lucky as yourself. I must have ranted at those poor boys for 10 minutes. About an hour later the sun went down and I took them all to the Planetarium where there were telescopes set up on the roof among other things there was a telescope was aimed at a 3/4 Moon. Each telescope had what looked like a teacher’s assistant near it to make any adjustments in Focus that were needed. One random man kept grabbing the focus on the 3/4 moon in cranking and cranking. The teachers assistant ran over and stopped him and then refocused the Moon. The man look back into the eyepiece and I swear to freaking God he asked the teacher’s assistant “can’t you get the WHOLE moon? ”
I really couldn’t help myself I began to laugh as politely as possible but I reached the point where I was down on one knee laughing with tears. That’s when I realized that I was laughing at someone it wasn’t as lucky as me. The very thing I and preached Hellfire and brimstone about.
My co worker is 40 and he put his food in the microwave with aluminum foil, and it caught fire
Didn’t see it, but saw the effects after, someone used a clothes steamer, whilst wearing the clothes and then was surprised when they received burns from it that needed hospital treatment. The words “I didn’t think it would be that hot” left their mouth and they didn’t realise steam came from boiling water.
A few weeks ago, COVID came up in conversation in a college class I’m a part of. Motherfucker asked where germs come from, and it had to be explained to him that germs are the reason why everybody has to wash their hands.
There’s this idiot tow truck driver I know that I saw get trapped in a car he had just finished unloading. It was an Audi with a wonky electrical system, and he made the mistake of closing the door while he backed it off of his tow truck. He was trapped in there for a good five minutes, trying to figure out how to get the doors open before he finally tried one of the back doors. Also locked. Luckily the passenger side back door was opened and he inchwormed his way out of the car that way.
I was like, “For Fuck’s sake, how do you tie your shoes without choking to death?”
I know a 32 year old who keeps getting into beef with some of his 19-21 year old coworkers. That same guy left off a gasket when doing an oil change- which is easy to miss but isn’t something that shouldve happened- and he was the same guy to forget to turn off an engine for an oil change almost causing thousands of dollars in damage and may have led to a writeup for the whole team.
I used to work at a DiY shop. A customer came up to me with those towel hooks you can stick on walls. The fully grown woman asks “these look identical, but one says waterproof and the other doesn’t. What’s the difference?”
I obviously answered “well one is waterproof and the other isn’t” to which she thanked me and walked off. As if I had just given her new insights.
Friend’s grandpa would leave his car running if he was at the store and thought he wouldn’t be longer than 30 minutes
I watched someone cross four lanes no blinker no pause in front of two trucks so they could get to their exit. My first thought was “how are you not dead?” No slowdown, just 70mph so they could cut in front of me two feet from a concrete barrier. Just… how did you get a license?
Posted about this before but a 30 year old woman I went on a date with complained to me about how her boss was mad at her for skipping work and being late. That boss texted her during the date to ask for a meeting to talk about her work ethic and she asked me if she should go to the meeting or not.
I saw a guy on a plane complain to the fight attendant that the windows wouldn’t open to let in air.
And when I was a teen I worked at a pizza place. Someone called in asking how big the twelve inch pizza was. When I said “12 inches” he called me a smart alec.
Had an hvac guy come over to install an air filter system and a humidifier. The guy installing it kept cutting off the gas line to check something then clicking it on again. I literally watched him do this 10 times before he turns to me and says, “sir, you may want to get your system checked for a gas leak, I smell gas from it.” I dead panned and said, “could it be perhaps that you turned it off and on again 10 times in a row and that’s why you smell gas?”
“Nah can’t be that. I’m gonna call the gas company to take a look at it.”
So we evacuated the house and had the gas company come out. They got there quickly and checked the gas lines and furnace. Even set up a series of meters. No leaks. The tech asks me how old the system is, about 2 years old. So he turns to the hvac guy, “you sure you smelled gas?” The hvac guy goes “well yeah, I smelled gas after I installed the humidifier. I had to turn it off and on again a few times to check it worked.”
Never have I seen a look on someone that screamed you’re a fucking dumbass. I had turn away to keep myself from laughing at the idiot.
Needless to say, I hired another hvac company to double check his work. Surprisingly he installed it correctly but holy shit was he stupid.