I'm ashamed to admit how old I was when I realized__________

I was for sure in my early twenties because I was with DH and I asked him, "What state is the DelMarVa peninsula in?"

I have no idea why I never realized it just included parts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. I guess I. My head it was a place that was easily accessible by all 3 states but was an actual town or something in one state.

In my defense as soon as I said it outloud I kind of stopped myself and figured it out. 21 years later he still reminds me of it sometimes, lol.

My mom wa as hoarder - both the compulsive shopping type and the didn't clean type.

I was in jr high before I realized other people washed and rewore their clothing. My mom took us to buy 6 new outfits, new socks, new underwear, and new pjs every Saturday.

I was an adult before I realized that having open credit on a credit card was not the same as having cash in the bank.

I have a lot of weird shopping issues that I had no idea weren't normal because it was all I knew growing up.

Really messed me up as a young adult.

Right, so I was *cough* *cough* older... when I figured out why Daisy Dukes were named Daisy Dukes. Seriously, a huge DUH! moment.

This one always haunts me, so I might as well share it.

I was about 21 and my future DH (who I teased for being a city boy) and I went to my parents house for supper. The house I grew up in my entire life. Small town country girl and proud of it. We always had a big garden and I helped my dad work it quite a bit. Well, just before we sat down to eat, daddy told me to go get some radishes out of the garden to go with the meal. Daddy and I ate radishes with everything all the time.

I take my happy self, thinking of the yummy radishes out to the garden and look everywhere for the radishes. I'm thinking maybe he planted them in a new spot since its been years since I worked the garden with him, I go back inside and ask, he says they are where they always were. I still couldn't find them and went back inside, this time my daddy goes out with me and straight to them. Pulling them out of the ground. Yep, I'd forgot they were a root and grew underground.

I've never lived that down from my city boy husband. I think it embarrassed my dad since thankfully he never teased me. Now I buy my radishes from the grocery store and know exactly where they are. What's sad is every now and then I go to get them out of the fridge and they are not there. I ask Dh where they went since I'm the only one that eats them. He says "did you look IN the ground" where he actually buried them from me.

I just saw something neat on Facebook that said something along the lines of "Don't worry (or maybe laugh, tease, etc.) if someone mispronounces something.  It just means that they learned the word through reading."  Then it said something along the lines of "comprehension first, pronunciation second".   



Oh, and this happens to me especially with names of people and places in books.

I was 31 before the lightbulb went off that ALL eggs aren't dead baby chicks. I was afraid my whole life that one day I would crack open an egg that was taken? stopped? who knows! too late and I would find a dead baby chick. I was quite embarrassed when I realized that hens will lay eggs regardless of the presence of a rooster. You need a rooster to fertilize an egg for it to become a chick. I just never gave it much thought!

Still...there's a part of me that's afraid someone will get a fertilized egg mixed into my dozen!

Well. I learned something new today! Sitting here thinking "Oh... Oh... Duh!" as I read your post.

You're not alone in this one…I keep backyard chickens and I have had at least a dozen people, smart highly educated people, ask me how I get eggs without roosters. I guess it's just one of those things you don't 'know' until it's told to you! The only reason I knew is because my Granny used to keep chickens and I asked her when I was a kid.

As a very young child, my dad told me that all the vitamins and minerals in bread were in the crust, and that the bread part was just for tasting good. I believed him and never once questioned his wisdom. Fast forward, my own child is refusing his crust one day. I say to him, 'All the vitamins are in the crust. The bread part is just for tasting good." to which my son says, "So, as bread bakes, the vitamins and minerals and all the good stuff just magically move to the outside of the bread?" A real duh moment for certain. I was like, "Never mind! I was kidding."

I tell my Grandmother this all the time! The crust is just the browned, outside of the bread! Stop making a big deal about eating the crust!!! SaveSave

OMG funny. I wish I thought of that

In the late 70's and 80's, money laundering was a frequent topic in TV and movies. I was about 14 when I learned what it really was. Before then, I had pictured people stuffing money into washing machines to get it clean.