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Post by ktdoesntscrap on Jun 7, 2016 21:14:18 GMT
When I was in middle school we went to San Francisco after walking around for a few days... I asked who Pierre was and why he owned so many buildings.
I saw Pier 25, Pier 27.. etc.
Same trip I asked what a PED Xing was.. No idea it meant Pedestrian Crossing.
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Post by bearmom on Jun 7, 2016 21:18:48 GMT
Can I give one about dh?
younger dd (6 or 7 at the time) was talking about the number of letters in the alphabet and how it took 24 weeks to get through all the letters (one per week).
I said something about 26 weeks?
Dh dh argued with me that there were only 24 letters in the alphabet. We had to count them before he would believe me........
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milocat
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Post by milocat on Jun 7, 2016 22:02:14 GMT
It took me years to remember the difference between annual and perennial flowers. Do you annually plant them or do they annually come up?? That's what confused me, I could interpret it both ways.
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Doxiemom
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Post by Doxiemom on Jun 7, 2016 22:18:14 GMT
My stepfather thought that the staph infection my mother got in the hospital was called a "staff infection" because you got it from the hospital staff. He had never seen it spelled and thought it was spelled "staff".
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2016 22:29:18 GMT
That is funny . I have one - when I was very small I asked my dad why he turned the indicator on in the car, he said it was because we were turning into grandma's house. For ages after, everytime I saw a car with an indicator going I thought the people in the car must be visiting their grandparents' house! For me it was the Co-op. Every time a vehicle would break down we'd take it to the Co-op. So naturally I thought that any time something broke we had to take it there. ::: narrows eyes :::::: are you telling me there are people who don't take their vehicle to the co-op to be fixed? LOL My dad ran a co-op when I was growing up. Every town we ever went to he would find the one in town even if he wasn't looking for it. It is like he has a homing button for them. He even found them in Nova Scotia and Italy...
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Post by jennyap on Jun 7, 2016 23:10:28 GMT
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! In a similar vein, I was around that age before I realised that cows have to give birth to produce milk.
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Post by Minty118 on Jun 7, 2016 23:16:19 GMT
I was in my early 20's when I realized that you could make mashed potatoes out of real potatoes! My mom was not a good cook and always made mashed potatoes from those potato flakes from a box. I was at my now husbands house and his mom was making mashed potatoes from real potatoes. It totally blew my mind!! My DH was 34 when he found this out! Around the same time he found out that food that came in a can didn't have to taste like a can. His mom is not a very good cook
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Post by vspindler on Jun 7, 2016 23:43:14 GMT
Why my uncle who only has one arm uses gift bags for presents.
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paget
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Post by paget on Jun 8, 2016 0:23:57 GMT
I was 10... I I hated the fried chicken at my uncle's house, hated it! Then I looked at the platter and it hit me. Chickens do not have 4 legs! Squirrel doesn't taste like chicken. Edited to add. I stopped eating meat at his house. Oh my goodness. Did he actually cLl it fired chicken or did you just assume it was?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2016 0:30:45 GMT
They said it was fried chicken
I knew not to eat the "beef". That was always deer.
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paget
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Post by paget on Jun 8, 2016 0:32:16 GMT
My brother laughed at me for so Long when I was making boxed brownies. I was 20 and was pondering f the directions on the back that were different for high altitudes. I asked "how do people know if they live in a high altitude." I was just wondering because I had never heard anyone mention our altitude and maybe I'd been making the brownies wrong all Along.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2016 0:32:31 GMT
I was in my early 20's when I realized that you could make mashed potatoes out of real potatoes! My mom was not a good cook and always made mashed potatoes from those potato flakes from a box. I was at my now husbands house and his mom was making mashed potatoes from real potatoes. It totally blew my mind!! My DH was 34 when he found this out! Around the same time he found out that food that came in a can didn't have to taste like a can. His mom is not a very good cook I love boxed mashed potatoes. Yumm .... I eat them straight from the box.
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Post by paget on Jun 8, 2016 0:33:44 GMT
They said it was fried chicken I knew not to eat the "beef". That was always deer. That's just mean. And I do not like venison at all. It has a very distinct taste.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2016 0:36:56 GMT
They said it was fried chicken I knew not to eat the "beef". That was always deer. That's just mean. And I do not like venison at all. It has a very distinct taste. As I get older and see things from an adult perspective, yes my sainted uncle was a very mean person.
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Post by bostonmama on Jun 8, 2016 0:49:32 GMT
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! In a similar vein, I was around that age before I realised that cows have to give birth to produce milk. Another thing I never thought about!! Really?! Ha!
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Post by 950nancy on Jun 8, 2016 1:22:52 GMT
I just learned last year that I've been pronouncing "cacophony" wrong my entire life. It's obviously a word I don't say out loud much, but I've been reading it in my head wrong all this time. I used to pronounce it ka kuh phone e. I mispronounced it to my class for years. Then I saw "Phantom Tollbooth" on video and realized it.
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Post by 950nancy on Jun 8, 2016 1:27:51 GMT
It took me years to remember the difference between annual and perennial flowers. Do you annually plant them or do they annually come up?? That's what confused me, I could interpret it both ways. Perennials are perfect. They don't have to be replanted. I still have to say that in my head when I go flower shopping every spring!
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Post by mlynn on Jun 8, 2016 1:40:58 GMT
I was in my teens before I figured out tuna were not tiny little minnow sized fish. I thought they were skinned and canned, teeny tiny little fish. I have no sense of direction at all. In my 20's I told my then boyfriend to go west to get to the Chinese restaurant. He was surprised I gave an actual direction and asked me how I knew so I said slowly "lefttttt, westttt" and he about died laughing explaining to me that left is not always west. Oops.
When I was a kid, my mom was always getting lost and I would have to find our way back to the highway so she could carry on. As a result I did not trust her decisions when driving. I would tell her she was going the wrong way going back home to Mount Vernon because the median was on our left and it had been on our left going to Seattle. Sometimes I would almost panic because she would not listen to me about it.
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Post by 950nancy on Jun 8, 2016 1:45:43 GMT
I have always lived in an area that exit numbers correlate with distances. I was shocked that some cities and highways don't work that way.
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stella68
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Post by stella68 on Jun 8, 2016 1:48:22 GMT
Moved to the U.S. at the ripe age of 40. About 5 years later I got a speeding ticket.....not in my own 400 hp sports car but a Ford Focus loaner hahaha. Called husband to tell him about it and he asked me where I was speeding. Me: On Frontage Road Him: Where? Me: On FRONTAGE ROAD! Him: Which one? Me: The one in San Antonio, duh! Him: Bless your heart...... Me: Huh? Him: Good bye Yup, took me 5 years to realize that there are about 538 frontage roads in San Antonio and that it's just a fancy word for an access road.
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Post by Skellinton on Jun 8, 2016 1:58:01 GMT
I was in my late 20s and visiting the Alamo before I realized that Davy Crockett was a real person. Standing in front of a display that had a lock of his hair and his portrait I exclaimed, quite loudly I am embarrassed to say, "Davy Crockett was real?" Some person next to me gave me a good hard look, shook their head and walked away. I thought he was like Paul Bunyan, I only knew him from old Disney reruns.
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Post by boys5times on Jun 8, 2016 2:00:35 GMT
You know those highway signs that say 'exit only'? I thought for the LONGEST time that meant that you could only get OFF the highway there, you couldn't get back on. DH had a good laugh about that and explained that the LANE was only for the exit. In my defense - I don't and have never driven ME too! And I DO drive. I'd think to myself "oh I don't want to get off at that exit to get gas, I won't be able to get back on". I found out about 4 yrs ago!
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sharlag
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Post by sharlag on Jun 8, 2016 2:55:23 GMT
I was in my late 20s and visiting the Alamo before I realized that Davy Crockett was a real person. Standing in front of a display that had a lock of his hair and his portrait I exclaimed, quite loudly I am embarrassed to say, "Davy Crockett was real?" Some person next to me gave me a good hard look, shook their head and walked away. I thought he was like Paul Bunyan, I only knew him from old Disney reruns. made me laugh so much I had to get up and go pee!!
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~Lauren~
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Post by ~Lauren~ on Jun 8, 2016 3:12:04 GMT
When I was dating my ex, his brother loved to brag that he worked for Dunn & Bradstreet. He was so chuffed with himself for working there. I had never heard of it (I was in my early 20's) and one day when he was bragging I said "Billy, where is Brad Street?" I thought he kept saying he worked "down on Brad Street". I was embarrassed but he was crushed that he'd been bragging to me for months for nothing.
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Post by gsquaredmom on Jun 8, 2016 3:13:34 GMT
I have always lived in an area that exit numbers correlate with distances. I was shocked that some cities and highways don't work that way. Just curious. Where have you seen it not be correlated? I have not been all over the US, but where I have been, it seems to correlate very well.
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~Lauren~
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Post by ~Lauren~ on Jun 8, 2016 3:14:38 GMT
It's not correlated on the major highways in NY.
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gsquaredmom
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Post by gsquaredmom on Jun 8, 2016 3:28:11 GMT
It's not correlated on the major highways in NY. Thanks. New York is one place I have not driven. Interesting and good to know!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2016 3:38:09 GMT
I have always lived in an area that exit numbers correlate with distances. I was shocked that some cities and highways don't work that way. I learned this today. I'm 50.
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Post by mlynn on Jun 8, 2016 4:20:19 GMT
I have always lived in an area that exit numbers correlate with distances. I was shocked that some cities and highways don't work that way. I did not realize they indicated the miles on the highway until I was probably in my 20's? As a kid I wondered who the idiot was that numbered the signs and kept skipping numbers.
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Post by AussieMeg on Jun 8, 2016 4:20:32 GMT
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! You are right to still be afraid!! One day a couple of years ago DSO was making brownies with the kids and he broke an egg - from a carton, from the supermarket - into the bowl and there was a shrivelled up black thing that they said looked like a dead baby chicken. They all freaked out and threw it all in the rubbish bin and told me never to buy that brand of eggs again. I didn't get to see it because I wasn't home, but all 3 of them swore black and blue it looked like a little dead chicken. I have no idea (if it really was a chicken foetus) how the heck the egg got fertilised at a chicken farm when they presumably don't let their chickens come into contact with roosters. I wished they had kept it for me to see so I could take a photo and share it here. Yep, that's me, always thinking of the Peas!
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