Silly Questions people have asked YOU-!

[RCMerchant]

Trevor's  thread about silly questions got me thinking-what silly or just plain stupid have people asked you?
 
I ran my bike into a guard rail in front of Waggoners Groceries in 2003 and I had blood running from my nose.  Some moron see's me in the store and asks-"Are you bleeding?"  

[indianasmith]

I had a person look at my collection one time and ask me:  "Did someone make arrowheads or do they form naturally?"
Also, this isn't really a question, but I did have an old-timer tell me arrowheads were what happened when lightning struck a rock!

[RCMerchant]

I had a person look at my collection one time and ask me:  "Did someone make arrowheads or do they form naturally?"
Also, this isn't really a question, but I did have an old-timer tell me arrowheads were what happened when lightning struck a rock!

http://youtu.be/WXEfeUg7nA4

[Trevor]

I've been asked if we have toilets in Africa and how we deal with the wild animals roaming around.

That and Brother Javakoala asking about the koala races in Hillbrow. 

[316zombie]

generally this question comes to me at work,after someone has talked to me on the phone. then they meet me in person and i hear....YOU'RE A GIRL???? then i hear you're so TINY!!
   i have a male first name, and a very deep voice for a woman, especially one my size, i'm a scant 5'1" and a buck twenty sopping wet with work clothes and shoes on.
   it used to annoy me, but the older i get, the funnier it gets! 

[Alex]

Aside from a really stupid question I've mentioned in another thread, I've also been asked what time the one o'clock gun is fired in Edinburgh.

I think the worst though was after I'd been stabbed in the leg, when the doctor wrapped her finger around something hanging out my leg and ripped it out then asked "Did that hurt?" as I roared in pain.

[claws]

Not really a silly question but I get asked by Germans after they read my name (Bryan) how it is pronounced, or they just say it like this,

Brie-Ann
or
Bry-Jan
or
Brie-Yen

[ER]

Not really a silly question but I get asked by Germans after they read my name (Bryan) how it is pronounced, or they just say it like this,

Brie-Ann
or
Bry-Jan
or
Brie-Yen

Names have always given Germans problems, and many historians think that contributed to them losing the war. Some Wehrmacht private would see an enemy drawing a bead on a fellow Landser and yell, "Get down Hein...Hein...uh, Heinreich, Heinrich!" But by then the Russian would have ventilated his poor friend.

[lester1/2jr]

When I was a little kid I got lost briefly at the Macy's parade after wandering away from my Dad. I told this story to someone from my sister's husband's family and she goes "did they ever find you?"

[316zombie]

i feel your pain, bryan, my name is barri.

[Alex]

My wife just asked me who James Mason was.

[FatFreddysCat]

I've been asked if we have toilets in Africa

Well, DO you? 

I'm a fairly tall dude (6-foot-6 and a half inches) so for much of my teenage and college life the first thing people would ask when I met them for the first time was "Wow, you're tall, do you play basketball?"

...I got so tired of responding "No, I don't, in fact I suck at it" that I thought of having it printed on a t-shirt or a button to save myself the time and trouble. :D

[AoTFan]

I've been asked if we have toilets in Africa

Well, DO you? 

I'm a fairly tall dude (6-foot-6 and a half inches) so for much of my teenage and college life the first thing people would ask when I met them for the first time was "Wow, you're tall, do you play basketball?"

Being roughly the same height, I got the SAME questions a lot (that or the variant, "Do you play football.")  Neatly enough, none of my COACHES ever asked me that question...

BTW.. funny response, if a real short person ask you this, you can reply, "No, do you pick mushrooms?"

[AoTFan]

Let's see... been asked a lot of silly questions by this guy I used to give a ride to work with.  It's was really weird, because it seemed like nearly every word I'd use over two syllables I had to explain to him.  (Which, okay, fine, he wasn't that well read), but I'd also get questions from him like, "What's a T-Rex?"  (I mean, seriously?  How do you grow up not knowing what a T-Rex is??)  I explained it was for Tyrannosaurus Rex and, not wanting to just assume he knew what that was, I explained it was a really big dinosaur with two big back legs and two small front arms.

He'd also apparently never heard the expression "wide-eyed look" before (in fact, he thought I'd said, "WHITE eyed look.") And didn't know what I was talking about when I mentioned the really annoying sound you hear when you rub an inflated balloon.

(shrugs)

Maybe I'm the weird one though for actually knowing that stuff, who knows?

[stine.greta]

Former Colleague: What will I do with google?

Facepalm, I have already told her to research about European Football for her to have an idea on how to write a sports news.