Why Do I Have to Explain THAT to You?
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Today I had a lady come through my drive thru with a coupon that made an item $1 and then she ordered another item that was already $1, and then she didn't understand why her bill was $2.12... It took 2 cashiers and a MANAGER to explain to her that each item was $1 and also had $.06 tax on each dollar... She couldn't have been older than 35
I learned that as a child when buying stuff at the dollar store. Everything was exactly $1, but I had to make sure I had an additional 5 cents per dollar I intended to spend, to cover tax.
I remember seeing commercials as a kid that said, "If you can find 4 quarters in your sofa cushions, you can buy _____ at Taco Bell, because this month they're only one dollar each!" And I told my dad how they were lying, because, what about tax? He told me that some states did not have sales tax, which blew my mind. "What?! When I buy a piece of gum for 25 cents, I have to make sure I have extra pennies, because the tax is 8.7 cents on the dollar!"
It didn't bother me too much before, since it was THE LAW, but to find out there are places where nobody paid that -- well, it was infuriating to little kid me. And adult me too, I guess.
@@michaelwinkle4480 I'm smiling at the injustice to little kid you. I get you.
To adult you, I'd offer this comfort. The tax is still being paid in States with no sales tax. It's just that they are not turning business owners into unpaid tax collectors for the Gubmint.
The people in those States are simply paying a differently structured tax.. But the money is till getting where it needs to go, without unfairly targeting the poor (or little kids).
i am afraid of this since here in the philippines we have our taxes stated on the price tag or atleast we follow the price tag and not worry abt cashiers
Was she a foreigner? Many countries use a VAT rather than Sales Tax. VAT is already included in the sale price so the price on the shelf is what you actually pay. Sales Tax being added to the listed price shocks a lot of Non-Americans for this reason.
Her: "How cool is that bridge between Denmark and Sweden? It's both a normal bridge, then goes underwater as well."
Me: "Under....oh, yeah it turns into a tunnel."
Her: "No no I mean, like an underwater bridge! How cool is that?"
Me: "....wut....?"
Her: "That's some crazy engineering, man! I didn't even know it was possible to make a bridge like, in the ocean."
I was just left speechless...
I’d rather answer a stupid question than fix a stupid mistake
That wiper fluid one hurt my soul and I’m not one of those guys who are into cars
That hurt me too and I'm a stereotypical female.
The difference between "controlling diabetes" and "curing diabetes". Guy thought he could stay off the chocolate cake for a few months, get cured, then resume pigging out on chocolate cake, having "reset" his system.
Yeah when people say they cured their diabetes, they mean they have it fully managed through diet. The diet must be maintained to keep their blood sugar in check. And it's not as simple as laying off the chocolate cake.
He's setting himself up for major irreversible complications. I hope he gets it together so his parents, if they are still around, won't have to bury their son
~facepalm~ Yes, and I thought in middle school that if I didn't wear my hearing-aid, I could train my ears to hear, being born WITHOUT THE PROGRAMMING TO HEAR WITHOUT THE DEVICE.
It doesn't work like that but at least I figured it out after it failed. Not as deaf and dumb as I thought.
The alphabet.
No joke. I was training new ppl at work. We have shelves in alphabetical order and a very special blonde woman who had clearly bleached her brains out.
She too was English like me.
My friend has asked me multiple times "if the earth is spinning so fast, why don't we see a blink when the sun passes" I've told her over and over that nighttime is the "blink" because even though the earth is spinning around 1,000 mph, the earth is so big that it takes a full 24 hours to complete a rotation. She still doesn't get it. She's otherwise very intelligent and better at math than me so I don't know why this concept escapes her.
Maybe you could have her calculate the circumference of the Earth with just that information. Maybe if she does that, it'll be easier to visualize? People who are good at math are usually visual learners so maybe it would help her visualize it is diagrams don't help.
She is a mathematics teacher, not a science teacher.
(4:47) And this is why we have stupidly obvious footnotes on things.
"The President of the United States (left)..." while he's stood next to the Easter Bunny*
*A person wearing an Easter Bunny Costume
Also why we have warnings on Milk that it "Contains Dairy" and Peanut Butter that it "Contains Peanuts".
the steaming teabags will melt.the bin bag, thats why people leave them to cool down.
Or in my case, let the bag *dry* in the sink, as to not soak the trash and potentially leak out if the bag have a small puncture near the bottom.
That's some shitty bin bags.
Had to explain how stupid it is to take a hunting knife strapped to your belt to an interview...
Not surprised he didn't get hired.
I was talking to my friend about his kids medications the other day and he asked me if a pediatrician was a doctor. Followed up shortly by is a gynecologist a doctor that's what I want to be
12:50 Some plastic garbage bags will melt from boiling water.
But by the time the teabag is done, there is no boiling water. The cup of tea you pulled the teabag from is not boiling.
@@mariabarker2036 that is a good point.
I had a coworker who was studying for her Masters in Communications who had never heard of the country of Wales and didn't believe me when I told her about it.
404 error: wales does not exist
i had to explain to my grandma that the sun does not go around the earth, i was 3rd grade and she was dumbfounded
To your Grandma's defense a lot of people aren't taught basic astronomy in school.
That I had to explain to a classmate in a COOKING CLASS that 1/3rd is not greater than 1/2.
This is what got a 1/3 pound burger discontinued. People thought a 1/4 pound was bigger because it had a bigger number on the bottom.
Why do I keep having to explain to humans that they shouldn't trespass in my forest
Hmm gotta be more aggressive about the rock throwing, buddy
Hey, free food though
@@spooniesarah And/or the feces throwing
@@puppetseducer or tree knocking
Hay foot, if I bring you some beef jurky can I come into your woods?? 😂😂😂😂😂
Don't stand at the top of a rock outcropping during a thunderstorm
Oh the Alaska Hawaii dilemma 😂
In highschool a girl walks into our classroom looks at the map of North America that had been pulled down and says
"Since when was Alaska all the way up there? I thought it was down here near Hawaii"
My teacher and I look at each other with our jaws dropped. Apparently she had scene Those maps of the mainland US that put Hawaii and Alaska in little boxes off the coast of California. For some reason she thought that was the accurate map despite definitely having seen proper maps countless times in her educational career. I could see an elementary school kid making this mistake but not a highschool junior.
It is scary people this ignorant vote. Although the fact that we had an elected official that didn't know Guam was a US territory should be even scarier and unacceptable.
I've heard of people that make that same mistake. There was a girl on Reddit that said she argued with somebody for an hour because they told her Alaska wasn't an island and she was sure it was. When she found out it wasn't an island it absolutely blew her mind.
Hot tea bags go in the sink to cool down so they don’t melt your trash bag. Idk how probable it is but I’d rather not risk it.
Wait until she finds out they speak Mexican in spain 😂
It’s a tie between the hundreds of people I’ve had to tell them that the green button on the pinpad means “yes”, and the middle-aged guy I had to coach through using a credit card.
That you can’t pause an online video game
We were discussing the price of gas. I mentioned that England was already paying $4 in the 1990's. I was told that was the price per liter (possibly) then informed me the liter is bigger than a gallon.
I asked her, "If the liter is bigger, then why does this 2 liter bottle of soda say it's aproximately 1/2 gallon on the label?"
She still insisted the liter is bigger.
How buy one get one free works, and if you only get one item, it's not at a discounted price
If it was in a grocery store I can understand the confusion because some places will not let you do that. You have to buy both to get the discount. Had to explain that the store in my town does allow you to buy one half off.
my stores do allow you to get one half off without buying the other. so that’s probably why people get confused. 😅
@@herusaleron6793 That defeats the purpose but ok
@@Cerinaya It's never been that way at our store, so it shouldn't be that confusing
Me and a bartender once had to explain to a friend of mine why the one bartender she was friends with wasn't at work every single moment whenever she came there.
She just couldn't understand shifts and how the guy and everyone else with jobs had lives outside of work.
Mind you, she knew me and multiple others had jobs and often had to spend time looking at out schedules to meet up.
Her parents were and still are paying her house and living expenses so she never had and probably never will understand any simply obvious things about working
The other bartender just looked at me like "Why are you and that guy friends with her?!?!" and I felt so embarressed
2:28 as a native Pennsylvanian, a new day does in fact start at midnight, its just most of the time zone is asleep by then
In Hebrew, we call pickles 'מלפפונים חמוצים', which translates to 'sour cucumbers' so I was really confused as to how someone could not know they are cucumbers lol
Because most English speakers do not communicate in Hebrew.
We call pickles, pickles, which do not translate to 'sour cucumbers'
I'm confused as to why you'd be confused by that, since you obviously know the word "pickle" and this video was not speaking Hebrew.
@@mariabarker2036 since I grew up hearing and knowing the Hebrew version, to me it's obvious that it's a cucumber as it's in the name. So, when I hear the word pickle, my brain doesn't immediately start analyzing language differences and how it's different in English. To me, it's obvious, and so my first instinct is to think 'but it's obvious!'.
No need to get all ramped up about it.
@@mariabarker2036 also, a lot of bilingual/ multilingual people translate what they hear/ read to a language they're more comfortable with in their heads. I do that a lot of the time, and while I don't remember what was going on when I watched this video, that could be the case.
And as for me knowing the word... you do realize that google translate is a thing, right? I do know this word, but it could just as well be that I looked it up.
I showed a grown man, with a degree in engineering, how to change a light bulb. He had simply never seen it done before.
Dude got upset when we didn’t have any more product when he showed up 30 min to close.
I once had to explain to a former coworker what a spatula is. Even the simplest of jokes would go over their head.
How weight pads activate security gates. Guy faked a resume to get a supervisor job at my company, said he had been a cop for 30 years. The fact was that for the 29 years prior he had worked as a waiter and had not driven a car in that time. One time I had to bail him out when he was driving in circles in the parking lot, calling on the radio "How do you get these gates to work?"
"4 builders build a wall would take four, 6 builders building a wall would not equal six hours"
Honestly...its possible. You get a good enough conversation going and that could have the opposite intended effect. Its also possible to put more people on a job than needed and take longer to do it. Throwing more people on a job doesn't always mean it'll get done faster or even more efficiently. The job has a better chance of being done at a lower quality too with more people involved.
After college, I did short term gig jobs through various companies. For one job, they had three people. Two of us had to go behind the third and fix every system he installed to the point it would have been faster if it had they only had two installers.
how returns work (that you need to RETURN the item so we can RETURN the money you paid)
Telling adults either a animation is not a genre but a medium and B: Racism and bigotry is wrong
Had to explain to a fully assembled adult why a cartoon character did what was morally correct, instead of what it wanted to do.
I explained this after I picked my jaw up off the ground.
My mother, a nurse, taught me to understand why midnight is 'am' and noon is 'pm' by pointing out that you only have to be the tiniest fraction of a second past the exact moment of 12 before you are clearly after the meridian, or on the other half, before it. I was ten, maybe 9. She also taught me 24 hour time and that it starts at midnight... because of course it does. Because the day does.
How to double click. Computers have been common in homes for the last 40 years. I don't know how someone could get to this day and age never having touched a computer in their entire life, especially if they have been employed this whole time. Anyway, I've had to train more than one person to do this. Those were some very hard days... especially when we hadn't even gotten to the comparator for measurements, all the gauges, the micrometer, and the excel spreadsheet sheets.
To be a little generous, most people didn't have home computers until Windows 95/98 made it super easy. And Macs don't require double-clicking most of the time. So at worst, 25 years. Before Windows 95 (again, unless you used Apples), DOS was more commonly used than Windows 3.1/3.11 and DOS didn't use a mouse.
All that said, it's been 25 years. You can learn a language in less time. I feel your pain. My boss double-clicks _everything._ URLs, emails, buttons in apps... I don't have the energy to try to train her out of it and don't see myself having any success anyway. It'd be tremendous effort for trivial success even if I accomplished my goal.
I had to explain that the sheath of the sword is not supposed to be kept on the sword when swinging it
17:51 some men do have an extra hole there. The condition is called hypospandias. Perhaps she had a brother with the condition and nobody really explained it to her.
Also a credit card is free money. It's just that the "free" part is temporary and you have to pay it back.
Hypospadia means that the urethra opening (pee hole) is at lower position than normal, not an extra hole, and women have separate hole for urination and childbirth
@@frostincubus4045 apparently when it's repaired, the original hole is left there. goaskalice.columbia.edu/answered-questions/penis-two-holes-hypospadias
on the fridge light i did the experiment on how it works when i was a kid lol
"Fully competent"
That's a long shot.
Best way to explain anything about negative numbers is to use debt. Everyone understands debt. "You owe your credit card company $1200, and you pay it off in three equal installments; how much do you pay in each installment? $400. Is credit card debt a positive number or a negative number? Negative. Is the money you're paying positive or negative? Positive. So you're paying positive numbers to /cancel /out negative numbers, and you're dividing the total negative number by 3."
I may have spoken too soon. Apparently NOT everyone understands debt.
12:54 To be fair, that girl could’ve been sheltered her whole life up to that point.
P.S. The gas pump story and that one at the end were just sad!
I tried (emphasis on "tried") to explain to a girl I used to work with at Wendy's that hamburgers were, in fact, not made of ham.
I once had to explain to someone that if they maxed out their credit card and then they paid down $100 of it, they would only have $100 to use on that credit card. Apparently they thought as long as you paid something credit card company would let you keep charging forever.
most people are very very uninformed on credit cards. a lot of people think it’s just free money.
I had a friend who thought she didn't have to pay her credit card boll every month. She thought it was free and had unlimited amount of money on it
Working for dow janitorial at about 19-20 years old training adults to properly operate a broom
Or my personal favorite working for servpro last year having to explain why cutting through electric cables/gas lines is a bad idea
If you have to explain something simple to an adult, they might not be a 'fully competent' adult.
Exactly!
Male dogs do indeed have nipples. That’s not a tick on your mastiff’s belly, please stop pulling on it.
Also, a boiling hot tea bag could potentially melt the plastic of a trash bag, creating a hole and spilling the bag’s gross contents all over the bin. There’s good reason to let it cool, but it doesn’t have to sit out for this to happen. Just run it under cold water and squeeze out the excess water before chucking it.
I had to explain to a client that you had to leave the cellphone on in order to receive calls.
One of my classmates recently asked me if seafood was pork. She sounded so surprised when I told her that it has nothing to do with pigs
Maybe because neither are kosher?
@@MySerpentine Fish is Kosher. But what have the eating habits of some religious groups have to do with the OP's classmate? No hint of any religious affiliation in that comment, whatsoever.
@@mariabarker2036 That's the only connection I could think of.
I (an firefightrer) needed to explain bycycle drivers that they are NOT ALLOWED to pass an Firetruck whose Siren and Lights were on to prevent Traffic ramming an Rescue helicopter and a drowned body. Yet, they insisted to pass and chop off of they heads for letting me them pass. NO, I will kick you off of the bycycle to even think about it.
military time: Ever device I own , and by association, I run on it. People just don’t get it. Guess they can’t count beyond 12……
I see your a man of military time as well.
Fun Fact: I can tell both standardized time and military/24 hr time format time...not at all rare, just a fun fact...
Knowledge does not equal wisdom.
Wisdom does not equal knowledge.
The first one...I'm Embarrassed to admit I'm 24 and didn't even think if this until now.
But at least I did understand it straight away onc it was explained, I've got that going for me
Had to explain in a college class to over 15 people how to read an analog clock. They had seen nothing but digital and always wondered how me and my friend always knew when the class was going to start.
I had a 40 year old coworker that couldn't read analog clocks so I replaced every digital clock in sight of my work area with analog clocks just to irritate him.
@@randystegemann9990:) Love it.
How WiFi and internet are different. It was a 2-4 hour conversation.
Wouldn't be surprised if for a lot of people, they're pretty much synonymous (at least in most cases in their day-to-day lives)
Internet is the place, WiFi is one way to get to the internet.
Eta: it's not completely accurate analogy given WWW vs. internet but it works in an ELIA5
The disabled parking placard is not completely accurate. If you drive the disabled person and drop them off at the front of the store/building/entrance/etc, then you are not supposed to use the disabled parking spots since you are not disabled and can walk from the car to the building.
But if you help them to and from your car and go in with them, it's OK. But you have to take the placard off your mirror while driving and not use it anywhere else.
Yes. Obviously. What a dork that guy seems to be. In the meantime, someone who can't walk can't park near the store. Well done.
My ex wife could get how going 60mph we would in fact be traveling 30 miles every 30 minutes. It boggled her mind to no end.
I live in the upper Midwest and a year ago a coworker of mine went to Tennessee for vacation. A few weeks after she got back another coworker and I were talking about astronomy. She said that she loved stargazing in Tennessee because you're closer to the stars down there. I was confused at first then realized that she was in a rural area of Tennessee with no street lights. The lack of street lights makes the stars look brighter by comparison. The way her brain interpreted the extra brightness was that the stars themselves are closer to Earth in the south than they are in the Midwest. Tried to explain that the stars are so far away that driving a few hundred miles isn't going to make a difference in their appearance but I could tell she didn't get it.
Apparently a *lot* of people are under the impression eggs are a dairy product- I guess because in most grocery stores(in the U.S. anyway) the eggs are right next to the milk- guilt by association.
I'm allergic to dairy. Sometimes when I'm about to take a bite of fried rice people will say, "Stop!! That has eggs in it", thinking they had just saved me. Things like that started happening so often that now I tell people I'm allergic to milk products so they understand that I'm O.K. with eggs.
9:55 That's not my wallet
A teacher in my Zoom meeting didn't know what a cephalopod was. I know, pretty shocking.
*Sad Octopus Noises*
Squids, Nautiluses and cuttlefish too.
Well I'm not an adult and the person wasn't ether but in 6th grade I had to explain how 10×2×2 is the same as 10×4
Graphics designer here. Occasionally I make something that's circle or square shaped and give a single dimension to the client, who respond with "what about the length?" I have to explain that the height and length of a square is the same.
My friend is like a week younger than me (June 13th me) (June 27th her). We are both 12. She thinks that we are 13 right now and that this year we are going to be 14. It took me over 2 hours to explain to her why she is not 13 yet. This is a reoccurring conversation we have monthly.
h..how
@@EAZZEE I have no idea, I think there’s something wrong with her mentally
@@papercut931 I'd be interested to know how she managed to be only one week younger than you despite being born _two_ weeks later than you.
@@uuouuo5480 ok- I’m sorry I suck at math-
My mom’s a Karen sometimes.
In the past I was too afraid to say anything, but now I do. I have been making her aware of her behavior. She’s improved, but not after some conversations you’d have with a toddler.
I’d tell her she would be a public embarrassment. She said she didn’t care. I would explain why to her. And I would do that a lot for multiple occasions. I would also explain the reasons why that was uncalled for and embarrassing for each situation. And she improved!
So happy ending I guess.
A long way to go. A few incidents happened today. I had to apologize to somebody for her, which I do a lot. But uh, improvement! It was on the phone about criteria that I need to be a student for the fall semester. The next thing was over a prom dress that was mildly “stained”. Granted, the dress was $250, the price was lowered to $200. Later we start theorizing that the “stain” is a part of the dress because it is never the same and doesn’t act like a stain. And she fucking loves the dress.
Happy ending.
It’s a work in progress
That glass braking is not a chemical change (13 years old vs 50 ish years old)
And another time that an equilateral triangle could be split evenly into 4 pieces (8y/o vs 30ish y/o)
4:14 Hello light!
April never has 31 days
Let this thread be a lesson to all: graduating as an exceptional student from college does not exempt you from being an idiot about certain things.
3:25 For the same reason it's called the butt of a gun!
6:06
lol Im feeling dumb I always thought they went straight to the kidneys
I wish all grownups were as smart as Drunk Bob.
Bob misunderstood something he heard (we've ALL done that!)
Bob knew that what he understood to have happened would have dire consequences. (This part is very true. If Bob had been correct in what he thought had happened, we'd be in a tough spot!)
Bob went to the smartest man he knew with his concerns. (This is where the departure from normal Americana really happens!)
Bob understood the explanation and was relieved to find out the truth. (No resemblance to normal Americana Freakouts even exists at this point.)
I REALLY, REALLY want more Drunk Bob's in my life.....
As a contractor, I meet many people who don't understand that more work will cost them more money,
My daughter & a school friend had to explain to a boy in their year of high school (they were 15-16) that girls don’t lay eggs like a chicken!!! This boy has a younger brother & he watched his own mother go thru the pregnancy of his younger brother! I kinda thought his mum was always a bit thick & distant but this just proved it to me when my daughter was telling us this & her 11 & 12 year brothers laughed cos they knew a woman doesn’t lay an egg (like a chicken!)
Now I'm picturing a woman laying eggs while sitting in this 8 foot wide nest.
I didn't hear all of the disabled parking one but wanted to say if u are driving a handicapped person who can walk u can just drop them off, park in a normal spot and pull back up to the door when they come back out. That's what my fam does when they take me to the store.
Two days ago I had to punch in 4 minutes on the break room microwave for my middle aged coworker because she didn't know how to do it. I'm pretty sure she's on some kind of sedatives.
12:41
Probably they're too hot to put in the compost (or the trash, but I don't know why you wouldn't compost them), so he lets them cool down before moving them that far.
4:13 Imagine actually programming something in arduino to find out what happens, when the doir is closed. Could not be me.
I had to teach my 30something year old bf how to blow his nose... don't ask what he was doing before 😂
I don’t remember anything that’s like this but 1. It was my 9/10th grade algebra teacher said a mile was like 4850ft and I corrected her saying it was 5280ft. I was sent to the office.
I had to explain Chanukkah to an adult. For context, I live in an area where everyone, especially adults, at least knows what it is.
My grandma has full brightness and 194827394838483838 tabs open on her iPhone and she never turns it off. She just uses it and then waits for it to shut itself off. 3 hours of my life I’ll never get back
Actually the nurse not starting her day at midnight in Pennsylvania could be correct. Many nursing jobs work overnight and start before midnight but the work day is technically counted as the following day since the majority of the work day is worked during that day. It's weird and confusing and dumb but it IS correct.
A 45 year old woman believed the St. Louis Cardinals chose the Pope. She was a regular at the restaurant I worked.
24hour cycle is called military time??but why isn't it actually just time ?..btw i have no ideawhat time military use i think the usual 24 or 12 hour cycle whichever is suitable for the situation 🤷
I wonder if the "stomach for liquids" was connected to the bladder (urine) and the stomach for solids would be connected to the colon... I think maybe that's how that idea came around, not understanding how the bladder gets full? So it must be from different stomachs?
5:45 *Sweats nervously in Oregonian*
Third grade teacher needs to get fired...
If fish and poultry are the same, according to that person, is beef the same too?
11:23 its called English cuz its from England
I work at a shop with boba tea in the name, I have had to deal with multiple grown adults ask me "do you sell boba tea here?" Genuinely. It's so hard for me to not be sassy about it because it's so fucking dumb
The difference between sex, gender, sexuality and personal expression. She still doesn't get it (step mom)
My stupid sister didn’t understand she had to actually file her taxes.
Landlines used to work when the power was out because it was wired differently.
My dad thought female ducks and male ducks were two different species because they look different (fun fact! when the males and females of a species look different, it's called "sexual dimorphism")
It was today years ago that I realized Walker Texas Ranger was not his full name...
6:16 to be fair i thought that was how it worked when i was like- six lol
I had to explain that storm clouds release rain when going mountains and not through the mountain like a cartoon ghost through a wall
Transylvania is real. It’s not a made up country.
It took me forever to figure out where the water in the door was coming from cuz if you open the door of the fridge there's no connecting point there's no tube there's no anything I mean there's a connecting point where the ice comes out but where the hell does the water come from