‘Who’s the most out of touch with reality among all the people you’ve ever met?’ – 21 proper jaw-droppers
11.
‘A super rich Brazilian girl whom I studied with in London. She lived in Knightsbridge, and thought that Poundland is a joke. She actually didn’t believe that these stores existed.’
–kink-of-wands
12.
‘I once worked with a woman who, to put in nicely, spent far too much time watching absolute nonsense on YouTube. This woman claimed that Beyoncé, as well as many other best-selling black music artists, had sold their souls to the devil and by buying their music that was ‘the illuminati winning again’.
‘One day she comes in after watching a documentary and proudly claims ‘the worst thing then Nazis ever did was inventing money. It’s all been shit since then.’ Obviously, I had to put her straight: ‘Okay Louise, one: think about all those old Roman coins that get dug up right? They’re way older than the Nazis. Two: Even if the Nazis had invented money, fairly sure that’s not the worst thing they ever did…’.’
–pumpupthejam77
13.
‘Worked with someone who slammed a copy of The Psychic Times on my desk and said ‘You see. Uri Geller killed Saddam. I told you’.
‘The weirdest part was I’d never spoken to her about it, I can only assume she spoke with me at length on the subject with her psychic powers.’
–Scrambledpeggle
14.
‘A friend. Ridiculously high IQ and I got her a job behind the bar at a pub I was working at. We literally had to point out when to collect glasses, when to serve people, when to take the bins out etc. Absolutely no common sense. Is a partner in a law firm now.’
–Emergency-Aardvark-6
15.
‘My mother in law while we were planning a family holiday to Tunisia asked me once ‘How many Euros should I bring?’ I laughed and said ‘None, they use Dinar there’. And she looked at me like I was an idiot and said ‘Not dollars, euros’. I said ‘No, Dinars, they’re in North Africa, they use Dinars’.
‘She said ‘AFRICA? Will there be giraffes and safari tours there?’. I said ‘No, we’re a long way away from the Sahara” and brought up Google maps on my phone to show her. When I turned the screen to show her the map of the world, she pushed it away and said ‘Not bothered’. She’s 55.’
–Deep_Banana_6521
16.
‘I’m a female electrician, the amount of guys I’ve worked with that think periods work like having a piss.’
–Specialist_Sound2609
17.
‘My dad once called me in a panic and asked me to load our family PC in the car and drive it down to his work and put the phone down. When I got there he explained that he was taking my mum and their friends to a concert that evening and the ticket people had sent the tickets to his email.
‘I’m like ‘Okay, but why do I have the PC in the car?’. And he explains that the tickets are in there.’
–LennyMcTavish
18.
‘I have a former friend who was gifted a £350k house outright by his parents, and regularly complained whenever they bought new things for themselves that they were ‘wasting’ his inheritance. He also cried because his brothers were given houses before he was.’
–lavenderacid
19.
‘I once had a colleague who genuinely thought that the internet was ‘stored’ inside computers, and that’s how we could all access it like a giant library in each machine. People really can have some bizarre ideas sometimes, but it definitely makes life more interesting!’
–twirlytressanna
20.
‘A former work colleague who thought that cars were pushed forward by their exhausts, much like a jet engine.’
–Nearby-Percentage867
21.
‘My dear mother (school teacher, retired) once voiced her concern that solar panels might drain the sun of its energy.’
–Gullible-Lie2494