‘What’s the dumbest misuse of an object with an actual purpose that you’ve witnessed?’ – 21 especially idiotic misjudgements
12.
‘My granny who didn’t ever cook meals at home used to use her kitchen oven as just a regular cupboard.’
–Mediocre-Scarcity-99
13.
‘A statue of Nelson’s column, like a piece of plastic tourist tat. Obviously it has a decorative purpose for those so inclined to display these things. I work as an A&E doctor, where I saw it not being used for its original purpose.’
–saltwatersunsets
14.
‘A burger bun wedged between two live wires (insulation to keep them from touching) going up a building in Cienfuegos, Cuba.’
–Orarian42
15.
‘Not me, but my uncle who is a mechanic. I don’t think you’ll find many cars with one, if at all anymore, but some years back he had the same customer come in multiple times complaining that the car was running poorly and needed fueling up too much. Eventually he discovered that she had been pulling the choke valve out as a holder for her handbag.’
–No-Shoe7651
16.
‘I didn’t have a toaster and tried putting crumpets in the microwave once. It was like eating warm rubber.’
–apeliott
17.
‘I have a resident at the property I manage that makes tea inside the kettle.’
–zDarcky
18.
‘I work in phone sales. A gent came in with a SIM issue. I fixed it, made a test call, all worked fine. He wanted to test it himself and call his wife. No problem. The bloke opened up the contacts, pulled up his wife’s number, grabbed a piece of paper, wrote the number down, closed the contacts, opened the phone app, and dialled the number manually.
I tried to show him how to call from contacts but he wouldn’t believe me that it was possible.’
–tomgrouch
19.
‘I still get outraged to this day when I witness my friend cut pizza with normal kitchen scissors rather than a pizza cutter!’
–JBB2002902
20.
‘My friend had a baseball cap on backwards and was squinting because of the sun. He then asked to borrow my sunglasses.’
–DapperLax
21.
‘A friends kid (probably 12/13) was going camping with a few of us, so we were all car sharing. On the journey there, we were in quite an older car, and they thought that a cassette player in the car was a wireless phone charger. They tried putting their phone in it for a good five minutes, before we asked what on earth were they doing?’
–Carinwe_Lysa
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