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<h2>While &quot;age is just a number&quot; and getting older doesn&#39;t necessarily mean you&#39;ll magically acquire more knowledge, sometimes you see someone struggling with a seemingly simple task and wonder how they&#39;ve lived so long without ever knowing that you can lift a toaster&#39;s handle to get toast out...</h2><p>We&#39;ve all probably endured a moment in life when you can&#39;t believe you roamed the planet for as many years as you have without knowing something so basic, but it&#39;s never too late to learn something new. While it might be embarrassing to ask a question to someone much younger about something you probably should know, learning curves are everywhere and there&#39;s no shame in seeking help. Still, sometimes there&#39;s nothing to do but laugh when you can&#39;t believe your best friend didn&#39;t know that you weren&#39;t supposed to eat the red wax around cheese.</p><p>So, when a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/11y22g/what_is_the_most_absurd_youre_too_old_to_not_know/">Reddit </a>user asked, &quot;What is the most absurd &#39;you&#39;re too old to not know how to do that&#39; thing that you&#39;ve seen?&quot; people were ready to share the wildest and funniest examples they&#39;ve witnessed of someone being too old to be <em>that</em> confused by the world.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>1.</h2><blockquote> <p>My mom can&#39;t remember whether blue or red is associated with hot or cold. When she&#39;s in the car and wants to turn on the AC, she just randomly sets the dial to one side or the other and waits for the air to come on to see whether she&#39;s right or not. - montereyo</p> </blockquote><h2>2.</h2><blockquote> <p>I&#39;ve met more than one person who doesn&#39;t get fire alarms. When my husband and I first got an apartment together, we were cooking and we burned something; the smoke caused the smoke alarm to start beeping. Instead of opening the window to let the smoke out (like a normal person), he calmly walked to the door and began putting on his shoes to go outside and wait for the fire department to come - because he thought that when the smoke alarm goes off, <em>that&#39;s what you do.</em> After all, why else would we have gone through all those fire drills in elementary school? - monteryo</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>4.</h2><blockquote> <p>My grandmother is 88 years old. Drives a Ford Mustang.</p> <p>Does not know how to put gas in her car. Has literally driven cars for 70 years without ever once using a gas pump. She calls me every few weeks to go over there and follow her to the gas station, so I can pump for her.</p> <p>I don&#39;t have the heart to tell her that the employees will do it if she asks nicely, since it&#39;s one of the few occasions where I see her. - raging_as*hole</p> </blockquote><h2>5.</h2><blockquote> <p>Oh I am all over this one. I had an old roommate/boyfriend who was very VERY sheltered when it came to basic life stuff. Here are some highlights:</p> <ol> <li> <p>Laundry. Had never done it. Ever. When he moved in, all his clothes were filthy because his parents hadn&#39;t visited in 6 months or so. And so nothing had been washed since then. Had to show him how a washer/dryer worked.</p> </li> <li> <p>Cooking. Could only use a microwave. Making ramen on a stove was a mystery. More than once I saw him crunching his way through a half cooked packet because he didn&#39;t get the water past warm.</p> </li> <li> <p>Bananas. This is my absolute favorite. I came home with fruit (parents also not good with encouraging a healthy diet), and handed him one. He bit into the skin. Looked confused. Saw me looking at him oddly. I had to show a 21 year old man how to open a banana. He had eaten them many times before, and had never been shown/asked to peel his own. - geirrseach</p> </li> </ol> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>6.</h2><blockquote> <p>My college roommate asked me how to make a sandwich. Like how to actually put mayonnaise on the bread and slice a tomato. He was 22 and had recently been accepted to medical school. God help us. - nedguychai</p> </blockquote><h2>8.</h2><blockquote> <p>My girlfriend in college didn&#39;t know how to boil water. I explained how easy it was (water goes into pot, pot goes on stove, turn on the stove) and she did it, then left the pot there for four hours waiting for the water to &quot;finish boiling&quot;. Of course all of the water evaporated, she completely burned the shit out of the pot, and then started to panic and cry because she didn&#39;t know how to turn the stove off. - capcalhoon</p> </blockquote><h2>9.</h2><blockquote> <p>Not my story, but my sisters. She was a residential advisor for first years in college. She smelled smoke in the common room and found that a girl had put a bowl with foil in the microwave and it was on fire. She put the fire out, the girl came out and said it was her food and she thought foil would make it heat faster in the microwave. - curlygirl86</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>10.</h2><blockquote> <p>Met a woman in a parking garage that didn&#39;t know that her key could unlock the door. She flagged me down to ask if I could give her a ride to get a battery for the keyfob that unlocked the door so she could get into her car. - Nezerin</p> </blockquote><h2>11.</h2><blockquote> <p>I dated a guy (he was 19) that did not know how to use a steak knife. Instead of sawing the meat, he attempted to force the knife through it by simply <em>pushing down.</em> I don&#39;t know if you don&#39;t know this, dude, but steak is not quite the same consistency as softened butter. He kept shaking the entire table (we were in a restaurant) as he tried to force the knife into the meat. Eventually I stopped him, took his knife, and showed him how to <em>saw</em> the meat - his mind was completely blown. When I asked him how it was possible that he didn&#39;t know how to do this, he told me &quot;oh, my parents usually just let me pick up the meat in my hands at home.&quot;</p> <p>We broke up a couple months later. - throwsuperaway</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>12.</h2><blockquote> <p>23 year old friend just learned how to do the dishes and laundry this weekend. - pwylie</p> </blockquote><h2>13.</h2><blockquote> <p>My roommate of 3 months now has astounded me with the inane things she doesn&#39;t seem to grasp, for example: She saw me making a cheeseburger and promptly exclaimed &quot;that&#39;s how you melt cheese on it?!&quot; or something to that effect. She put a lid on something in the microwave and the handle started to smoke and melt because she didn&#39;t think that there might be a screw holding the thing together. She follows directions on mostly cooked food, ie: ready rice, frozen veggies etc, to the letter and then doesn&#39;t understand that there may be any number of discrepancies between our appliance and the instructions, complains her food never cooks, AND EATS IT ANYWAY. Also she cannot seem to wrap her head around turning her light off when she goes to sleep and not running up the power bill, taking a half hour long shower in the morning while 3 other people are getting ready for the day and insisting that her word is infallible - nonseussianproverb</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>14.</h2><blockquote> <p>how to wash your face.</p> <p>i think most people dating back to early humans have figured out the- cup your hands under running water, lean your head over the sink and bring your hands up to your face process.</p> <p>i lived with an adult girl who did NOT know to do this. she would just swat the water up at her face and get the sink, the counter, the mirror, the toilet, EVERYTHING soaking wet. - [deleted]</p> </blockquote><h2>15.</h2><blockquote> <p>A friend of mine tried to cook rice in the kettle because she understood it involved heat and water. That was her logical conclusion..</p> <p>She&#39;s 27. - F*CKING_EVERYTHING</p> </blockquote><h2>16.</h2><blockquote> <p>My current roommate has no idea how to shop for groceries/manage the food he has already bought. Now, we live about a 3 minute walk from a pretty large grocery store, so food shopping is by no means inconvenient. His food is constantly rotting in the fridge; when he orders out he leaves the leftovers in the fridge until they have to be thrown away; he currently has 3 half-eaten bags of chips (same brand/style). He probably ends up throwing away $100 worth of food every month. - BrianSnow</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>17.</h2><blockquote> <p>Giving tip! My friends are sweet and DO tip, but figuring out 10% or 20% is like rocket science to them. - Move the decimal over, BOOM. 10%. Need 20%? Double that sh*t! - Bananapopcicle</p> </blockquote><h2>18.</h2><blockquote> <p>My girlfriend went 15,000 miles without getting an oil change. She thought you only bring it in when there is a problem. - par016</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

18 people share funny stories of someone being way too old not to know something.

While &quot;age is just a number&quot; and getting older doesn&#39;t necessarily mean you&#39;ll magically acquire more knowledge, sometimes you see someone struggling with a seemingly simple task and wonder how they&#39;ve lived so long without ever knowing that you can lift a toaster&#39;s handle to get toast out...We&#39;ve all probably endured a moment in life when you can&#39;t believe you roamed the planet for as many years as you have without knowing something so basic, but it&#39;s never too late to learn something new. While it might be embarrassing to ask a question to someone much younger about something you probably should know, learning curves are everywhere and there&#39;s no shame in seeking help. Still, sometimes there&#39;s nothing to do but laugh when you can&#39;t believe your best friend didn&#39;t know that you weren&#39;t supposed to eat the red wax around cheese.So, when a Reddit user asked, &quot;What is the most absurd &#39;you&#39;re too old to not know how to do that&#39; thing that you&#39;ve seen?&quot; people were ready to share the wildest and funniest examples they&#39;ve witnessed of someone being too old to be that confused by the world.1. My mom can&#39;t remember whether blue or red is associated with hot or cold. When she&#39;s in the car and wants to turn on the AC, she just randomly sets the dial to one side or the other and waits for the air to come on to see whether she&#39;s right or not. - montereyo 2. I&#39;ve met more than one person who doesn&#39;t get fire alarms. When my husband and I first got an apartment together, we were cooking and we burned something; the smoke caused the smoke alarm to start beeping. Instead of opening the window to let the smoke out (like a normal person), he calmly walked to the door and began putting on his shoes to go outside and wait for the fire department to come - because he thought that when the smoke alarm goes off, that&#39;s what you do. After all, why else would we have gone through all those fire drills in elementary school? - monteryo 4. My grandmother is 88 years old. Drives a Ford Mustang. Does not know how to put gas in her car. Has literally driven cars for 70 years without ever once using a gas pump. She calls me every few weeks to go over there and follow her to the gas station, so I can pump for her. I don&#39;t have the heart to tell her that the employees will do it if she asks nicely, since it&#39;s one of the few occasions where I see her. - raging_as*hole 5. Oh I am all over this one. I had an old roommate/boyfriend who was very VERY sheltered when it came to basic life stuff. Here are some highlights:   Laundry. Had never done it. Ever. When he moved in, all his clothes were filthy because his parents hadn&#39;t visited in 6 months or so. And so nothing had been washed since then. Had to show him how a washer/dryer worked.   Cooking. Could only use a microwave. Making ramen on a stove was a mystery. More than once I saw him crunching his way through a half cooked packet because he didn&#39;t get the water past warm.   Bananas. This is my absolute favorite. I came home with fruit (parents also not good with encouraging a healthy diet), and handed him one. He bit into the skin. Looked confused. Saw me looking at him oddly. I had to show a 21 year old man how to open a banana. He had eaten them many times before, and had never been shown/asked to peel his own. - geirrseach   6. My college roommate asked me how to make a sandwich. Like how to actually put mayonnaise on the bread and slice a tomato. He was 22 and had recently been accepted to medical school. God help us. - nedguychai 8. My girlfriend in college didn&#39;t know how to boil water. I explained how easy it was (water goes into pot, pot goes on stove, turn on the stove) and she did it, then left the pot there for four hours waiting for the water to &quot;finish boiling&quot;. Of course all of the water evaporated, she completely burned the shit out of the pot, and then started to panic and cry because she didn&#39;t know how to turn the stove off. - capcalhoon 9. Not my story, but my sisters. She was a residential advisor for first years in college. She smelled smoke in the common room and found that a girl had put a bowl with foil in the microwave and it was on fire. She put the fire out, the girl came out and said it was her food and she thought foil would make it heat faster in the microwave. - curlygirl86 10. Met a woman in a parking garage that didn&#39;t know that her key could unlock the door. She flagged me down to ask if I could give her a ride to get a battery for the keyfob that unlocked the door so she could get into her car. - Nezerin 11. I dated a guy (he was 19) that did not know how to use a steak knife. Instead of sawing the meat, he attempted to force the knife through it by simply pushing down. I don&#39;t know if you don&#39;t know this, dude, but steak is not quite the same consistency as softened butter. He kept shaking the entire table (we were in a restaurant) as he tried to force the knife into the meat. Eventually I stopped him, took his knife, and showed him how to saw the meat - his mind was completely blown. When I asked him how it was possible that he didn&#39;t know how to do this, he told me &quot;oh, my parents usually just let me pick up the meat in my hands at home.&quot; We broke up a couple months later. - throwsuperaway 12. 23 year old friend just learned how to do the dishes and laundry this weekend. - pwylie 13. My roommate of 3 months now has astounded me with the inane things she doesn&#39;t seem to grasp, for example: She saw me making a cheeseburger and promptly exclaimed &quot;that&#39;s how you melt cheese on it?!&quot; or something to that effect. She put a lid on something in the microwave and the handle started to smoke and melt because she didn&#39;t think that there might be a screw holding the thing together. She follows directions on mostly cooked food, ie: ready rice, frozen veggies etc, to the letter and then doesn&#39;t understand that there may be any number of discrepancies between our appliance and the instructions, complains her food never cooks, AND EATS IT ANYWAY. Also she cannot seem to wrap her head around turning her light off when she goes to sleep and not running up the power bill, taking a half hour long shower in the morning while 3 other people are getting ready for the day and insisting that her word is infallible - nonseussianproverb 14. how to wash your face. i think most people dating back to early humans have figured out the- cup your hands under running water, lean your head over the sink and bring your hands up to your face process. i lived with an adult girl who did NOT know to do this. she would just swat the water up at her face and get the sink, the counter, the mirror, the toilet, EVERYTHING soaking wet. - [deleted] 15. A friend of mine tried to cook rice in the kettle because she understood it involved heat and water. That was her logical conclusion.. She&#39;s 27. - F*CKING_EVERYTHING 16. My current roommate has no idea how to shop for groceries/manage the food he has already bought. Now, we live about a 3 minute walk from a pretty large grocery store, so food shopping is by no means inconvenient. His food is constantly rotting in the fridge; when he orders out he leaves the leftovers in the fridge until they have to be thrown away; he currently has 3 half-eaten bags of chips (same brand/style). He probably ends up throwing away $100 worth of food every month. - BrianSnow 17. Giving tip! My friends are sweet and DO tip, but figuring out 10% or 20% is like rocket science to them. - Move the decimal over, BOOM. 10%. Need 20%? Double that sh*t! - Bananapopcicle 18. My girlfriend went 15,000 miles without getting an oil change. She thought you only bring it in when there is a problem. - par016 

While &quot;age is just a number&quot; and getting older doesn&#39;t necessarily mean you&#39;ll magically acquire more knowledge, sometimes you see someone struggling with a seemingly simple task and wonder how they&#39;ve lived so long...