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<p>Surviving in this big wide world of chaos is no easy feat, and growing into a functional adult takes time, trial, and plenty of error.</p><p>While we all have our own pace when it comes to learning how the world works, there are some people who are so disconnected from basic common sense it can be a marvel to witness. If you&#39;ve ever interacted with someone and waited for them to reveal the punchline, because it felt impossible to believe that&#39;s just <em>how </em>they live, then you know exactly how weird things can get.</p><h2>In <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/mstaae/what_is_your_this_person_has_no_idea_how_the_real/" target="_blank">a popular Reddit thread</a>, people shared their most memorable interactions with people who don&#39;t know how the world works, and it&#39;s truly wild.</h2><p> </p><h2>1. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/kiravai/">kiravai</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>When I was in boot camp, some kid put his letter addressed to &#39;mom&#39; with no address attached.</p> </blockquote><h2>2. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/poostainsunlimited/">poostainsunlimited</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>A student working part time at my laboratory at a University came into my office and asked &ldquo;so what all can I eat in the refrigerator, I didn&rsquo;t know I was supposed to bring my own lunch&rdquo;. I looked at him, stunned and replied &ldquo;nothing, that food is what people brought for their own lunch, but you can use my grub hub to order&rdquo;. He DID NOT UNDERSTAND. It took 4 tries to get him to realize he can&rsquo;t just eat someone else&rsquo;s lunch.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Same student: I walked into the lab room and told him I made a full pot of coffee in the office and he could help himself. Him: &ldquo;a pot of coffee? What&rsquo;s that?&rdquo; He never used a coffee maker other than a Keurig before and didn&rsquo;t even know it was a thing.</p> <p>He was fired a month later for stealing chloroform.</p> </blockquote><h2>3. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/thedankbank1021/">thedankbank1021</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>At a national park, the park ranger says &quot;stay on the trails, there are bears in the area.&quot;</p> <p>One lady says &quot;isn&#39;t that dangerous? Why aren&#39;t they in their cages?&quot;</p> <p>&quot;Ma&#39;am, we&#39;re not a zoo.&quot;</p> </blockquote><h2>4. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/frizzkid/">frizzkid</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>My mom was a park ranger at Rocky for a while. Her faves:</p> <p>What time do you turn off the waterfalls?</p> <p>At what age do the deer become elk?</p> <p>Where do we go to meet Smokey the Bear? (as if he were a Disney mascot character attraction).</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>5. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Winiri/">Winiri</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I lived with some Japanese exchange students during the final summer of college. They were really nice girls, but one of them (Mari) (~19 years old) obviously had no idea how anything worked. She spoke the best English and I was tutoring some of the other girls, while they helped me with my Japanese.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>But Mari would constantly call me to come to get her because she thought we had free buses (all the buses). After all, we were students. That wasn&#39;t the issue. I could deal with that. It was a whole new culture. She was learning.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>But what happened that made me realize Mari could not be left on her own was when she ended up in Eloy, Arizona. Which was ~400 miles and five hours from where we were. She had been talking to some guy on campus, he said he was visiting family in Arizona, and she said &quot;I want to go.&quot;</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>He just took her with him, and she went without even telling us. She had just assumed the guy would take her back, but he said he couldn&#39;t because he was staying in Arizona. So I had to arrange a ticket, get her on the bus via the phone, and then pick her up two hours away because she missed her second bus by napping.</p> </blockquote><h2>6. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/_SCHULTZY_/">_SCHULTZY_</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I had a friend who was in some uncredited scam online college for her master&#39;s degree in medical billing or some dumb shit. She was on a loan program that was sending her about $5k every 3 months directly to her via check in the mail.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>This was her only source of income. She kept calling it a grant that didn&#39;t need to be paid back. She was flat ass broke as a joke for 2 months but then the check would come in and she would be living the good life for a few weeks before being poor again.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>We tried to do an intervention and show her the insane interest rate that would be back dated as soon as her &quot;school&quot; was done but she didn&#39;t want anyone to bust her free money dreams.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>She just kept talking about all the money she would eventually be making billing insurance companies...turns out she wasn&#39;t even logging in to the online college or even attempting to get this degree.</p> <p>She thought the money was free, the degree was automatic and the job was guaranteed. Some people are beyond help.</p> </blockquote><h2>7. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Caladan109/">Caladan109</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Listening to a faulty new car story when it turned out the woman (42) was driving for 7 months with the hand brake on the whole time.</p> </blockquote><h2>8. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/TheBrohannes/">TheBrohannes</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>My boss told me about a friend of his, who told him af a &quot;life hack&quot;. She would get her bills in the mail, NOT pay them, and then wait a couple of months to pay. Then she would cry so the debt collectors would feel bad and waive the fees for not paying on time. That was her &quot;brilliant life hack.&quot;</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>9. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/hlfpint/">hlfpint</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>The other day, my 18-year-old brother-in-law got married to his high school sweetheart in a parking garage so that they can live off campus at college together. HIs girlfriend&#39;s, now wife, mother is an ordained minister. His parents, my in-laws, were very upset and he couldn&#39;t understand why because &quot;it&#39;s just a fake marriage for school&quot;. Oh no, sweet boy. You are MARRIED. I just laughed and laughed. I love him dearly. He is a dumba*s.</p> </blockquote><h2>10. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/BigDerryAir/">BigDerryAir</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>A dude (18 year-old) in boot camp got a letter from home and I can see he is agitated. Being 22 and concerned for his well-being, I asked him if he wanted to talk about it. (I&rsquo;m thinking a Dear John letter or the Mom and Dad divorcing letter.) He dead a*s told me that his younger brother got a Mercedes for his birthday and that he was pissed bc he &ldquo;only got a BMW&rdquo;. I can&rsquo;t remember what I said, but I knew boot camp was gonna knock his dick in the dirt. (It did.)</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>11. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Zoomyboomy/">Zoomyboomy</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>When my roommate, who never once paid for rent or groceries or anything, turned down the only job offer they have ever gotten, in front of me, TWICE. They were so desperate they called him twice, offering good pay, during covid, and he had the gal to say no in front of me. His excuse was &quot;nah I&#39;m sure there&#39;s something better. $20 an hour is garbage in this city&quot; -_-</p> </blockquote><h2>12. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Toast-Master-General/">Toast-Master-General</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>When looking for somewhere to rent after university halls, one of my mates was annoyed because he didn&rsquo;t like the lounge in the house his parents BOUGHT HIM OUTRIGHT to live in.</p> </blockquote><h2>13. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/sassyla/">sassyla</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>My mom was spontaneously in the city I live in and asked me to meet her for supper. I told her I was on the bus and it would take me 45 minutes to get to her, even though in a car it would be a 15 minute drive. She said &quot;just tell the bus driver to bring you here now.&quot; She has no concept of how public transportation works.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>14. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/cleaning-meaning/">cleaning-meaning</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I worked for a very sheltered and entitled Mother as a nanny.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Shortly after I got hired she called me at 3AM asking me to come in because the baby wouldn&rsquo;t stop crying. When I said no, she responded with &ldquo;but you&rsquo;re the nanny!&rdquo;.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>And that was a constant thing. At one point she got sick of breastfeeding and asked if I could start nursing. All of this was very casual too. Like she wasn&rsquo;t really mean about it.</p> </blockquote><h2>15. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Bithame/">Bithame</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Back at the end of university I met up with my rich friend who just a got a brand new car from his dad worth +- &pound;60,000 after getting his driving license...so naturally we went for a ride. At one point he asked me &#39;what are you going to do after uni?&#39; to which I answered &#39;find a job in XYZ whilst investing/slowly growing side incomes&#39;. He got very confused then and asked me &#39;but why do you need a job? Can&#39;t you just start your business?&#39;. He had no idea of the struggle to pay bills and think about your budget etc...</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>16. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/opwanderer/">opwanderer</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>My old roommate was only paying $25 on her credit cards every month, but was putting almost every purchase on them. I felt so bad explaining to her that she was now in credit card debt.</p> </blockquote><h2>17. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/idontdigdinosaurs/">idontdigdinosaurs</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>A first year college student of mine thought that assignment deadlines were guidelines. Nothing was handed in on time. She emailed me the night before her final exam to see if I&rsquo;d take some of her late work. I told her hell no. She threatened to report me. I let her. She failed, got reprimanded and was eventually expelled due to plagiarism.</p> </blockquote><h2>18. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/WeddingElly/">WeddingElly</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s like free money&rdquo; in response to any kind of financing or borrowing (car financing, student loans, credit cards, home equity line of credit).</p> </blockquote><h2>19. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/MissReanimator/">MissReanimator</a>:</h2><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Two things immediately come to mind. First being a young girl I used to work with at Target. She was hired for the 6am-2:30pm shift, but she regularly showed up between 8-9am without any good explanation. After the third time or so, our supervisor asked her if she had something to do in the morning, such as getting kids ready for school, that required a later shift? If so, she could be moved to the 8am-4:30pm shift. The girl&#39;s response was, &quot;No, I still want to leave at 2:30. I just don&#39;t want to get up that early.&quot; She was fired when she refused to acknowledge that you cannot make your own schedule.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Second is one of my roommates. A 23-year-old who is quite literally unable to take care of herself in any capacity beyond ordering fast food. I once heard her yell at her mother because she was filling out a job application and got stuck on a section. Her mom was trying to help her finish but she got frustrated and screamed, &quot;Can&#39;t you just fill it out? I want to go play my games.&quot; Before you ask, no. There are no disabilities. She&#39;s just lazy, spoiled and incredibly stupid.</p> </blockquote><h2>20. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/EarhornJones/">EarhornJones</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>We had a relatively new hire where I work, a young woman relatively fresh out of college. Because we had been colleagues in another department when she was interning, she ate often ate lunch with me.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>She frequently complained about how bad her coworkers were. I didn&#39;t know them, but it seemed odd. After about a year, she applied for, and got a different job at the company, but the new job didn&#39;t start for 2 months.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>She asked me if I thought she should take a leave of absence until then, because she didn&#39;t think she could stand working 2 more months with her current coworkers.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>I asked what they were doing that was making her so unhappy. She complained that they often told their mutual boss that she would come in late, take very long lunches, then leave early.</p> <p>&quot;Do you do those things?&quot; I asked.</p> <p>&quot;Well, yes, but they don&#39;t have to be birches about it,&quot; she replied.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

20 people share moments they thought: 'this person has no idea how the world works.'

Surviving in this big wide world of chaos is no easy feat, and growing into a functional adult takes time, trial, and plenty of error.While we all have our own pace when it comes to learning how the world works, there are some people who are so disconnected from basic common sense it can be a marvel to witness. If you&#39;ve ever interacted with someone and waited for them to reveal the punchline, because it felt impossible to believe that&#39;s just how they live, then you know exactly how weird things can get.In a popular Reddit thread, people shared their most memorable interactions with people who don&#39;t know how the world works, and it&#39;s truly wild. 1. From kiravai: When I was in boot camp, some kid put his letter addressed to &#39;mom&#39; with no address attached. 2. From poostainsunlimited: A student working part time at my laboratory at a University came into my office and asked &ldquo;so what all can I eat in the refrigerator, I didn&rsquo;t know I was supposed to bring my own lunch&rdquo;. I looked at him, stunned and replied &ldquo;nothing, that food is what people brought for their own lunch, but you can use my grub hub to order&rdquo;. He DID NOT UNDERSTAND. It took 4 tries to get him to realize he can&rsquo;t just eat someone else&rsquo;s lunch.  Same student: I walked into the lab room and told him I made a full pot of coffee in the office and he could help himself. Him: &ldquo;a pot of coffee? What&rsquo;s that?&rdquo; He never used a coffee maker other than a Keurig before and didn&rsquo;t even know it was a thing. He was fired a month later for stealing chloroform. 3. From thedankbank1021: At a national park, the park ranger says &quot;stay on the trails, there are bears in the area.&quot; One lady says &quot;isn&#39;t that dangerous? Why aren&#39;t they in their cages?&quot; &quot;Ma&#39;am, we&#39;re not a zoo.&quot; 4. From frizzkid: My mom was a park ranger at Rocky for a while. Her faves: What time do you turn off the waterfalls? At what age do the deer become elk? Where do we go to meet Smokey the Bear? (as if he were a Disney mascot character attraction). 5. From Winiri: I lived with some Japanese exchange students during the final summer of college. They were really nice girls, but one of them (Mari) (~19 years old) obviously had no idea how anything worked. She spoke the best English and I was tutoring some of the other girls, while they helped me with my Japanese.  But Mari would constantly call me to come to get her because she thought we had free buses (all the buses). After all, we were students. That wasn&#39;t the issue. I could deal with that. It was a whole new culture. She was learning.  But what happened that made me realize Mari could not be left on her own was when she ended up in Eloy, Arizona. Which was ~400 miles and five hours from where we were. She had been talking to some guy on campus, he said he was visiting family in Arizona, and she said &quot;I want to go.&quot;  He just took her with him, and she went without even telling us. She had just assumed the guy would take her back, but he said he couldn&#39;t because he was staying in Arizona. So I had to arrange a ticket, get her on the bus via the phone, and then pick her up two hours away because she missed her second bus by napping. 6. From _SCHULTZY_: I had a friend who was in some uncredited scam online college for her master&#39;s degree in medical billing or some dumb shit. She was on a loan program that was sending her about $5k every 3 months directly to her via check in the mail.  This was her only source of income. She kept calling it a grant that didn&#39;t need to be paid back. She was flat ass broke as a joke for 2 months but then the check would come in and she would be living the good life for a few weeks before being poor again.  We tried to do an intervention and show her the insane interest rate that would be back dated as soon as her &quot;school&quot; was done but she didn&#39;t want anyone to bust her free money dreams.  She just kept talking about all the money she would eventually be making billing insurance companies...turns out she wasn&#39;t even logging in to the online college or even attempting to get this degree. She thought the money was free, the degree was automatic and the job was guaranteed. Some people are beyond help. 7. From Caladan109: Listening to a faulty new car story when it turned out the woman (42) was driving for 7 months with the hand brake on the whole time. 8. From TheBrohannes: My boss told me about a friend of his, who told him af a &quot;life hack&quot;. She would get her bills in the mail, NOT pay them, and then wait a couple of months to pay. Then she would cry so the debt collectors would feel bad and waive the fees for not paying on time. That was her &quot;brilliant life hack.&quot; 9. From hlfpint: The other day, my 18-year-old brother-in-law got married to his high school sweetheart in a parking garage so that they can live off campus at college together. HIs girlfriend&#39;s, now wife, mother is an ordained minister. His parents, my in-laws, were very upset and he couldn&#39;t understand why because &quot;it&#39;s just a fake marriage for school&quot;. Oh no, sweet boy. You are MARRIED. I just laughed and laughed. I love him dearly. He is a dumba*s. 10. From BigDerryAir: A dude (18 year-old) in boot camp got a letter from home and I can see he is agitated. Being 22 and concerned for his well-being, I asked him if he wanted to talk about it. (I&rsquo;m thinking a Dear John letter or the Mom and Dad divorcing letter.) He dead a*s told me that his younger brother got a Mercedes for his birthday and that he was pissed bc he &ldquo;only got a BMW&rdquo;. I can&rsquo;t remember what I said, but I knew boot camp was gonna knock his dick in the dirt. (It did.) 11. From Zoomyboomy: When my roommate, who never once paid for rent or groceries or anything, turned down the only job offer they have ever gotten, in front of me, TWICE. They were so desperate they called him twice, offering good pay, during covid, and he had the gal to say no in front of me. His excuse was &quot;nah I&#39;m sure there&#39;s something better. $20 an hour is garbage in this city&quot; -_- 12. From Toast-Master-General: When looking for somewhere to rent after university halls, one of my mates was annoyed because he didn&rsquo;t like the lounge in the house his parents BOUGHT HIM OUTRIGHT to live in. 13. From sassyla: My mom was spontaneously in the city I live in and asked me to meet her for supper. I told her I was on the bus and it would take me 45 minutes to get to her, even though in a car it would be a 15 minute drive. She said &quot;just tell the bus driver to bring you here now.&quot; She has no concept of how public transportation works. 14. From cleaning-meaning: I worked for a very sheltered and entitled Mother as a nanny.  Shortly after I got hired she called me at 3AM asking me to come in because the baby wouldn&rsquo;t stop crying. When I said no, she responded with &ldquo;but you&rsquo;re the nanny!&rdquo;.  And that was a constant thing. At one point she got sick of breastfeeding and asked if I could start nursing. All of this was very casual too. Like she wasn&rsquo;t really mean about it. 15. From Bithame: Back at the end of university I met up with my rich friend who just a got a brand new car from his dad worth +- &pound;60,000 after getting his driving license...so naturally we went for a ride. At one point he asked me &#39;what are you going to do after uni?&#39; to which I answered &#39;find a job in XYZ whilst investing/slowly growing side incomes&#39;. He got very confused then and asked me &#39;but why do you need a job? Can&#39;t you just start your business?&#39;. He had no idea of the struggle to pay bills and think about your budget etc... 16. From opwanderer: My old roommate was only paying $25 on her credit cards every month, but was putting almost every purchase on them. I felt so bad explaining to her that she was now in credit card debt. 17. From idontdigdinosaurs: A first year college student of mine thought that assignment deadlines were guidelines. Nothing was handed in on time. She emailed me the night before her final exam to see if I&rsquo;d take some of her late work. I told her hell no. She threatened to report me. I let her. She failed, got reprimanded and was eventually expelled due to plagiarism. 18. From WeddingElly: &ldquo;It&rsquo;s like free money&rdquo; in response to any kind of financing or borrowing (car financing, student loans, credit cards, home equity line of credit). 19. From MissReanimator:  Two things immediately come to mind. First being a young girl I used to work with at Target. She was hired for the 6am-2:30pm shift, but she regularly showed up between 8-9am without any good explanation. After the third time or so, our supervisor asked her if she had something to do in the morning, such as getting kids ready for school, that required a later shift? If so, she could be moved to the 8am-4:30pm shift. The girl&#39;s response was, &quot;No, I still want to leave at 2:30. I just don&#39;t want to get up that early.&quot; She was fired when she refused to acknowledge that you cannot make your own schedule.  Second is one of my roommates. A 23-year-old who is quite literally unable to take care of herself in any capacity beyond ordering fast food. I once heard her yell at her mother because she was filling out a job application and got stuck on a section. Her mom was trying to help her finish but she got frustrated and screamed, &quot;Can&#39;t you just fill it out? I want to go play my games.&quot; Before you ask, no. There are no disabilities. She&#39;s just lazy, spoiled and incredibly stupid. 20. From EarhornJones: We had a relatively new hire where I work, a young woman relatively fresh out of college. Because we had been colleagues in another department when she was interning, she ate often ate lunch with me.  She frequently complained about how bad her coworkers were. I didn&#39;t know them, but it seemed odd. After about a year, she applied for, and got a different job at the company, but the new job didn&#39;t start for 2 months.  She asked me if I thought she should take a leave of absence until then, because she didn&#39;t think she could stand working 2 more months with her current coworkers.  I asked what they were doing that was making her so unhappy. She complained that they often told their mutual boss that she would come in late, take very long lunches, then leave early. &quot;Do you do those things?&quot; I asked. &quot;Well, yes, but they don&#39;t have to be birches about it,&quot; she replied. 