Do you remember any clueless moments you have had throughout your life?

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I remember I had Tummy Ache and my Grandmother asked me when did I last move my Bowels.
I had no idea what that meant and she gruffly said, "What are they teaching you at School"?
I remember being fitted for a suit for my school leavers dinner and the male store keeper asked me, "What side do you dress on"?
Blank stare from me.
He told me what it meant and I said, "It doesn't, it just sticks out" šŸ˜©
I remember at sex education class in middle school, the teacher started talking about Oral Sex. My reaction was, "Is talking about it considered sex"? šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø
 

My great grandmother's morning greeting on the farm was "how are your bowels moving today". I was six and always said fine, thinking she was asking how I was doing, not knowing what she was talking about. One morning I might not have slept well and I simply replied, " not so good" She said come on in the house, she mixed some soap in a tin cup and I was thinking "Oh no I'm not drinking that" OMG I never heard of an enema before and I sat on the toilet for half an hour. They never taught that in school!
 

I remember some. My dad, busy, stressed, and tired from work, was a family provider ā€” also an authoritarian who rarely explained anything in terms his sons could really understand. Simply a quick-tempered man who gave orders. He also used some stock precepts and adages... like "to thine own self be true". Tough for a 10 year old to make practical sense of. Even a 15 year old boy is likely to think 'I feel like I'm always true to what I want to do'.

I'm sure I can think of some other instances of cluelessness. But a much later one happened in 1986 when, after years of having jobs with no computer element to them, I wound up with one where I needed to do things on a DOS-based computer. No point-and-click icons like we all use today. Boy, I was lost!šŸ˜³ For a while, hardly knew what to do... many miserable episodes. LOL
 
I was about fifty, at a festival had two women offer a threesome with me. I politely said no thanks and went on with my evening. The next day one of the other girls heard what I had done and asked why. I said, It is not easy to make one woman orgasm, I would not know what to do with two. She laughed and said " No Honey it was just those two wanting to please you. Clueless Me, I missed a new experience!
 
Couple of semesters of cluelessness at the University of Montevallo in 71/72
The parties with ATO fraternity brothers weren't bad though
My cluelessness was rewarded with failing grades and academic probation
To this day I'm still pretty much clueless about calculus and college level chemistry
 
Seems a lot of the time when I was stationed 'oversea', felt clueless with those tiny translation books.
Would buy one for the countries I was at, but never could get the hang of them.
The things I really wanted translated were not in the books.

Europe was bad, but Africa was just a non-starter. (So many languages in one country, you probably needed more books
than I could carry.)
 
When I was in high school I went to someoneā€™s house to buy some weed. There was a pretty pink glass thing on the table. The people saw me looking at it and asked if I wanted to feel it. By the smirks on their faces I decided not to. It took me years to discover what it actually was.

Truthfully I have had thousands of clueless moments. Iā€™d be pretty arrogant to think I didnā€™t.
 
PeppermintPatty said:
When I was in high school I went to someoneā€™s house to buy some weed. There was a pretty pink glass thing on the table. The people saw me looking at it and asked if I wanted to feel it. By the smirks on their faces I decided not to. It took me years to discover what it actually was.

Truthfully I have had thousands of clueless moments. Iā€™d be pretty arrogant to think I didnā€™t.
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Well now I'm curious! PM me if you don't wanna say in public. ;)
 
PeppermintPatty said:
When I was in high school I went to someoneā€™s house to buy some weed. There was a pretty pink glass thing on the table. The people saw me looking at it and asked if I wanted to feel it. By the smirks on their faces I decided not to. It took me years to discover what it actually was.

Truthfully I have had thousands of clueless moments. Iā€™d be pretty arrogant to think I didnā€™t.
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NOT FAIR, WHAT WAS IT?????.
 
First year at university in 1960. I was fresh out of a girls high school and innocent as a new born lamb. I chose a science course of Chemistry, Physics, Maths and Geology, all male dominated subjects back then.

I was fascinated by Geology and loved every minute of the course. At the end of the year the lecturer was explaining what we would be required to do for a practical exam that involved some geological mapping and identification of a selection of rock and mineral samples.

He asked, "Are there any questions?"
My hand went up.

In a clear, loud voice I asked him, "Yes, what's it worth?"
Every male in the room, including the lecturer, burst out laughing.
 
During a meeting of the company board of directors I was asked a really odd question completely off the discussion topic. I tried to think quickly not wanting to appear poorly with my new peers. After a moment, I replied, "I don't know the answer to that question but you will hear back from me after I do some research". It turned out to be that absolutely perfect answer since the individual was in a sense testing me. It turned out to be total nonsense but I definitely got back to him.
 

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