Thread: There IS such thing as a dumb question. Add your own!

When I was teaching software classes, I always told my students that "When you are learning somthing new, there is no such thing as a dumb question". I would then give them these examples of REAL dumb questions.

When I was a waitress, I actually had people ask me these questions:

6 am on a weekday: "Do you have any coffee this morning?"
What I wanted to say:"No, I'm sorry, Juan Valdez and his burro haven't made it down off the mountain yet. I'll be sure and let you know when they arrive".

Early on a Satuday morning I got this one: "Do you have any eggs this morning"
What I wanted to say: "No I'm sorry, we used all the Chickens in the Chicken and Dumplin's for lunch yesterday, there weren't any left to lay eggs for this morning".

Unless you are from Texas, you may not get this one, but I had several "yankees" (non-Texans) ask if they could get gravy on their Chicken Fried Steak. I was too stunned to come up with a smart-a** answer for this one!

Anyone have any other good "DUMB QUESTIONS"?

I HAVE ALWAYS HAD GRAVY ON MY CFS! LIVED IN TX FOR 18 YRS NOW, BORN IN PA. IN PA, THEY HAVE NO CLUE WHAT CFS IS!! I'LL THINK OF SOME QUESTIONS FOR YA..I'M A RECEPTIONIST, I HEAR THEM ALL DAY

"was that a wreck?"

don't ask. I'll tell anyway to save you the trouble.

We were riding on the freeway one night and I was looking out the passenger side window daydreaming. out of my peripheral vision i saw coming towards us on the freeway: headlights/taillights/headlights/taillights/headlights/taillights/headlights/taillights BOOM INTO THE WALL-OF-DEATH SMOKE & FIRE BILLOWING OUT OF THE CAR then i jsut had to turn to dahubby and saw "was that a wreck?"

so now, if i experience an exceptionally blonde moment, dahubby will just ask me

"WAS THAT A WRECK?"

I used to work in a small grocery store when I was in HS ... on year we made the decsion to open half a day on Thanksgiving ... I had about 50 people call who when I answered the phone, asked "Are you open ? "

I said "No."


One smart cookie asked "If you are closed, why are you answering the phone ?"

I, being ever the sm@rt@ss, replied : " Oh, they forwarded the line to my house, then they don't have to pay me overtime or Holiday pay."

He thought that was sad, wished me a "Happy Thanksgiving" and hung up ...

Had to giggle, Capt. I never heard anyone else call that thing a wall-of-death!

I HATE this dumb question. When you have to break the news that someone has died, inevitably they will say, "You're kidding???"

Yea, duh, it's a joke, I was kidding.

That drives me NUTS!

Raven - that's what I say all the time when my kids (or the hubby) ask what's for dinner. When I say food, they say "Well, duh, what kind of food?" I say, "Edible."

The other one I love is "Mom, where are we going?" My answer: "Crazy" My son laughs and says that we can't go there. Well, then I say "I guess not 'cause we're already there." ...lol

Originally posted by CHERNL
Had to giggle, Capt. I never heard anyone else call that thing a wall-of-death!

if you drive closely to it, with your window down, you can hear the screams of those who have passed by it before.......