Things People Were Actually Convinced Of

These have been going around the Internet the last few weeks.  I can find multiple sources: not clear on the origin of them all.  Some of them likely are decades old.

"Tried to explain to a graduate student, who was a few days from defending her Master's thesis, that she didn't have to take her BMW to the dealer because the water stopped coming out of the windshield wipers. She could buy a bottle of fluid for like $1-$2 and just refill it. She bought the bottle of fluid at an auto parts store and poured it into the gas tank."

"If they worked for 7.8 hours it does not mean they are getting paid for 7 hours and 8 minutes.... I had to explain this to an adult multiple times!"

"If there is a disabled person in the car riding with me, I get to use park in a space for the handicapped. The disabled person doesn't actually have to drive, they just have to be in the car. I'm not making my disabled aunt walk across the parking lot just because I drove and you cannot figure out that a car fits more than one person."

"When you get your food to go, walk outside in freezing weather,drive 30 minutes home, the food will be cold. Don't call the restaurant and complain because you don't understand the laws of thermodynamics."

"I spent 30 minutes explaining to my mother why she can't connect her tablet to her home wifi while she's at work."

"During dinner, I told my 23 year old, recent college graduate brother, that I was planning on making pickles when we got home. He looked at me dumbfounded with a eye wide eyed stare. I had to explain to him that pickles did not grow out of the ground as pickles, and are in fact, cucumbers."

"I had to explain to my cousin that it is called an ash tray, not as ass tray. He didn't believe me, but had sound logic. He said "but then why are they called cigarette butts?".

"That it was World War I and World War II, not War War I and War War II."

"That people in Africa are not "African-American."

"That islands don't float, you cannot dive/swim underneath them, that they are attached to the ocean floor."

"To a girl at work, that Nelson Mandela and Morgan Freeman aren't the same person."

"That compass directions are in fact NOT just alternatives to simple directions relative to the user. As in, she thought North was just another word for forward."

"Vietnam is the name of a country, and not just the name of a war.  She kept insisting I wasn't old enough to have gone there, and was utterly confused that I said I went there- for a vacation, no less-two years ago."

"Had to explain to a guy that if 4 builders built a wall and took 4 hours, that 6 builders building the wall would not take 6 hours." (THIS IS WHY YOU PAY ATTENTION IN MATHS CLASS)

"El Niño isn't a Latino pop star."

"My older brother (age 20) asked me whether ice cubes goes into the stomach, or if they go "in the stomach for liquids". I kindly had to explain him, than humans only have one stomach where both liquids and solids go."

"That the Holocaust was not a person."