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[patsylabrador]

I heard similar on XFM this morning and it reminded me of a question my daughter was asked which is really very funny when you think about it.

If you don't know the Long Walk between Windsor Castle and the Copper Horse, it is a dead straight carriageway built for the entertainment of a royal lady. The castle and the horse are at each end of the walk which is roughly 2.5 miles each way and are clearly visible.

DD was asked by a visitor if there was a short cut they could take. She was a bit nonplussed.

[Cinnamon]

Brilliant!

I know the walk well.....my Mum used to live at the Castle,& the view between the 2 landmarks is so striking

[Snowy]

I've seen that walk as well

 

As part of my job I do eyesight testing and prior to testing I have to find out whether or not the individual already wears glasses. It becomes a bit routine after a while and several times I've asked the question, only to realise they are actually wearing the glasses.

[chickencam]

My YD asked some daft questions, she is a total daydream and off in her own world most of the time. She makes us laugh on a daily basis. She asked this evening what Alzheimers was and as I started to explain, she said 'Oh is it like nostalgia'? This was one of her less funny ones, i will share if she comes up with anymore gems. My other daughter on the other hand is just like George Bush and makes up her own words which can be very funny sometimes too.

[Olly]

You mean apart from 'so how do you get eggs if you don't have a cockerel'?

[snowberry]

An ex-neighbour of mine was as mad as a hatter & I took her to buy some new glasses one day. The optician tried to interest her in 'buy one get one free'. Neighbour insisted she didn't want the paid glasses but wanted the free ones;

I was asked once if York was anywhere near Yorkshire

[memphisto]

My younger sister came out with one which still makes me giggle. When the actress who played Blanche in Coronation St died, she asked,'Will she be coming back to Coronation Street do you think?'

 

My ex husband never used to do a lot of driving, so when on the way back from Swansea to Cardiff, we exited the motorway at a junction which had the raised lines on the road and in all seriousness, he ask me 'are those lines there to alert blind drivers there's a roundabout coming up?'

[memphisto]

When taking my son to nursery, they had a student from the local college, she was lovely, took the baby in and she asked 'is that a baby?', followed by 'does she cry at all?'

[kazmac]

I had a good one just a couple of weeks ago and felt like an idiot. It's not funny, really .....

When I was talking to the shocked driver after a lady had been knocked down on my way to work, he mentioned his boss and the van (involved in the accident) in something he was saying. I asked him who he worked for and he pointed to the side of the van where his company name was emblazoned ..... about 3 feet from where we were standing!

I felt really stupid ......

 

I love the 'short cut' story above!

[Alis girls]

One for the ladies here - ladies coming for smears - the classic "shall I take my knickers off?" the urge to say sarkily "it helps" is always there instead I just say "please" The other is the diabetic foot check - when asking pts if I can check their feet - most say "both?" - again I could be sarky but always reply "please" - betcha bottom dollar the one | don't check will be the one with a gangrenous toe joys of nursing - I could write a book.

[Ain't Nobody Here]

On holiday a couple of years ago, YS wanted to charge his phone. I said "there's a socket in the wall in the dining room".

 

He responded "where's the wall?".

 

It's become a catchphrase in our household .

[Daphne]

Brilliant!

I know the walk well.....my Mum used to live at the Castle,& the view between the 2 landmarks is so striking

 

Silly Question number 1: 'Is your Mum the Queen?'

[Looney]

My son comes out with classics daily, but can be excused as he's only three and a half! Yesterday his Daddy said he had to go to a different office for a meeting and son looked serious and asked "Will there be rabbits there?" Erm.... He also asked if snakes poo through their eyes. And if Jake the Peg has special trousers.

 

I used to work in a bakery. We sold two sizes of egg custard, 45p and 90p. Often people would ask for one 90p egg custard and then say "How much is that?"

 

A friend of mine was commenting how many people ask whether her twins (a boy and a girl) are identical!

[The Dogmother]

"do you sell pink chickens?!

 

(Anyone who knows my colour dislikes will find this funny)

 

"can you keep mini-pigs in your living room?"... strangely this was brought up on a poultry keeping course I was giving

[Cinnamon]

Brilliant!

I know the walk well.....my Mum used to live at the Castle,& the view between the 2 landmarks is so striking

 

Silly Question number 1: 'Is your Mum the Queen?'

 

 

'course not - you don't have to be The Queen to live in the Castle (or you didn't,back then)

They rented out apartments in the grounds for people to live in.

The downside is that there was a curfew,so everyone had to be home by 11pm as the gates were secured - not great for my then dating Mum & Dad!

[ClaireG]

Asked by a nurse in hospital recently about my son. If he has a half brother does that mean they are not related then!

[sage]

Last week my SIL was telling me about her birthday and what she was getting. Without thinking I asked "When is your twin sisters birthday then". :

Sage

[LisaP]

I spent my teenage years living in Windsor and worked there later so know the Long Walk well and that story reminded me of one my late mum in law told me.

 

She had a friend who worked at the Theatre Royal and she overheard an American tourist comment to her friend how she wondered why the Queen had built her castle so close to Heathrow as it was so noisy when the planes flew over

 

Lisa P

[chickencam]

When I was 20 years old I went to the family planning clinic for the morning after pill and as part of the consultation with the nurse she asked me if 'I felt pregnant', bearing in mind the morning after pill can only be taken within 72 hours and that I had never been pregnant before, how was I too know?

 

Sorry if this upsets any nurses but it did amuse us at the time.

[Alis girls]

No CC we too ask silly questions - it normally breaks the ice with the patients and we have a giggle. Certainly doesnt offend me - I am a mistress of silly questions and useless info

[Goosey Lucy]

Overheard in lunch queue at YS's Primary School the other day:

"Oo, sausage casserole. Are there sausages in that?"

Although with the way school meals are going, maybe it wasn't such a silly question after all...

[Alis girls]

Was this from a child or teacher?

[Goosey Lucy]

A child, so maybe excusable. She is 10 years old though...

[Guest]

We get some crackers at work......I work in Chatham Historic Dockyard as a Tour Guide, the site is 80 acres in size - which is third of what the Dockyard was when it closed. It is open to the river Medway on one side and the elements all around, and the wind blows directly from the north pole! Some of the corkers are-

 

Why is it not undercover?

You should have built things closer together!

Did you build ships here?

Where's the sea?

You should have more heating!

I don't see why I should pay to get in - I'm local!

 

The most popular question when people arrive is "where's the toilet?".....a colleague memorably greeted people one day with the line..... "left for tea - right for a pee".

 

I love my job and it's a wonderful place to work and to visit!

[chuckmum6]

On the teacher note, both OH and I are teachers, he was teaching a Y6 class about space.......

A child came up and asked "Are there rings around your anus (meaning Uranus)?"

OH replied "Not around mine" both he and the boy giggled for ages.