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[Guest]

Not a silly question but a lovely memory all the same.........

 

When my son was about 2 we visited my sisters house in Ireland. It is in fact a bungalow; one day we were going out and my nephew Luke said to my son Harry - "sit on the bottom stair and i'll help you put your shoes on" ( this is what he did at home) and HArry duly wandered around looking for the stair to sit on! We still all smile about it to this day!

[chickweed]

I received an email which said " If you don't receive this email, would you contact me on ........ "

 

And I had a teacher who would say "If you can't hear me at the back of the hall, would you raise your hands".

[fluffy chick]

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.

I'm a teacher too, the best one I can remember is when a student asked 'so why is it called the hilarious bone?' I said 'I think you mean the humerus'

 

I also recall an A level biology student (very bright) who thought the uterus was in the eye. Obviously we didn't let him live that one down for a while

[surfer_chicken]

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

 

I keep getting asked if we can still eat our eggs now we have a cockerel

[Cinnamon]

My favourite was at work.

 

'If I pay by cash,can I get cashback?'

 

or

 

'Can you add Tesco Clubcard points on here?'

 

or

 

'I can't just use my husbands credit card & sign my name,then? Why not?

 

or ' but WHY can't I have my requested £40 cashback in £1 coins?'

 

The daughter & I have a weekly competition on which of us gets asked the stupidest question

Honestly,some people shouldn't be let out amongst the general public at large

[snowberry]

In the Food Hall where I used to work; people couldn't ever find the eggs; not in baking as you would expect, but with the chickens...people thought I was narky when I said they were there so I had to take them round to them (even though I wasn't supposed to leave my post)

[soapdragon]

Before having our two boys our hobby was re enacting seventeenth cent. living history and we had some hysterical questions......I was slicing up a loaf outside our tent (to go with the pottage simmering in a cauldron over the fire) when a well dressed and beautifuly spoken middle aged lady asked me what I was doing. I explained and she thought for a moment then said 'Did they have bread in the 17th cent?'

 

When lining up for the ladies loos at the Newbury Show in full kit I was asked how I went to the loo - OK maybe not THAT silly a question but did catch me out!

 

A small group (about 5 of us, male and female in full 17th cent kit) popped into a Tesco in Gloucester to stock up on, ehhm, liquid supplies and, even though the shop was heaving, no one batted an eyelid (very British!!) However, when lining up at the till the lady in front of me looked round at me, did a double take and said' Wow, you must have been here for ages'!! Which did tickle me!!!!

 

As a bit of a joke I had an authentic looking slipware chamberpot which I used to leave behind the tent with a fake 'unmentionable but widely available from joke shops' in . One day a teenage boy came up to me in front of the tent holding said unmentionable in the palm of his hand and said 'Is this yours?' To which I replied, quite truthfully as I had bought and paid for it, 'Yes': 'Oh' he said and carefully replaced it in the chamber pot and wandered off

 

We would quite often sit round the fire in the evenings comparing daft remarks - actually I DO miss it!

[snowberry]

Was that Kentwell?

[Geoid]

At work, in full lifeguard uniform including name badge, whistle, etc standing on poolside, customer says "do you work here?"

[chuckmum6]

My SIL asked how much something cost in Poundland!

[surfer_chicken]

My SIL asked how much something cost in Poundland!

 

One of my friends worked in Poundland for a while and was asked this on a daily basis

[squiffs]

My boss' wife asked me the other day, when I gave her some green eggs from my skyline, 'oh that one does funny coloured ones doesn't it! is that a male or female chicken?'

 

my desktop background is some chickens in their run, with an iceberg lettuce to one side, my supervisor spotted the picture and went 'awwwww!' and then said 'is that a chicken!?' - I replied 'no. that's a lettuce.'

[soapdragon]

Snowberry, sadly not Kentwell! Would love to have done that one but it never fitted in with time off work!

 

A 'punter' picked up a knife from our table in front of the tent and asked 'is that a knife?' well, they havn't changed much in 350 years ! As I was about to put a spoonfull of pottage in my mouth I was asked 'are you going to eat that?' 'Yes' I replied 'its my lunch'......'Oooh, I didn't know they had meat then' came the reply.

 

Mind you, it worked the other way round...a re enactor friend was using my longbow and a member of the public was closely questioning him and obviously knew his subject. My freind enquired 'so, do you shoot yourself?' Answer; 'I try not to; it hurts!'

[memphisto]

My SIL asked how much something cost in Poundland!

 

One of my friends worked in Poundland for a while and was asked this on a daily basis

 

 

My cousin works in Poundland and she gets asked that every day along with 'Do you have to pay in pound coins here or will notes/cards etc be OK?'

[Guest]

 

A small group (about 5 of us, male and female in full 17th cent kit) popped into a Tesco in Gloucester to stock up on, ehhm, liquid supplies and, even though the shop was heaving, no one batted an eyelid (very British!!) However, when lining up at the till the lady in front of me looked round at me, did a double take and said' Wow, you must have been here for ages'!! Which did tickle me!!!!

 

Hahahahaha

 

I often dress as a Georgian lady at work as a costumed guide and wish I had a pound for every customer who says..

"Oh - you're looking good for your age - hahaha"

"Oh - you're not a dummy then?"

 

Oh - I've never heard that one before sir/madam!

[Angie]

My EDs friend asked how do the cockerals fertilise the eggs for chicks to develope inside the shell ?

She thought the cockerals did the job the same way as fish......we just looked at her and had to laugh . "Der no .They have sex." ED told her, she was genuinely shocked and couldn't get her head around it at all , not even with a chickie book and pictures , nope she just won't have it.

[squiffs]

I have to admit when I look up how chickens have sex I found it a bit bizarre. I haven't seen it, so in my head I still can't work out how it 'happens' physically. The biology textbook style descriptions just make me go

[Couperwife]

A few years ago, me and kev went to Alwnick Castle (Harry Potter - film 1) was we were merrily wondering around the courtyard we heard this American woman who was a little older than us as if they has put the statues on the top of the castle as they knew they were going to have visitors

 

I walked away...

 

cathy

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[Ain't Nobody Here]

My OH was in a restaurant (years ago now) and heard a middle aged American couple at the next table:

 

him: "Gatux? What's gatux"

 

her: "I think that's cake, honey"

[surfer_chicken]

When we went to see the London eye, you get to watch a 4D film beforehand. Anyway, in the queue for the film was a American man and his little boy. The boy asked "Dad, what's 4D?" to which the dad replied (sounding incredibly confident and virtually shouting it to the rest of the queue) "Well son, 3D is when it's on 3 walls and 4D is when it's on 4 walls."

 

That's still makes us laugh to this day

[Christian]

*On board the aircraft*

 

Me - 'Would you like a chicken sandwich or cheese'?

The passenger - 'Tuna'.....

Me - 'Erm, sorry, we don't have tuna, the choice is chicken or cheese'

The Passenger - 'well, why don't you have tuna'?

Me - '....because we are in a hollow tube, flying through the air at 37,000 feet and I only have chicken or cheese'....

The Passenger - 'oh, ok then, just get me some hot buttered toast.........'

[Cinnamon]

Working with the general public....always a joy

[Geoid]

Working with the general public....always a joy

My thoughts exactly!

[KimmyCustard]

Brilliant!

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

 

I work at the Castle now Cinnamon, where did your parents live?! Were they within the Castle or in Home Park private?