Reddit user u/Jasper Midnight asked the AskReddit community, "What is the stupidest thing you've heard someone say that they were 100% serious about?"
You can probably guess that there were A TON of responses, with some that will make you laugh, others that will make you cringe, and a few that will make you stare blankly at an imaginary camera like you're on Abbott Elementary.
1. "I was on the way to NYC with a friend and she said 'Omg I can't wait to see the Eiffel Tower! I'm so excited!'"
2. "We were at a baby shower for my wife in April. My niece's boyfriend asked when she was due and I told him that she was due in July. He actually asked us, 'This July?'"
3. "I don't have an email, I have a gmail."
4. "How can Hawaii and Alaska have such different temperatures when they are right next to each other on the map?"
5. "Fish aren't animals, they're mammals."
6. "Can you email me back the PDF I emailed you? It’s my only copy."
7. "A guide dog's job is to drive the car for the blind person."
8. "A professor in college refused to give back our tests because 'you should know what you did wrong.'"
9. "'Women can control their periods.' This person legitimately thought that the blood can just be sucked back in."
10. "You have to understand, I'm not a vibrational match for car accidents, so we'll be safer if I drive."
11. "During a work meeting about counterfeit money, one of my coworkers said she sometimes saw 'Puerto Rican coins' in the cash drawer. (Our place of work is in the US) It got quiet and you could hear crickets. Our area manager was baffled and turned to her before saying, 'Puerto Rico is a US territory… they use the same money.'"
12. "At one of my first jobs as a graphic designer, a client called me into his office and pulled up a photo he took. He then asked me if I could 'turn it around.' No, not rotate it, but turn the viewpoint around. He wanted to see what was behind the camera when he originally took the photo…."
13. "My old roommate said that when the weather app says 50% rain, that meant half of all the rain in the sky is going to fall...80% meant 80% of all the rain possible would fall...100% rain? Yup, every single last drop of rain is coming down today."
14. "Yeah bro, it says carbonated because they removed the carbs."
15. "I was on a date at an art museum. The painting tag said 'made circa 1600' and she said, 'Do you think the earth was even around back then? You just never really know.'"
16. "Are you from China or are you from Asia?"
17. "I work for a cell phone company and someone seriously thought that 5G towers were causing and distributing COVID."
18. "Blueberry muffins you buy premade don't have any blueberries in them because blueberries cost too much. They just dye bees blue because they have the same texture and use them instead."
19. "Australia is 7 days ahead of the rest of the world."
20. "I work in construction and my rigger told me he doesn't believe in gravity. Mind you, his job is to rig tens of thousands of pounds of steel so it doesn't fall when moving it with a crane."
21. And finally, "At age 27, my friend said that he had gotten into a fight with his girlfriend because he knew that his parents didn't have to have sex to conceive him, his mom got pregnant with him because they got married."
Submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.