I was given a $100 gift certificate for a massage one year for my birthday. I chose a service that was exactly $100. As I was checking out: Girl at the counter: Would you like to add a gratuity? Me: yes, 20 Girl: . dollars or percent??? Me: um, either one, they're both the same Girl: um, I need you to tell me which one!!! Me: the bill is one hundred dollars. 20% is the same as $20 since the total is $100. Girl: looks at me like I'm a total moron, sneers and then types into her computer. Her face showed utter shock when her computer screen agreed with me.

On a map, is the blue part the water or the sky?

I told one of my classmates I got malaria when I was a baby and she was like, "Oh my god?! Did you survive??"

A buddy of mine asked me how could there be so many pilots flying planes at the same time. Confused, I asked him what the hell he was talking about. He then told me ( with a dead serious face) that all the little lights in the night sky were planes but he was amazed at how many flights were going on at once. I then informed him, much to his shock, that all those little lights in the night sky were stars. Couldn't make this shit up if I wanted to.

While watching Frozen with a group of friends, my brothers girlfriend, 30 minutes in looks confused and upset and looks me in my eyes and asks "If their parents died, are they still sisters?". She had been thinking about it for 30 minutes. I had to console her and let her know that if her parents died, her sister would still be her sister.

Girl I knew was telling another girl how she was born at home rather than the hospital, she looked shocked and genuinely asked, with no sarcasm whatsoever, "was your Mum there too?", I was flabbergasted to say the least - we were around 15

Did Rome exist during the time of ancient Rome? No, Ashley, Rome didn't exist when Rome existed.

I had someone ask the teacher in science class why fire wasn't on the periodic table. Now, that wouldn't be stupid except for the fact that he proceeded to argue his point that fire is an element until the teacher started ignoring him.

I overheard someone asking how many quarters were in a dollar. I'm in college.

While explaining that there is a job for just about everyone in the army, even people that don't really have a job in mind can just go infantry. "You.. You mean I can have babies for the army?"

I'm a girl, and I had very short hair when I start high school. By my junior year, it was long enough that I kept it up in a ponytail 96% of the time. A girl stops me in the hallway. "Are you not gay anymore?" Me: ???? Her: well, I mean, you grew your hair out...

Lived in Louisiana for 2 years. Worked at a department store. A grown woman asked me "so what are you? Black or white?" .....I'm Asian. I was the first Asian she met.

A girl in my high school class once asked the teacher how to spell her (own) name S U Z Y

"Were there people 500 years ago?" My friend asked me this today. She's a senior in high school. Who is in honors classes.

Me: Yea..uh...how much is the ten dollar one? Cashier: You serious?? My friends won't let me forget that one.

Someone in my science class thought whales were the males and dolphins were females. We were 14 at the time.

My wife once asked me if the clouds were behind the moon, because there was light cloud cover and you could see the moon through the clouds.astronomer She failed astronomy in high school, in case you were wondering.