‘Ohh, So That’s What It Was For’ Moments That Took People To Long To Find Out

what was your ohh so that's what it was for a moment that took you too long to find out those little green swords at starbucks i had no clue what they were used for until i was complaining one day that my coffee gets all over the lid when i walk my friend grabbed one and stuck it in the top of the lid and asked why i didn't use a stopper a stopper omg my life has just changed also how starbucks loyalty program is to collect stars to earn free coffee those bucks made of stars really add up over time not me but my dad he always likes to look nice and put together one day before church i was maybe 14 i asked him if he had a lint roller he got it for me and it was absolutely covered in lint so i ripped off the top sheet dad's eyes widened in shock i always thought lint rollers were so expensive for how few times you could use them he never knew there were more sheets underneath dad was in his mid 50s then he hates when i tell that story he's gonna really love it when he finds out you can just buy replacement rolls to put on the plastic thing so you don't have to pay for a new one each time not sure if this is a feature on all smoke detectors but finally after five years of owning my house and getting used to grabbing a chair and knocking the batteries out of it i just hit the test button on the front when it went off while cooking push mode activated it turns it off for 15 minutes and automatically turns itself back on it felt like unlocking a secret character in mortal kombat but then how will you know when your food is done for years i have had this electrical outlet on my back porch that is really intermittent dang thing works about half the time then stops working for a couple of weeks frustrating about six years after i bought the house i also figured out what that one switch in the living room does when i was a little kid maybe three years old i found a little plastic container of candy in my mom's purse and i ate them all my mom discovered this and started panicking and screaming apparently i'd eaten an entire month's worth of birth control pills she called poison control and they told her i'd be fine though my hair might grow slowly for a while it's been 30 years and i'm still bald damn it maybe this is what happened to kalyan you know the plastic hooks on vacuum cleaners that are used to wind the cord around well the top hook will spin 180 degrees to release the cord so you don't have to spend time unwinding didn't realize this till my wife showed me well into my 30s this is going to give me seconds back to my life thank you it took me four years of owning a car to realize i could spray washer fluid onto the rear windshield i just assumed it only sprayed the front and i would just occasionally throw a bucket of water on the back if i needed to then one day i just noticed an odd symbol on a lever i hadn't seen before held that mother down for about 10 seconds before a massive gush of liquid burst out the back and changed my life for the better held that mother down for about 10 seconds before a massive gush of liquid burst out the back and changed my life for the better are not context went into a store and purchased a nice suit for work but forgot to bring the coupon i was going to use i asked about it while checking out and the girl told me she's sorry but can't help me she then placed the same coupon on the counter and asked if i had dropped it i must have been distracted because i denied that it was mine three times before i finally understood she was trying to be nice and give me a coupon it felt really dumb have you guys seen those escalators with the green lights shining through the steps when i was very young maybe five or six years old i asked my dad what those lights were for he told me they were for the blind a few years ago maybe when i was about 23 or 24 i got on one of those escalators with lights again with a friend of mine i wanted to tell my friend this little fact that my dad told me years ago about the lights and the escalators but as soon as i wanted to explain i realized my dad was trolling me the whole time it took me just under 20 years to realize it as a kid my dad always had an answer for every single question i asked about any topic i always thought he's the smartest guy ever but like your story i now see a lot of it was bs answers i was a housekeeper for someone years back when i was in the college side job extra money i would see short straws in the random places at the house where i worked i usually just picked them up and threw it in the trash can it took me two years to realize the person i worked for had drug addiction and he used the straws to snort the drugs now look back i am glad i wear gloves for cleaning other people's houses i bought a used pickup truck in the late 90s that had an electronic key fob like any car these days it had a couple other buttons as well that when pressed did nothing i asked about it at the dealership and they told me it was probably for a remote start that wasn't hooked up after two years of driving that truck around in cold chicago winters i sold the truck to my brother when i bought my first new car one day while talking to him he started the car up with the remote starter i stared in complete shock as he explained that you have to hold the button down also side note for key fobs the battery in mind died recently and i googled how to get my nissan to start without it turns out there's a secondary nfc function so you can just hold the fod up against the start button to use it when the battery is dead lesser known and a life saver to know just in case door has a place for the physical key still useful on start button though i had no idea that salad spinners were to dry your salad i thought they were to mix your salad dressing or some crap we got one as a wedding gift so i loaded one up dumped some dressing in and spun a ton of the dressing off of the salad this made me think the product was to apply dressing flavor to all of your salad bits without dealing with all the calories that can come from overloading on dressing so naturally i thought it was a total waste of time and money and tossed it into a cabin it's never to be used again a year goes by and i see a comment on reddit about salad spinners and how they are such a game changer and so worth it and i thought people would just batch it insane nope i'm the idiot here there to dry your washed salad bits so you have nice crisp not soggy salad i had no idea and the box sure as heck didn't tell me that i've used salad spinners to dry off grapes after washing them i use the inner basket thing to put the grapes in it rinse them off and then pop it back into the spinner to get rid of all the water just today at the gym i forgot my shower sandals and i was like oh sweet they have disposable slippers just in case such an event put them on walk through the change room use them they worked well i just realized they were shower caps to be fair the little booties they give out at open houses and surgeons wear look like shower caps and just maybe the same thing after high school i was working a temp job in a business remodel the wood floors had been put in and the contractor had a big roll of paper that he taped down to cover the floor to prevent scuffs and scrapes while the work continued one time i touched the roll of paper and noted that it was somewhat sturdier than normal paper and reminded me of kraft paper that we used in elementary school i remembered that as a child the teacher always called it doink moment of realization construction paper no that's not true that's impossible when i was a kid i had a large toy box with a lid i had to use my head to prop up the lid when i grabbed things there was a place to put a stick to prop it open i noticed there was a stick kept in the kitchen for me and my brother's spankings by the time i realized the stick was originally meant for the toy box i had outgrown the toy box the wiggly metal bracket on the end of a tape measure is like that on purpose the amount it wiggles matches its thickness so you can take inside measurements and push it in or outside measurements and pull it out and you'll get consistent measurements jesus christ i have always thought they were simply cheaply made i had to go grab two of my dad's tape measures and show him i lived in the us for a year i am european and i was really annoyed about our light switches they didn't led to any lamps there were no lamps in the ceiling at all and i couldn't figure out why we had switches on the wall i was also super annoyed at a few sockets outlets worked sometimes but not all the time i never talked to our landlord because frankly he scared me and since i was moving back soon i just figured i'd live with it fast forward 11 months when i visited a friend's house i couldn't turn on her big floor lamp just do like this she said and flip the light switch on the wall it turns out in america light switches can lead to sockets in the wall it took me three years of living in the us and then getting married to an american to know this one for years i thought those weird storage pod thingies some cars and vans have on top of the roof were many canoes as in i kind of thought that until i was like 24 but i was too nervous to ask anyone the kensington lock hole on my first macbook i spent forever googling things like tiny pill-shaped port until eventually i asked my dad what it was he took the mac downstairs got out this cable and locked them up to a radiator in the living room go do your homework and i'll give you the key flashbacks to my first internship where they had a pretty big do not leave your laptop unlocked and unattended policy and one of the biggest ways to haze the interns was that if you didn't lock it and left for lunch the bathroom employee gym whatever it magically wasn't there when you got back i have no idea how my massively adhd self never fell victim to the policy since as long as i can remember my mom has kept this creepy doll hung up on the wall in our garage right next to the door to go in the house the things are real i saw clothes are ugly and it's just this raggedy thing so recently i asked my mom why the heck she keeps this ugly demon doll hung up on the wall and she says really it holds plastic bags and walks up to it and pulls a plastic grocery bag out of its butt at 19 years in that house and i always thought my mom just had weird taste and decoration considering that you can get a plain plastic holder that does the same thing i would say that yes your mom does have weird taste and decoration that i did not need to put eggs in the refrigerator egg holder one by one instead i could put it on top of the eggs in the case and simply flip it over but then the eggs are upside down that dryer sheets prevent static cling i always assumed you put them in to make your clothes smell better so when i moved out i just never bought any then one day i had to do laundry at my mom's house in the middle of switching laundry i'm bitching about the socks all stuck to the blanket and my mom says well then put in a dryer sheet dumbbell toe so that's what those are for those travel toothbrushes i always carried one on me and always wondered why they made one so tiny until one day on vacation with my gf i'm using it and she says why don't you use it normally she then grabs the casing for the toothbrush and attaches it to the bottom of the brush mint blown lol that's hilarious i did the same too until my wife bought me one before vacation i told her to take it back because it's a pain in the butt to use because it's so tiny she then just looked at me in a blank stare like i was the dumbest person on earth and then slowly assembled it i just put my head down and shook my head i always wondered why there was a g in the stylized disney logo and it honestly took me like 15 years to figure out it was a d the whole time and i was just an idiot jisnab water towers are not for storing water they are to pressurize a water supply system for the distribution of potable water not sure why i thought they were for storing a bunch of water in the sky so i was a first-year medical student and was laid to class and ran in sweating through my oxford shirt and car keys the lecturer was some esteemed local wind-back cardiologist as i sat down he stated very grandly the most important part of the stethoscope is the part between the earpieces i took my stethoscope out and started looking at the little spring thing that connected the two earpieces together trying to figure out why that cheap little part was so important after way longer than it should have it occurred to me that he was talking about the doctor's brain and dropped my stethoscope like it was hot and hoped no one saw me examining the little spring thing this is cute lol condensed soup i always wondered why the cans were smaller yet tasted super salty and were thick i never took the time to read the instructions about how you're supposed to add water i went 39 years without knowing one day i finally asked my wife and after she stopped laughing she explained it to me i don't like any type of seafood i just learned last week that hush puppies aren't essentially fish stick balls but a fried cornmeal i think my parents preyed on the fact that i don't like seafood and use that as an excuse to not share their hush puppies little notches on the side of my bed liner in my tacoma apparently if you put a 2x4 in those you can actually load 4x8 sheets without them sitting all funny on your wheel wells took me way way too long to figure that one out you can also use the 2x4s and a sheet of plywood to make a support for an air mattress then stir your camping gear in the space underneath great tent free car camping setup my uncle decided to start driving a moped around instead of his car when i was about six it dawned on me years later that the decision wasn't exactly voluntary i had an uncle that i bragged to friends would ride his bicycle all year round even in winter this uncle wasn't exactly a fitness buff either i marveled at his commitment to bicycling until i was an adult and learned that his driver's license had been suspended for years growing up my mother raised me to never look into her purse because it was rude to rifle through another's belongings at seven years old i felt like a rebel and looked through her purse while she was out gardening i found her lipstick wallet and an odd-shaped canister that looked like perfume i figured let's give it a shot and sprayed some all over me mostly my face what i didn't realize was that it was pepper spray i ran around screaming in utter pain lesson learned my cousin did this once well something like it i had my can of pepper spray on my dresser and my mom and i were going through clothes to give to her all of a sudden i can't breathe my eyes are burning and i turn around and she has sprayed it in the air above my room and on her clothes she thought it was perfume i teased her forever about that when i was a kid my grandfather and i built a model 1989 batmobile together we worked so hard to get it together neither of us having built models before it took hours we finished up and we had one green piece left we looked through the instructions looked all over the model could not figure it out finally i went and got my grandma to see if she could figure it out she came in took one look at it and it was the top of the super glue we had forgotten to recap the super glue my grandfather died a few years ago i still get crap for that moment 25 years later good memories you found the piece of resistance took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that movie is referring to a moving picture old-fashioned term similar to crash investigation sites on the highway i'd see the signs for them and think to myself that sure seems like overkill to have an ongoing investigation into a crash for all this time my wife pointed out to me that they are bump outs for pulling off the highway to inspect damage from minor accidents and she made fun of me for being an idiot i've never seen these and i've traveled a fair bit both inside and outside the usa joggers have sweat bands on their wrists to wipe sweat from their forehead yes athletes use them to keep their hands dryer but runners primarily need to keep sweat from running ha into their eyes this is the first one in the thread that legitimately got me holy crap the metal square thing on a stapler can be turned around so the prongs of the staple go outwards instead of inwards the time i mouthed a douchebag so i was about eight years old and had hurt myself in some fashion that i can't remember so being the good latchkey kid that i was i marched myself through my parents bedroom and into their bathroom where all the bandages antibiotic etc were stored i proceeded to bandage myself up and when i was putting everything back i noticed something interesting in the back on a higher shelf kids and nosy suckers so i pulled it out to look at it and found a cool balloon i thought at first that it might be a hot water bottle but it wasn't red or flat it was blue and floppy like an ice bottle but the opening was much too narrow to be a nice bottle it also had a really cool spray nozzle type thingy attached to the end i didn't know what it was for so i tried to blow it up like with my mouth like a balloon it didn't work i put my mother's douchebag in my freaking mouth i realized it when i was thinking about that medicine cabinet and i was 22 over a decade after it happened this is the first time i have told this story frick i need to go find some listerine cheer up it could have been an enema bag i was at an antenatal class with my wife when the instructor shared a tip for making sure you let your baby feed from each breast an equal amount by taking it in turns left right which one you start off with how do you remember which you started with you use a hair tie a few minutes later she remarked and don't forget to put the hair tie on your other wrist when you next do a feed to which i remarked rather too audibly for a room of 20 strangers ooh you put it on your wrist oops i was a bit slow that day and many other days i am 43 years old i only learned about six months ago that this little piggy went to market does not mean he went shopping for groceries that the pockets on suit coats blazers etc and back pockets of slacks are loosely stitched closed and meant to be cut open i spent a solid four years of my life as a p off pragmatist why the frick would you put pockets just for show those buttholes one day a friend heard my incessant bitching and goes you know you just make a small snip and pull the thread out then the pockets are accessible goes to closet snips open pockets well frick me simultaneously we have some going oh and fashionistas going dear god do you realize what you've done i figured this out by accident i just felt a small hole and realized there was a fabric pocket inside and just pulled at it until the stitches came out still not much of a pocket but it's a pocket i guess i had just bought my first house and needed to patch a hole in a bathroom fan exhaust duct in the attic i was walking around lowe's thinking i wonder what sort of tape i should use for ducts then it hit me duct tape for ducts now if anyone sees this all of the comments below will be about how it's not actually good for ducts should use the silver stuff etc but i definitely had that moment that day potato peelers have a little indentation on the end of them it's used to scoop out the black parts of potatoes that you don't want to eat my mind alternates in this thread from i didn't know that and it's really cool to how the frick did someone not know that pipe cleaners when i was a kid they were used for crafts and stuff and i just figured that they were used to clean like kitchen pipes in my kid brain that kinda made sense as i grew up i just never thought about it again really then one day in college i decide cigars are expensive and pipe tobacco seems much cheaper overall plus the rustic feel of a man on his porch reading with a tobacco pipe always appealed to me for some reason so i went out and bought a cheap tobacco pipe and while i was checking out the cashier asked me if i wanted pipe cleaners the scales just dropped from my eyes it took 20 plus years to learn that pipe cleaners were used to clean you know pipes glad to share the experience of enlightenment with you fine folk i had this exact same experience when i was a kid we stayed in a guest house that had a dumb waiter something i'd never heard of before i thought my parents were insulting the staff when they said that breakfast was arriving by means of a dumb waiter until i saw it in operation for myself the only reason i know what a dumb waiter is because harriet hidden one while spying in a book titled wait for it harriet the spy i'm six feet three inches and had been driving my 2007 chevy silverado for nine years before i realized i could lower the seat height it had been at max elevation the entire time first time in the past decade i've been able to see the sky out my windshield while driving if you are new to the channel you can subscribe i publish new videos every day until then check another video so bye for now

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Length: 22min 47sec (1367 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 20 2020