What Is Something That You Use Everyday but Don't Know How It Works?

redditors what is the worst case of i don't know how to operate this everyday object you've seen i just got back from a vacation this isn't the worst thing but it's on my mind right now it's how bad people are at getting their luggage off of the luggage thing at the airport like people were literally falling over unable to grab their baggage it was sad to watch i dropped an ice cube on the floor once and threw it in the sink my roommate at the time was flabbergasted she had never thought of that and always put dropped ice cubes in the garbage as the youngest in the office i'm now the official printer guy anyone has a problem with the printer they come to me dumbfounded sometimes it's just a machine telling them there's a jam and they refuse to read the display telling them where the issue is actually reading error messages is such a rare and valuable skill there's an entire industry for it my boss doesn't know how to forward emails he also doesn't know how the printer scanner works he will call me over to his office have me print an email then he'll tell me to scan what i just printed and send it to the person he wants to send it to i got stuck in a mini cooper i could not find the door handle my friend who owned the car let me out when she was done laughing i had this happen when my friend let me drive his tesla couldn't figure out how to open the door to get in or get out just started touching stuff and eventually the car released me from my captivity my sister-in-law had a flatmate who never cleaned up after himself in the toilet there was always poop left myself and their other flatmate were annoyed but didn't want to embarrass him by telling him when they were moving out and cleaning the apartment the others told the poop guy to clean the bathroom and pointed to the toilet brush and told him to make sure to use that too when they came in a while later to see how it was going he was using the toilet brush but not in the toilet he was using it to clean the walls this guy was in his late 20s and had no idea what a toilet brush was used for i'm gonna say that's kind on them as well to ask the guy who always leaves the toilet crappy to clean the toilet as an i.t manager at a small office i'll just say the majority of people when it comes to understanding and operating a windows computer the amount of people that get hung up and stop working over the most minor issues is astounding want to prove yourself more efficient and put yourself ahead of 90 of the current workforce learn basic proficiency and how to operate a windows 10 pc my mom and gmail quote no i don't need a password to log in now get my emails back i get older generations are not as tech savvy not having grown up with computers and internet big come on you've had that stupid computer for at least 10 bloody years you must have picked up on the basics by now i almost stapled my hand or my face with a staple gun if my teacher hadn't intervened in time i had never seen one in my life and was just handed one to put up some posters i'm not sure how i held it but it was wrong enough for the teacher to dive over like a baseball home run sir that is an anti-tank weapon and you're pointing it at your face served in the army for a brief time with a girl who didn't know you had to rinse clothes after you soaked them while manually doing laundry we had incidents where our laundry services would be woefully behind schedule so occasionally you had to do some sink laundry here and there she would get hers wet soap it up and then just hang it and wonder why hers always came out worse than everyone else's a guy on my floor in the dorms was kind of the opposite he freaked out one time because he spilled blue liquid laundry soap into his laundry basket that was filed with dirty clothes he freaked out because he thought the blue soap would stain the clothes a friend got a call from her cousin who recently went to college hey so i'm about to do laundry how should i sort the clothes is it by brand at least she knew they need to be sorted personally i sought by dirty or clean my girlfriend never used a toaster until four years ago she inserted two slices of toast and started the toaster when she thought the toast may be finished she took a metal knife and wanted to get the toast slices out of the toaster by picking it up with the knife i just noticed a second before she would have put that knife into the electric heating wire and shouted what are you doing from across the room maybe i saved her life now she knows toasters stop automatically after the preset time or you stop it by pushing the respective button rather than killing yourself grad students are kind of the epitome of specialized knowledge i used to hang out with a couple of guys who knew more about non-profit organization laws than i knew there was to know but i frequently had to teach them things like how to make microwave oatmeal how to make a graph in excel and what the thesaurus was carpooled with a guy who had a phd in physics laser designer kept asking me things like how does a car work how does a record player work i see examples every time i'm watching people putting carry-ons in the overhead bins on planes like whatever part of their brain is responsible for geometry at even the level of understanding of a toddler goes completely dark you can see it in their faces frustrated and completely baffled why they can't fit their luggage in there and i just want to scream turn it sideways you freaking idiot and just for fun regarding flights there was the dude who jammed up the baggage drop trying to persuade the attendants to let his extra 150 kilograms of checked baggage slide for free dude had 200 kilograms worth of luggage i'd never seen anything like it and for my own stupidity there was the time i was in the check and assistance line for about 20 minutes with my head down before looking around at everyone else and thinking wait now something's wrong here i asked someone what flight the line is for jamaica i must have looked pretty dumb ditching the line after being there all that time it was me operating a self-checkout at walmart i scanned a thing and held it in my right then proceeded to try to scan the next thing using my left hand the machine said please place item in bagging area like 15 times i just stared at it like it was speaking swahili the checkout person had to help me i was completely sober i just vapor locked i have no idea wtf happened my old roommate claimed she was the smartest person around i thought she was smart enough i guess but then she bought her first wallet i turn around to her trying to force the wallet shut with the cards in the wrong way she insisted the wallet was manufactured incorrectly because the wallet wouldn't close with a card sitting upright i silently took the wallet turned one card 90 degrees handed it back to her and went back to what i was doing a housemaid of mine once put something in the microwave that was covered in tinfoil not a foil lid something she had covered in actual foil to reheat i saw it happen out of the corner of my eye and dived in to open the microwave before anything went wrong she got very angry and said what the frick are you doing i'm trying to cook my lunch what's your problem i said something along the lines of look mate you can't put tin foil in the microwave she told me to frick off and i sat down in the corner of the kitchen to eat my food while she tried to do it again when the microwave sparked and made a fuss like it was going to catch fire she started screaming and turned the microwave off at the wall while i sat there with a smug grin on my face i wanted to say see told you so but i felt the smug grin was probably enough a guy i know had his in-laws move in with him for a while they were very traditional very religious types where the man was the head of the household and the woman did the woman's work super conservative my friend told me that his father-in-law came into the garage one day when he was cleaning up and asked what he could do my friend told him that he was almost done and only had some heavy items to put away so he told the phil that he could sweep up and handed him the broom and dustband phil said okay how do i do that new hire was asked to mop the back room when i worked at a coffee shop it's a mop i thought no one needs to be taught how to use a mop well this dude lifts the mop up dips just the ends of the mop into the soap water and proceeded to lightly brush the floor with wet mop tips like he was doing a giant-sized calligraphy project that bring up an oddly endearing mental image walking on a treadmill him not talking about operating or using the controls simply walking on it i work in healthcare and perform stress tests in the hospital you would not believe how many people old and young that don't understand how to walk on a treadmill many people try to just march in place before almost being flung off the back some people have absolutely no natural survival skills or instincts i they'd be fricked if they were attacked by a treadmill in the wild i worked at gas station in pennsylvania occasionally we had customers with no idea how to put gas in their car they'd shrug and say i'm from new jersey new jersey doesn't allow self-service gas stations church camp loathies many years ago last night cabin cleaning time girl started crying while holding a broom because she didn't know how to sweep the maid does this at home she wasn't being a prima donna either she was genuinely lost i had a maid when i was younger and i knew how to sweep has she not watched a movie or although i've seen a lot of people sweep back and forth like in a cartoon i think of myself as a smart guy a couple of months ago i warned my girlfriend against using the car horn too much in case it runs out immediately after she asked me what the heck i meant i realized i've never seen or heard of anyone going to get their horn refilled at full disclosure i still don't fully get car horns unless you are talking about air horns used on large trucks car horns are just small crude and robust speakers that broadcast a single tone they are powered by your car's battery which is constantly charged by the alternator connected to your engine air horns on trucks use air from an onboard air compressor and air tank that also powers the air brakes i work in a bakery making specialty cakes every now and then someone will order a specific design they found on the internet sometimes there are print screen attachments they send by email every now and then someone will give me an actual photograph they took of their computer screen like they took the picture how did it developed and brought it in person to the bakery ketchup pump worked at a restaurant for a summer in college expediting for the kitchen getting sides fixing plating we had a new guy come a few weeks after me obviously chock full of nerves i asked him to fill up 20 rampkins with ketchup for a big order coming up literally all you have to do is hold the ramekin under the faucet and push down on the pump it's exactly like you would see at every single fast food joint that lets you get your own sauces despite showing him several times exactly how to fill these cups with ketchup it still took him 15 minutes and about 30 more questions to get the simple task done it's not like he was a dumb guy but i swear the only thing he ended up being good for in the three months i worked there was clearing tables and doing dishes everything else just left him entirely unsure of himself to the point where he couldn't do anything that sounds more like a psychological disorder than anything not mine but my good friend is a manager in some student accommodation he's not actually that much older than the students so the ridiculous situations he finds them in are even more perplexing one time he gets a call from a student saying there's smoke filling the shared space and they don't know what to do so my friend calls the fire brigade and runs up to where their dorm is comes in the door and sure enough the place is filled with smoke he looks over and sees five students just sitting on a couch and the smoke with their t-shirts held over their mouths he's like wtf is doing they hadn't even opened a window or at very least foe he instantly assessed that they'd left some old greasy tray in the oven so he opens it up grabs it and chucks it into the sink instead of actually now dealing with it they just sat there in a room rapidly filling with arid smoke he was in total disbelief another one a guy came up to his office absolutely furious and genuinely upset that someone had stolen his clothes from the washing machine my mate thought this was dubious but he went along with it they get to the laundry room and the guy points at the machine and indignantly says look see cue my butt faster coming the washing machine is still running full speed and this freaking [ __ ] couldn't grasp the concept of clothes being pressed against the drum from the centrifugal force if you ever want some serious amusement hand any programmer a device made for non-technical people seriously i am a programmer and work with many more and it frequently takes five or more of us to figure out how to work a projector a smart tv or some more complicated office chairs i am not joking guilty i can't work an office phone can't put calls on hold can't forward a call but i designed and developed an enterprise level data warehouse in my defense the buttons on the phones and marked hold or forward or whatever we had a young employee at a call center who got a busy signal from the number she called and she didn't know understand what it was to be honest i don't think i've heard one in years there must still be a thing but i'd guess it's getting exceeding rare when i worked in a coffee shop this lady came storming up to me and started yelling that our takeaway cups were terrible i asked her what was wrong and she proceeded to tell me that she had put the cup into her handbag and coffee had spilled everywhere she opened the bag to show me and there was the cardboard takeaway cup mashed between a hard shell glasses case and a paperback book oh honey no i worked at the front desk of my dorm while in college the first week of school a freshman came over with an envelope and asked how to address it everything explaining that an address is written on three lines one above the other to which corner the stamp goes on it was actually fabulous because he was sending a thank you note to his aunt it's just that his mom had always done it for him in the past that's pretty great and it's exactly the reason that it's so important for people to get out from under their parents wings preferably in a semi-controlled environment like that where there's someone to ask and at least some of life's basic necessities are still taken care of the shallow end of the pool as it were i had to teach my brother how to drive his car through the car wash mind you i was 17 and had not yet started driving myself we got to the gas station and he looked at me and said hey you go out with dad all the time how do i get a car wash i stared at him bewildered then told him to go inside and say he wanted to buy a car wash which wash and then to pay and bring out his receipt he does this then asks me what he should do next i told him to drive to the car wash so he did he seriously sat there and asked me what to do next i told him you roll your window down type in the code on the receipt and then you drive in he did exactly that he drove in and we started getting hosed i yelled at him and you put the window up you put the window up it never occurred to me that i would need to tell someone that you don't leave your windows down in a car wash my roommate in college and i go grocery shopping he picks up some taco shells reads the directions and puts it back down then picks them back and says man tacos would be so good tonight but we have no idea how to brown meat i told him to get the tacos and i'd teach him how to cook 18 year old co-worker can't read an analog clock realize that's probably gonna become more and more common in future generations i know how to read an analog clock i just don't see them a lot so it takes me a bit sometimes i feel stupid when i'm staring at a clock for a minute trying to tell the time i actually am stupid not only can i not read a simple clock but i also can't spell a lot i'm gonna go cry now yeah me trying to use those butterfly can openers i've tried many times and just can't seem to master it despite being shown over and over i can use the other ones just fine but i've yet to not absolutely butcher a can whilst trying to use those butterfly ones embarrassing not me but i guy i used to work with had a nickname for a friend of his paperclip dude had no idea what it was or how it worked i believe they were early twenties at the time my 21 year old college roommate asked me how to turn the basic af oven onto 350 degrees to bake cookies but that same roommate the other day thought the lysol sink cleaner spray bottle or whatever brand it was was broken because he didn't know that you had to twist the tip from lock to spray the year prior that my 18 year old roommate didn't know how to do laundry simply throw the tide pod in select the temperature and press start i was standing behind a late teenage early college type at the post office drop-off counter at my local grocery store they sell stamps and hold on to letters and packages for pick up by the post office once a day this young karen in training was sending a thank you card to her grandmother who didn't have email she was absolutely livid that she had to pay money to put a sticker on the envelope before they would accept it for delivery i was showing a set of encyclopedias to a college student last semester and she asked me if this came before p i died a little inside no lie i had to sing a few letters to myself to figure out if she was wrong my care coordinator aka right-hand person is one year younger than me but she's about as tech-savvy as my 90-year-old grandma not implying that all older folks aren't tech savvy but my grandma is definitely not seems like i'm showing her something new every day from keyboard shortcuts to how to operate the printer correctly she's learned a lot since she's been here but definitely unexpected that she wouldn't understand computers to her basic understanding she grew up with them but just never messed with them she said she's learned a lot since she's been here keep her never let her go users that learn things are one in a million even more rare if she appreciates it instead of turning it into a four i already knew that butthole i'm not convinced this is a matter of don't know how to operate this thing but rather have no idea how to follow instructions my team recently finished developing some proprietary software and distributed it to the four dozen people who will be using it i made a manual for it that starts with step-by-step instructions for using the software i even typed up the instructions in an email that got blasted to the whole group in both the email and the manual right at the beginning in big bold red letters it says if you encounter an error save your work hit the report a bug button then attach the file you just saved to the report the total number of bugs reported via the reporter bug butting 2 total number of those reports submitted with the work file attached so my guys can try to duplicate the problem zero total number of bugs reported via someone randomly encountering me or one of my guys in the halls and bitching about how we're not fixing the bugs fast enough for five minutes before finally getting around to describing the issue in the most vague and unhelpful way possible 22 i eventually had to have the owner send out an email explaining that no bugs will be addressed unless they are reported via the reporter bug button with an attached file total numbers of bugs reported via random hall encounters since that last email was sent three the total number of bugs reported via the reporter bug button since that email was sent zero the only roommate i ever had was a guy who didn't seem to know how to do most basic tasks he had to google things like how to empty a vacuum and how to cook rice i told him to add 2 cups of water to one cup of rice and that would be more than enough for one person after giving me snark attitude i come home to find he had added the whole package to a full pot of water and the pot basically exploded rice all over the place at least he had the sense to google things rather than ask i used to work in the middle east and you would sometimes see workers that were from rural parts of india who had obviously never seen an escalator before i always got a chuckle out of seeing them ride it for the first time i used to work in a hospital in a large regional center many of our patients come from way out in the bush i may or may not have had to ride the scary elevator with them and i held hands poor lady my nan back when 50 shades of grey was just out wanted to know how to use her kindle and download the hot one nope sorry nan i have no idea dude let the old lady have a smut this happened to me the other day i spent five minutes pulling at a door that was clearly marked push for some reason it would not register in my brain to push so like a douche i just pulled it instead till the security guard helped me out 33 and still can't open a door midvale school for the gifted i can very clearly remember when i had one of these moments back when i was little i was pretty much a spoiled brat my parents weren't particularly rich but my dad is a cfo at the company he still works at so we were able to afford some things or go to places other might not one of the many things that led to me being spoiled off was the fact that i had to do virtually no housework my mother later explained that she did all of the housework because she hated doing it herself when she was little and she didn't want to bother us with it furthermore she wanted us to focus on school and our hobbies which we hardly ever did because we were too busy playing video games cut back to a one-week trip in middle school we were living at one of these forest youth hostels in our neighbor state the trip itself wasn't all too bad on the last day the hostel staff pretty much made us clean up not only our own rooms but also the bathrooms kitchen etc meanwhile me who had zero idea how cleaning works mostly moved things from a to b if they needed to be until the strict teacher called me into the kitchen as i was the only one around she handed me a mop and told me to wipe the floor with it oh boy the face she gave me when i told her that i had no clue how that worked has absolutely carved itself into my brain she actually did take the time to patiently explain it to me but i honestly felt pretty horrible for the rest of the day that was pretty much the moment that made me realize just how far away i was from reality how different and sheltered i was perhaps my complete lack of self-awareness is what made me such an easy to pick victim in the first place thankfully i managed to learn all the skills needed to live on my own pretty soon after that be it from my mom my friends or even their parents if you are new to the channel you can subscribe i publish new videos every day until then check another video [Music] bye for now

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Length: 24min 35sec (1475 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 18 2020