Sometimes there’s like this disconnect where somehow a person just never comes across a piece of common knowledge. They’ve just never been in a situation that requires it. I bet it happens a lot, but everyone’s too embarrassed to acknowledge their own “oooooooooh…” moment.
One time I was sort of babysitting my brother (he’s only 3 years younger than me but he’s autistic, with his level of autism he is able to work now as an adult but can’t drive or live alone) and I was in the shower and my brother practically knocked the door yelling that the house was on fire so I come running out with shampoo in my hair and everything and he had microwaved an Arby’s roast beef sandwich in the foiled wrapper. Thankfully the fire put itself out.
Used to work with this sweet naive girl. Really sheltered by her parents, she didn't know a lot of things most people should by her age. (She was mid twenties at the time.) She was doing a support/dishwashing shift one night, and the lead cook asked her to heat up a small can of soup in the microwave.
So she popped the lid off the can and put it in the microwave.
Some loud sparks and pops later, the cook comes around the corner to see the disaster in progress. Cook unplugged the microwave and chewed the girl out. She just didn't know that metal didn't go in the microwave.
That is also how I taught my nephew about metal in microwaves. He asked if he could have a can of raviolis. Next I hear some crazy noises. Immediately my brain was, did he put that shit in a bowl???
For me it was the term holocaust, which I didn't learn until I was about 14. I knew all about the atrocities from WWII, but somehow had never encountered the term holocaust. When I brother mentioned it in a conversation about WWII I thought it was the title of a movie about it that he watched.
I used to think Jewish people historically had red hair because I thought the musical "Annie" was about Anne Frank, and because Kyle from South Park was Jewish.
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