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I'm gunna have to say, I guess there are dumb questions, but sometimes, people are just really confused inside their minds, and so whatever the topic in question is needs clarification, and you can't condemn someone for having a stupid moment, because it happens to everyone.

Like, I could ask a totally dumb question about HVAC or something that might be simple for someone else to understand; sometimes people ask me stupid questions about my job, that you would think would be common knowledge, but not so much.

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^ I don't think anyone is getting condemned, I ask stupid questions sometimes too. I had a customer ask me one today that about made me headdesk. I was working in the Polo Ralph Lauren section and a girl was asking me about a shirt, she said "I really like the polo shirts with the big emblem with the guy playing... umm what is the name of the game they are playing with the horse and the stick?" of course I had to answer, "Polo." She just looked at me for a minute until it clicked.

I think most "stupid" questions are usually just poorly thought through questions - most of the questions listed above are not stupid if those people really didn't understand, but in all the cases, just about, if they'd taken two seconds to think, they wouldn't have needed to ask.
My philosophy - always ask if you don't know, and it doesn't matter what you ask, as you'll never know otherwise. BUT always think about a question at least three or four times, because chances are you can figure it out yourself.

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The question here is 'what's this' but in this instance, it was a very dumb question:

My future MIL has a lap dog she is freakishly attached to. It's very weird. The little thing goes everywhere with her (bathroom, dentist, restaurants) and she is neurotic about everything he does. He is a very long haired breed, some kind of Pomeranian/German Spitz mix and is literally a floof ball. This is the only kind of dog she likes and the only kind she has ever had. That is important for later.

One day she was petting him and noticed a 'bump on his stomach'- she called me and my fiance in a panic. We met her at the vet thinking the poor dog had a tumor or something. So we're all standing in the vets office and he can't find the bump. He asked her to show him where she felt it and she reaches down and grabs his little doggy penis. 'What's this?!' I cannot tell you how hard it was for me to maintain my composure as the vet looked at her like some kind of dog-molester and said 'Um maam, that is his penis.'

She thought dog pee came out near their butts (for this breed only!) and apparently never noticed that it didn't because she said she had never paid attention to dogs anatomy, and her dog squats to go. Her dog is so fluffy you only see paws and head but I'd still think you'd notice it on other dogs? I don't know.

Whenever she is being a brat to me I just think about her feeling up her beloved dog because she's too daft to know that dogs too, have wieners.

So that reminds me of the day we got my mom's dog. We have two girl dogs so we weren't used to having a "Penis" in the family so he was crying the first night so my mom was rubbing his belly while she was half asleep and woke up and realized she had been petting his penis.

Sorry for the hijack

This isn't related to school but when I worked at a bookstore for years we would get the oddest questions in the world.

One time I had to explain the alphabet to some lady who was flipping out because she didn't understand that C was after B.

My favorite was a lady calls in and asks me where she could buy a fanny pack and a tropical shirt. So I tell her try walmart. 10 minutes later she calls back and wants to know where to buy a tv shelve and wallpaper. Then an hour later her husband calls me because they still can't track down a fanny pack and tropical shirt. After talking to him for 10 minutes I finally said " Okay this is a bookstore and I have no idea where you could find those items, maybe you need to call someone else, have a nice day " Every unfortunate time I see a fanny pack I think of them.

I hate in class when people ask silly questions because I start laughing and I look like such a jerk for laughing at them.

Before I became a teacher I worked at a theme park. I worked there for 8 years so there was plenty of opportunity to get some weird questions.

* I worked mostly in one of the souvenir shops, but sometimes did a day on the rides. One day I was working at one of the rollercoasters (an indoor one, bit like Space Mountain). Before I go on: there is a big sign that says this is a high-speed rollercoaster, it has all the warning signs (not for people with heart problems, pregnant women etc). Then, as you go on, the rollercoaster thunders by a window next to the queue. And of course there is the actual train itself with the lap bars etc. I mean, it's not as though they're trying to hide it's a coaster, right?

Anyway, the day it happened it was fairly busy, and we were riding two of the three trains, and people had to wait for about 15 minutes before getting on the ride.

I'd spotted these two ladies quite early on (one of them was wearing a bright yellow coat), and they got in at my end of the train. They sat down, pulled down the lap bar, and as I passed them to check on the bars, asked me: "Excuse me, what kind of ride is this?"

I was cruel enough to send the train on its way first, and shout after them: "It's a rollercoaster!".

* More stupid though, because utterly irresponsible: So many parents that I met (especially fathers with their little sons) asked me to waive the minimum height requirement. Stupid question of the day/month/year: "Why can't my kid ride this coaster?" Answer: "Because your child is too ***** small! It's for his/her own safety!" I had parents try to get me to accept kids that were a full 8 inches too short. Grrrrr!