Things you didn't realize

SnShne322 · September 2015

Stolen from PB. What about you? Anything you didn't realize until embarrassingly late in life?

http://imgur.com/gallery/uV05E

I never made this connection.

lab7979 · September 2015

I used to think elbow grease was just a type of grease. $:\$ ">

jackiback · September 2015

I still think he was shopping for groceries....

InLovewSB · September 2015

My dad always said 'being haved' (sounds like shaved), instead of behaving.

I didn't realize the numbers on a toaster meant minutes. I just thought it was degrees of toastedness. I discovered this when I was maybe 30ish.

According to my coworkers, there is a "correct way" to hang a paperclip, which is small part to the front and large to the back. I always paperclip backwards, apparently. So I learned this maybe 5 years ago, when my boss hollered 'WHO KEEPS PAPERCLIPPING BACKWARDS?!!" from her office.

The little arrow by your fuel indicator is telling you which side of the car the fuel door is on. I learned this in about my mid-twenties.

jackiback · September 2015

InLovewSB said:

My dad always said 'being haved' (sounds like shaved), instead of behaving.

I didn't realize the numbers on a toaster meant minutes. I just thought it was degrees of toastedness. I discovered this when I was maybe 30ish.

According to my coworkers, there is a "correct way" to hang a paperclip, which is small part to the front and large to the back. I always paperclip backwards, apparently. So I learned this maybe 5 years ago, when my boss hollered 'WHO KEEPS PAPERCLIPPING BACKWARDS?!!" from her office.

The little arrow by your fuel indicator is telling you which side of the car the fuel door is on. I learned this in about my mid-twenties.

Didn't know these things.

SnShne322 · September 2015

jackiback said:

InLovewSB said:

My dad always said 'being haved' (sounds like shaved), instead of behaving.

I didn't realize the numbers on a toaster meant minutes. I just thought it was degrees of toastedness. I discovered this when I was maybe 30ish.

According to my coworkers, there is a "correct way" to hang a paperclip, which is small part to the front and large to the back. I always paperclip backwards, apparently. So I learned this maybe 5 years ago, when my boss hollered 'WHO KEEPS PAPERCLIPPING BACKWARDS?!!" from her office.

The little arrow by your fuel indicator is telling you which side of the car the fuel door is on. I learned this in about my mid-twenties.

Didn't know these things.

Ditto. I'm going to time my toaster when I get home.

lab7979 · September 2015

InLovewSB said:

My dad always said 'being haved' (sounds like shaved), instead of behaving.

I didn't realize the numbers on a toaster meant minutes. I just thought it was degrees of toastedness. I discovered this when I was maybe 30ish.

According to my coworkers, there is a "correct way" to hang a paperclip, which is small part to the front and large to the back. I always paperclip backwards, apparently. So I learned this maybe 5 years ago, when my boss hollered 'WHO KEEPS PAPERCLIPPING BACKWARDS?!!" from her office.

The little arrow by your fuel indicator is telling you which side of the car the fuel door is on. I learned this in about my mid-twenties.

I just learned this today. :-?

jackiback · September 2015

When I was in high school, I was having dinner with friends and we were talking about different kinds of spaghetti thicknesses and I said, "Oh, I think it just depends on where it's grown." and my friend said, "You mean where it's made?" and I was just like "Oh yeah, right, where it's made!"

I went home that night.

Me: Mom, what is spaghetti, like where does it come from?

Mom: What do you mean? It's just a pasta.

Me: Right, but what is it?

Mom: It's just like flour and water and eggs and I think salt.

Me: Oh my god.

Mom: ....Why?

Me: I thought it was just like grain! Like it grew straight up and some farmer went and broke it all off and then we ate it!

Mom: *laughing* But jacki! It's just like any other pasta! If there were tall spaghetti stalks, there would have to be a macaroni tree! A bow tie pasta bush! You thought all of them grew?!

Me: No! I never thought about the origins of macaroni, or really thought hard about spaghetti, I just assumed it grew!

It is a big family joke now, but I was dead serious!

SnShne322 · September 2015

In relation to Jacki's story, J swears that pastas taste different. Like Barilla spaghetti tastes different that their elbows.

lab7979 · September 2015

SnShne322 said:

In relation to Jacki's story, J swears that pastas taste different. Like Barilla spaghetti tastes different that their elbows.

I don't think it tastes different but the texture is different. My kids will only eat spaghetti shaped pasta. They refuse to eat any other shape. It drives me nuts.

InLovewSB · September 2015

I guess everyone has this moment, but when I was a little girl, I thought a Phillips was an "X Head", and when I helped my dad, he would call it an "X Head" for my benefit. I can't remember when he finally told me it was a Phillips. Maybe I was a teen.

One of my funniest high school memories was sitting at a lunch table, and I can't even remember how it came up but my best friend and I we were talking about tampons quietly. Across the table, our guy friend was like 'I always wondered how you girls found out what size you need?' And my friend and I exchanged looks and said 'Well, it's based on how heavy your flow is - super, regular, light." and he sat there confused for a minute and said "I thought it was your size down there. Like you somehow got measured." LoL!

sassypants527 · September 2015

When I was little I thought period movies were actually filmed in that period, like Mary Poppins was filmed in the nineteen teens. I figured it out by middle school when I realized that the motion picture technology wasn't all that old. Derp.

nocturnalintimacy · September 2015

InLovewSB said:

I didn't realize the numbers on a toaster meant minutes. I just thought it was degrees of toastedness. I discovered this when I was maybe 30ish.

Umm....I didn't know this.

Jen748 · September 2015

I once asked a friend of mine if you had to have sex while on your period to get pregnant. I was totally horrified (having just started my period recently) to think that you'd have to have sex while this nasty biz was happening.

AyshM · September 2015

I didn't know how to make canned soup until I was in college. I never used to make it and just never really thought about it until I was on my own.

Several of these things are new information to me.

I didn't really get the humor of Harry Potter until I listened to it read out loud. Diagon Alley, Grimauld Place, and many things the Weasleys said went over my head.

dutchgirl76 · September 2015

I always thought Clint Eastwood's name was First Name Clineastwood and that he was like a Cher or Madonna, so famous he only needed to go by his last name.

I also think the piggie went to the grocery store...I'm rather sad to think of any other alternative.

MrsC7 · September 2015

@InLovewSB That toaster thing is a revelation. I had no idea!

@jackiback That is my favorite story of you.

I didn't realize until high school that there are special clothes people wear to run or play sports. I ran the entire first half of the cross country season my freshman year in a T-shirt and cutoff jean shorts. (It was a newly formed charter school so I was a one-person team. No one else signed up for cross country.) To my coach's everlasting credit, she bought me some running shorts and off-handedly asked if I wanted to try these "new shorts" to see if they're more comfortable.

RevJen · September 2015

SnShne322 said:

In relation to Jacki's story, J swears that pastas taste different. Like Barilla spaghetti tastes different that their elbows.

My brother swears the same thing. I told him that he's nuts but he swears by it.

CTDec03Bride · September 2015

nocturnalintimacy said:

InLovewSB said:

I didn't realize the numbers on a toaster meant minutes. I just thought it was degrees of toastedness. I discovered this when I was maybe 30ish.

Umm....I didn't know this.

Umm what?? You just blew my mind lol. I had no idea. I too thought it was how toasted you wanted something....wow.

SusieBW · September 2015

I realized just a couple of years ago that the duck sauce at chinese restaurants is called that because it is in fact meant to be put on duck. I don't eat duck, so I just always thought it was a fun name.

julie37619 · September 2015

My mom always told us that we had to eat the crust on our bread because that was where all the vitamins were. I was in my 20s before I realized this wasn't true. When I called my mom to confront her, she said it's what my Mema told her and she had never thought anything different until I brought it up.

RiverPlate · September 2015

We had a party last weekend, and when putting away the food I opened a new roll of tin foil and pushed in the cutouts on the ends of the box to make sure the roll doesn't come out when I'm pulling on it, and at least three people asked me what I was doing and had no idea those cutouts were even there.

dutchgirl76 · September 2015

SusieBW said:

I realized just a couple of years ago that the duck sauce at chinese restaurants is called that because it is in fact meant to be put on duck. I don't eat duck, so I just always thought it was a fun name.

I didn't know that's what it's for either.

MrsC7 · September 2015

RiverPlate said:

We had a party last weekend, and when putting away the food I opened a new roll of tin foil and pushed in the cutouts on the ends of the box to make sure the roll doesn't come out when I'm pulling on it, and at least three people asked me what I was doing and had no idea those cutouts were even there.

I don't even know what you're talking about. Cutouts?

SnShne322 · September 2015

@MrsC7

MrsC7 · September 2015

SnShne322 said:

@MrsC7

SnShne322 · September 2015

@MrsC7 - The aluminum foil in your life is about to get a whole lot easier!!

funkypineapple · September 2015

I didn't know the toaster thing either!

When I was little I thought that the people that were killed in movies and TV shows were people that really wanted to die.

jackiback · September 2015

funkypineapple said:

I didn't know the toaster thing either!

When I was little I thought that the people that were killed in movies and TV shows were people that really wanted to die.

That's so morbid!

(Make this a book!)

RhymeReason · September 2015

I don't think the toaster thing is right because I put my English muffins on 6 and it definitely doesn't take 6 mins. My husband made fun of me for not knowing how our well worked. In my mind we had a really long pipe that pulled from the reservoir

BabyRN2006 · September 2015

julie37619 said:

My mom always told us that we had to eat the crust on our bread because that was where all the vitamins were. I was in my 20s before I realized this wasn't true. When I called my mom to confront her, she said it's what my Mema told her and she had never thought anything different until I brought it up.

My mom told us this too! I was definitely either a late teenager or an adult when I found out the truth.

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