20 Hilarious Times People Were Completely Confused On How To Be An Adult

These people are so perplexing. When you think adulting is hard and paying tax is complicated, you will feel better going through this list. People cook tens of plastic spatula and possibly build up cancer because they don’t know they shouldn’t do that. People are throwing away the whole vacuum cleaner instead of emptying the container.

Adulting is hard. But these people have not even passed the basic knowledge they should have to be allowed to live alone. And we would have never known these people existed if it weren’t for them sharing it on Reddit.

1.

“I had a roommate at university who’s “cooking” method was put baked beans in a Tupperware, seal the lid, turn on the microwave, when the lid pops and explodes beans everywhere they’re cooked.” – Thejustinset

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“I had to jump a friend’s car that wouldn’t start. It had a hard time but I finally got it running. She immediately turns off the car and says, “Thank you so much. I’ll call you later!”” – foundinthewild1

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“When my friend bought a house a month into homeownership she asked me, very pissed off when the city was coming to cut her lawn because it’s starting to look like weeds. It was awkward when I had to explain that she needs to cut her own lawn or hire someone.” – theantpantsdance

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“My best friend was sleeping with a new guy. She said she wasn’t sure of his sexual history but she was on the pill to prevent STDs. I was like umm…” – slohomo

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“One of roommates in college would go through plastic spatulas like crazy. She’d melt them and wouldn’t say anything about it. She’d only tell me when I’d go to use it and wonder why it was messed up. She’d always say it was due to the spatula being made of cheap plastic. No. I finally caught her one day. She’d be cooking something and would walk away LEAVING THE PLASTIC SPATULA IN THE PAN WHILE IT WAS STILL ON!” – Fantastic_Relief

6.

“A friend who was pushing 40 had never paid a bill before. She had gone from living with her parents to living in a dorm to living with her parents again until she got married, then she got divorced and was living on her own for the first time. Got a text from her asking if my power was out too, then she realized it was just her. Her excuse was she never paid attention to the bills because she thought they were “receipts” and that the cost was included in her rent. Her water was cut off a couple weeks later and we had to talk about that, too.” – ReddishWedding2018

7.

“Had to ask my roommate to please wash his hands after touching raw chicken. He was cool to just… go about his day before I asked. He thought I was being a wacko neat freak. The same guy also thought his sheets wouldn’t fit in the washing machine so he just… never washed them. When I asked him please not drop silverware down the garbage disposal and leave it he said I had too many house rules.” – GotGhostsInMyBlood

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“My wife’s entire family not grasping that you need to put water in a steam iron.” – hadleybox

9.

“My wonderful, selfless, beautiful younger brother asked me how to make ice last year. He’s 24.” – Cat_Vonnegut

10.

“I asked my husband to make some herbal tea for me the first year we were married. I walked into the kitchen to find him standing over the stove with a mug of water sitting directly on the burner. Poor baby.” – eternalsunshine85

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“I had to teach my boss how to “go down to the next line” by hitting Enter on his computer keyboard.” – Kcups

12.

“My ex best friend had told me that she had needed to buy another new vacuum cleaner, the 3rd that month. I asked her what was wrong with it and she said, “It’s not picking things up anymore!” So I asked if she had dumped out the container… she didn’t know that was a thing.” – Winterlight8044

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“Not sure if this counts but when I took a food-safe course someone asked if they could wash a turkey with dish soap. He failed the course.” – SaltyJerm

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“Every few weeks I catch my roommate trying to put his metal tea strainer in the microwave. This is inspite of the fact that our first week living in this apartment, he destroyed the microwave and had to pay for a new one because he put a metal tea strainer in the microwave.” – MeesterPepper

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“My friend in college once lamented, “Ugh. I have to pee and I just put a tampon in like five minutes ago. I hate having to pull them out dry. Also, it’s such a waste.”

Her mother taught her that there is only one hole down there and peeing with a tampon in is not possible. It will f**k up your bladder. Took a lot of me showing articles and diagrams and answering questions to convince her there are, indeed, two holes. She peed while the tampon was still in and called her mother in utter shock to share the good news.” – BroffaloSoldier

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“She made brownies from a box. The box instructions say “grease the bottom of an 8×8 pan before pouring in the brownie batter.” You bet your **s this b**ch picked up the 8×8 pan, flipped it over, greased the BOTTOM of it, and then flipped it back over and poured in the brownie batter.” – TopRamenisha

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“More of a how do you not know to not do this. First year at uni, a girl in my halls is microwaving some food and left it in the metal foil container… It took 3 fire engines to put out the fire and we had to have a new kitchen installed. Not to mention, this was at like 3am and I had an exam the next day. I was not impressed.” – sumandark8600

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“She wanted to make pasta. She put a pot on the stove and poured the noodles in (no water in the pot), turned on the stove. After a while she asked me, “How come these aren’t getting soft like when my mom makes them?”” – TopRamenisha

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“I had a relative try to put her son on the school bus his first day of kindergarten and got upset when the driver refused to let him on because he wasn’t on the list. She never registered him for school and just thought she could put him on the bus and send him.” – whotiesyourshoes

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“A girl I knew in college. Her dad called once to remind her that every so often she needed to put oil in her truck. She did. Then her truck started smelling like french fries and then died. Even after trying to explain it, she couldn’t understand that this was directly related to the quart of vegetable oil she put in the motor.” – snowman818