What commonly known thing did you learn at an embarrassingly older age?

[Anonymous]

You all are making me crave Turkish delight.

[Anonymous]

Sara from the land before time was a nickname for triCERAtops

[Anonymous]

That you should hover on public toilets, not touch them. Toilet seats are encrusted with foul bacteria

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve shared this one before. When my husband started a new job and purchased some very nice dress shirts, I wanted to be helpful and get them ready for him. I opened them, removed all the straight pins, threw out the cardboard under the collars and the little plastic tabs tucked into the collars. I washed and ironed them and had them all ready to wear. The first time my dh put one on, he asked where the collar stays were. I had no idea what a collar stay was. I felt so bad that I went back to Nordstrom and bought brass collar stays, which he still uses 20 years later.

On a similar note, I sometimes see grown-ups who leave the tag on the arm of their suit jacket or of their overcoat. The tag you're suppose to cut off. I want to say something to them but never do.

Yes what are you supposed to say to them???

[Anonymous]

When I married my husband he didn’t know Thanksgiving is always on a Thursday.

[Anonymous]

That “this little piggy went to market” meant it was going to be sold as meat. I thought it was going to the grocery store.

[Anonymous]

I used to think “POW MIA” was pronounced “powmia,” not “P.O.W. M.I.A.”

[Anonymous]

That headphones had a Right and Left ear. I’d didn’t know it mattered until I was 30.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 17 year old recently informed me that up until a few weeks ago, she thought Martha's Vineyard was the personal estate of Martha Stewart.

I worry.

It isn't?

I would guess that most 17 year olds have never ever heard of Martha's Vineyard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 17 year old recently informed me that up until a few weeks ago, she thought Martha's Vineyard was the personal estate of Martha Stewart.

I worry.

It isn't?

I would guess that most 17 year olds have never ever heard of Martha's Vineyard.

And, perhaps, Martha Stewart as well.

[Anonymous]

Until I was in my 20s, I couldn’t ever remember how many days were in February. I thought it varied between as few as 24-26 days some years to 27-29 others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Being a reader more than a talker, I grew up mispronouncing several common words based on their phonetic spelling. Misled (MYzled), Infrared (InFRAIRed), etc.

I proudly stood up to do a book report in 8th grade, and pronounced a quote with the word chaos as "chah- oss" and the teacher laughed and called me out.

I also had only ever read the word sonofabitch, and didn't really know it was 3 words ... So I got really angry at my cousin at a family reunion and yelled YOU SAH-NOFFFFA-BITCH! I had no clue it was son- of - a - bitch.

My tea just came out of my nose laughing at this. Totally something that I would do.

[Anonymous]

I thought infamous meant really, really famous. I didn’t know it meant famous for being bad until my 20s.

[Anonymous]

I was about 20 before I realized you had to open the paper tea bag to put the actual tea bag in steaming water.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That “this little piggy went to market” meant it was going to be sold as meat. I thought it was going to the grocery store.

I never realized that either until just now. 48 y.o.