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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On highway exit signs, if the exit is on the right, the exit number is on the right of the sign. If the exit is on the left, the exit number is on the left of the sign.

No way. Please tell me that you are making this up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On highway exit signs, if the exit is on the right, the exit number is on the right of the sign. If the exit is on the left, the exit number is on the left of the sign.

No way. Please tell me that you are making this up.

DP, but this is true

[Anonymous]

OP here! These are all great! There are still so many day to day things I don’t know how to do even now: sew a button, change a tire, any kind of DIY home repair.

I’m sure I’ll get flack for this, but I also have no knowledge of financial stuff. DH is in that field and handles it all. He discusses decisions and options with me but I have to have him explain it to me like I’m 5 so I can understand. I’m good with staying within a budget and saving, but I don’t understand anything else about financial planning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here! These are all great! There are still so many day to day things I don’t know how to do even now: sew a button, change a tire, any kind of DIY home repair.

I’m sure I’ll get flack for this, but I also have no knowledge of financial stuff. DH is in that field and handles it all. He discusses decisions and options with me but I have to have him explain it to me like I’m 5 so I can understand. I’m good with staying within a budget and saving, but I don’t understand anything else about financial planning.

Aren’t you terrify what happens if he dies or you divorce?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The difference between e.g. and i.e. Was blissfully using them interchangeably until my mid 40s.

I am an editor. There are a lot of you out there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP here! These are all great! There are still so many day to day things I don’t know how to do even now: sew a button, change a tire, any kind of DIY home repair.

I’m sure I’ll get flack for this, but I also have no knowledge of financial stuff. DH is in that field and handles it all. He discusses decisions and options with me but I have to have him explain it to me like I’m 5 so I can understand. I’m good with staying within a budget and saving, but I don’t understand anything else about financial planning.

Aren’t you terrify what happens if he dies or you divorce?

I know what we have in accounts and we have a financial planner as well. DH has written it all down as well. I’ve tried to learn more, but it just doesn’t make that much sense to me. I contribute to my 403B and other retirement vehicles, but the stock market and things like that are like Greek to me.

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Anonymous wrote:How to make the gas pump itself at the pump by clicking that switch on the handle.

I’ve tried 500000 times and I can’t do it. My DH does.

You physically can't do it? It's like a kickstand for a bicycle. It's just a little wedge thing that locks into place. I learned this when I was 15 and learning to drive (25 years ago)

It's not available in every state. It's not allowed in NY. You have to hold the handle the whole time there.

This is not true at all. I live in NY and I use them all the time.

Do- I think CT is one if the state’s that doesn’t allow them. I seem to have bad memories of being on I95 holding down the gas handle.

I'm from Connecticut. They definitely have those locking gas pump thingies. Unless the locking piece is missing, in which case you do have to hold the handle, but I've experienced such broken handles in many states.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Too embarrassing to even mention here.

Oh, come on. It’s anonymous! And all good fun. Now you have to tell us. Spill it!

[Anonymous]

I'm 47 and still can't figure out how to work a bidet.

[Anonymous]

The saying, “Life isn’t fair.”

[Anonymous]

I was raised Catholic, with a good dose of Catholic guilt. Growing up, we attended Mass weekly and on holy days, and recited the creed, including "We believe in one holy Catholic and apostolic church."
We attended church at a few different parishes to accommodate sports and activities schedules.

As a kid, I thought that "one holy Catholic and apostolic church" meant that you had to go to the same actual church each week. We didn't, so I felt really guilty about it, but I didn't want to say anything to my parents. I guess I felt so guilty about it that I never explored what it meant until one Sunday, as a young adult, I was in Mass reciting the creed and went . . . "Oh, that's what it means." Idiot. I'd been feeling guilty all those years.

[Anonymous]

That you were supposed to tip your mail carrier at Christmas. I grew up with immigrant parents and can't remember them ever discussing/doing this - had no idea people did until I was an adult and in my own house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That you were supposed to tip your mail carrier at Christmas. I grew up with immigrant parents and can't remember them ever discussing/doing this - had no idea people did until I was an adult and in my own house.

It’s a nicety in some MC communities, but was never something all Americans did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That you were supposed to tip your mail carrier at Christmas. I grew up with immigrant parents and can't remember them ever discussing/doing this - had no idea people did until I was an adult and in my own house.

And school bus driver.

[Anonymous]

How to use nail clippers.