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

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone should know how to drive. It's a life skill that could come in handy even if you don't regularly drive. What if zombies are coming? And not the slow ones, the fast mutated ones? You'd feel pretty silly if you were eaten when there was a car in the street with the keys in it.

Given the theme of this thread, I guess this is where we have to break the news to you that there are no zombies.

Well, they’d be here if there were any. Nobody likes a pound of flesh like this crowd.

Literally.

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Anonymous wrote:There are still things I haven't learned at age 50, like how to rent a car.

Don't feel bad. While I've rented a car before, I'm not sure how to use Uber/Lyft and I've never flown on a plane by myself. The few times I have flown someone experienced has sort of led me through the airport and I just followed along letting them lead me, it all seems so confusing. If I had to navigate a big airport by myself I know I'd be lost which is sort of scary.

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Anonymous wrote:That the exit numbers on 270 indicate how many miles you are from the start of 270. I just assumed they were random numbers and skipped numbers in the event future exits were built. Not one of my smartest moments.

It's not just 270. It's all interstates. I just learned this last week... my boyfriend was explaining to me that if we are at exit 16 and need to get off at 26 we have 10 miles to go. I had no idea.

I did, however, always know that the numbers start over at state borders.

Not necessarily. There are a number of states (Connecticut, Massachusetts, NH, Vermont, Delaware, Rhode Island, most interstates in New York) where the interstate exits are not based on mileage, but are in sequential order

Mileage based exits are federally mandated now, so the states that haven't switched yet will be doing so soon (or lose federal highway funding). Massachusetts is starting next summer and will be done by 2022.

Be that as it may, not all interstates now (or before) had mileage based exits

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My DH could never keep straight which were the eyebrows and which were the eyelashes until I started playfully mocking him about it in his late 30s. That motivated him to figure it out and he has it down now.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone should know how to drive. It's a life skill that could come in handy even if you don't regularly drive. What if zombies are coming? And not the slow ones, the fast mutated ones? You'd feel pretty silly if you were eaten when there was a car in the street with the keys in it.

Idk about the zombies, but I do agree with the rest. I think there are certain life skills that everyone should know. I’m always baffled by grown people who can’t cook, drive, swim or ride a bike.

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Anonymous wrote:How vulgar the word sucks is.

I guess I still haven’t figured that out. I just can’t get worked up about someone saying “That sucks!”

It relates to oral sex.

Which is why some people says “that blows” as a substitute.

I feel like whoever came up with these terms as insults was doing it wrong. Or, more likely, their partner was.

Nah. It always sucks or blows for the woman. Anyone who claims it’s a pleasant experience (for the woman) is just lying to make herself seem like a cool girl to her boyfriend.

I do think whoever came up with blows as an equivalent was doing/receiving it wrong. You don’t really blow into it. It’s not a flute.

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I just found out that Carolyn Keene, author of the Nancy Drew series, was actually several different authors writing under that pen name!

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Husband is an MD and I think he literally missed out on at least 15 years of current events, politics, and pop culture.

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I'm catholic and from Northern Virginia. I was in seventh or eighth grade before it dawned on me that it's "for the good of all His church" and not "the good of Fall's Church".

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Anonymous wrote:I'm catholic and from Northern Virginia. I was in seventh or eighth grade before it dawned on me that it's "for the good of all His church" and not "the good of Fall's Church".

Omg I love this!

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Just last week I learned that it's called a "bucket list" because it's things you want to do before you kick the bucket.

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Anonymous wrote:My DH could never keep straight which were the eyebrows and which were the eyelashes until I started playfully mocking him about it in his late 30s. That motivated him to figure it out and he has it down now.

I love this one.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm catholic and from Northern Virginia. I was in seventh or eighth grade before it dawned on me that it's "for the good of all His church" and not "the good of Fall's Church".

Omg I love this!

St. Bernadette's parishioner here (mid 70s)and yes! All those prayers for Falls Church!

And, in the spirit of confession, I confess that I thought for a very long time (probably a teenager) that the bells heard just before communion were part of the "miracle" of communion. Yes, I thought the quick ring was divine intervention, that God for a brief moment made bells chime. I must have always been deep in prayer but finally looked up and saw an altar boy ringing the bells.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm catholic and from Northern Virginia. I was in seventh or eighth grade before it dawned on me that it's "for the good of all His church" and not "the good of Fall's Church".

LMAO

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Anonymous wrote:I did not know until college that pickles came from cucumbers.

I did not know until this post.

No wonder I don't like pickles since I don't like cucumbers...

I love cucumbers and hate pickles.