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.

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.

I didn’t have access to a bike. We were too poor for our own and besides, my mom kept us inside hoping we wouldn’t get shot. I made sure my own kids learned. I hope to learn myself this summer.

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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.

Maybe they grew up abroad (driving), had neglectful or very poor parents (cooking and swimming and riding a bike). And once you grow up, it requires time, money, and effort to learn it. Plus overcome embarrassment because of people like you.
Signed,
Someone who learned to drive at 36

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Anonymous wrote:A friend in college thought penises were detachable, since in the text books the diagrams had them off the body. Also didn’t know they got bigger. Was an interesting morning conversation.

Did this friend listen to King Missile by any chance?

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I didn't understand why there was both license AND registration for cars.

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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

Also, they count the miles from south to north and west to east, which seems upside down and backwards. And the posts between the mile markers are generally 1/10 of a mile. It's not just the beginning of the interstate, the count starts (generally) at the borders of states.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Just FYI, people started saying “bucket list” a lot after a movie with Jack Nicholson, The Bucket List:

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I thought there was a drink called Roman Coke, which I had ordered and talked about many times. But then I was driving in Maryland, and mentioned to a friend that hey, that city Roman Coke is like the drink! Friend said you mean rum and coke, not Roman coke. I think my assumption came from ordering in loud bars.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Just FYI, people started saying “bucket list” a lot after a movie with Jack Nicholson, The Bucket List:

Yes. I have some things on my own "bucket list" that I want to get to while I'm still young enough and physically able to do them.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Just FYI, people started saying “bucket list” a lot after a movie with Jack Nicholson, The Bucket List:

You mean a lot before? The expression was widely used way before the movie.

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Sexting using a phone — the last time I was on the market was in the 90s

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I had no clue what a 69 was. Didn’t find out until I was 26/27. I’m 37.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought there was a drink called Roman Coke, which I had ordered and talked about many times. But then I was driving in Maryland, and mentioned to a friend that hey, that city Roman Coke is like the drink! Friend said you mean rum and coke, not Roman coke. I think my assumption came from ordering in loud bars.

Do you mean Roanoke?

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Anonymous wrote:I thought there was a drink called Roman Coke, which I had ordered and talked about many times. But then I was driving in Maryland, and mentioned to a friend that hey, that city Roman Coke is like the drink! Friend said you mean rum and coke, not Roman coke. I think my assumption came from ordering in loud bars.

LoL. We go to Bethany a lot, and during the last trip my DH (in his 50s) commented that he couldn't believe that people got away with naming a city after a rum and coke. I told him that I was pretty certain that Romancoke was a native American word that predated the drink by a very long time, but he was very wedded to this theory and kept arguing. I had to read three entries from my google search before he capitulated. My teens still make fun of him for this, as well they should.

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I'm 53 and still don't know how to fold a fitted sheet. Have watched online tutorials and still can't master it!

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In the song Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, there’s a line about “in the new year our troubles will be out of sight.” I thought until recently it meant that next year, our troubles will be out of control, so enjoy Christmas while you can. I am 48.

(I’m a lifelong anxiety sufferer lol.)