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

[Anonymous]

I didn’t know until my 30s that the sticker you get when you check a bag is your baggage check claim. I thought they were just handing you back trash to dispose of. Obviously I learned my lesson when my suitcase was lost and they asked me for the check claim and I didn’t have it. I don’t know how I never learned about that considering I traveled with my family growing up.

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

[Anonymous]

That Michigan has two separate parts.

[Anonymous]

I always thought there was a saying “we’ll burn that bridge when we get to it”. As an adult I learned it was two separate sayings.

[Anonymous]

Jewelry isn't pronounced "jewel-ery"

[Anonymous]

The saying that "It's always in the last place you look" is literal. It's the last place because you found it! Don't know why that never clicked for me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I didn’t know until my 30s that the sticker you get when you check a bag is your baggage check claim. I thought they were just handing you back trash to dispose of. Obviously I learned my lesson when my suitcase was lost and they asked me for the check claim and I didn’t have it. I don’t know how I never learned about that considering I traveled with my family growing up.

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

In your defense, the claim check may have changed since you were growing up. It used to be a cardstock tag that they stapled to the envelope your ticket came in. Now that doesn't really exist with mobile boarding passes.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The saying that "It's always in the last place you look" is literal. It's the last place because you found it! Don't know why that never clicked for me.

You’ve legit blown my mind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The saying that "It's always in the last place you look" is literal. It's the last place because you found it! Don't know why that never clicked for me.

You’ve legit blown my mind.

Ha ha, I didn't get that either for a long time. I thought it was an expression of bitterness.

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

The meaning of the lyrics of most of my favorite songs from the 70s...and 80's for that matter!

[Anonymous]

That all Asians are not universally referred to as “orientals”. Thanks rural Ohio.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That all Asians are not universally referred to as “orientals”. Thanks rural Ohio.

Things are Oriental, people are Asian... they are from the continent Asia... which includes Iraq for an example.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That all Asians are not universally referred to as “orientals”. Thanks rural Ohio.

"Oriental" used to be the same as "Asian." These stupid things change. I had Vietnamese friends who used the term "Oriental" to mean "Asian" so I guess it's okay for some but not others?

[Anonymous]

That road signs that say NB mean northbound. I thought it was nota bene.