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

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Anonymous wrote:What do you call a suitcase with wheels that you put in the overhead bin on an airplane?

I always called it a rollerboard but someone recently told me that it's roll-aboard. And google tells me it's up for debate.

Last I knew, it’s a rolling suitcase?!

Nope, it's a carry-on!

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Anonymous wrote:What do you call a suitcase with wheels that you put in the overhead bin on an airplane?

I always called it a rollerboard but someone recently told me that it's roll-aboard. And google tells me it's up for debate.

Last I knew, it’s a rolling suitcase?!

Nope, it's a carry-on!

Not if it's too big for carry on. I didn't know there was a special name. Aren't these what people mean when they say spinners?

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Anonymous wrote:That you are supposed to give a hostess gift when you go to someone's house. I grew up middle class, and the only people we ever entertained were lower middle class family.

I learned this in college. Extremely embarrassing.

I'm fifty and just learned this right now. None of my middle class / lower middle class family and friends did this

Isn’t this just done when one is hosting a party?

No. When someone invites us over, we take a bottle of wine, a six pack of beer, some cookies, whatever. My DD has a friend who brings over a snack every time they have a playdate, I think it's great of her parents to teach her such good manners at an early age, we've started doing it too - either a snack or a craft.

I grew up solidly middle class and our family friends were of a varied socioeconomic group, this was always the case. I grew up in the midwest, so perhaps that's why. In my opinion, people are more polite, generous, and mindful of others in the Midwest.

I grew up in Michigan, rural and working class (blue collar and agricultural). This is not a thing, unless there’s a new baby, someone is sick/dying/dead, a party or a holiday (with or without a party).

I agree with Michigan. Grew up in Minnesota.

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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.

https://skilltrekker.com/

No reason you can’t learn now, with or without kids.

I had a neighbor, a middle aged H.S. principal who was working on an advanced degree, also a single parent with several sons, and she was in a pickle one day with a low tire and none of her boys around, so I rode along with her to show her how to check the air, fill the tire at the gas station. She was no coddled urban mom either--she was a Native American who grew up on a pretty remote and poverty stricken reservation although to a family that was better off than many.

I remember times in college when I was with people and someone would have a flat and I was SO impressed people just knew how to change a tire. Didn't want them to see how incompetent I was so I'd just kind of casually stand around. I assumed everyone else knew how. I did observe, at least. The first time I had a flat tire and was alone, it was in the country, it was dark, AND it was raining. But I did it (even knew you don't tighten the lug nuts going around in a circle). I was SO proud of myself. And when it realized that knowing how to connect battery cables correctly to jump a car is NOT something written in the Y chromosome, I decided I'd better know how to do it.

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Anonymous wrote:What do you call a suitcase with wheels that you put in the overhead bin on an airplane?

I always called it a rollerboard but someone recently told me that it's roll-aboard. And google tells me it's up for debate.

Last I knew, it’s a rolling suitcase?!

Nope, it's a carry-on!

Not if it's too big for carry on. I didn't know there was a special name. Aren't these what people mean when they say spinners?

I always thought a roll-aboard was carry-on suitcase with wheels. Because you roll it aboard the airplane.

Bigger suitcases with wheels are just suitcases with wheels. You don't roll them onto the airplane with you, so not roll-aboards.

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Tossing in a misheard song lyric! Just saw on satellite radio the title for Paul McCartney's song, "Maybe I'm amazed..."

I've been singing it as *Baby* I'm Amazed...and I have to say, prefer my version!

I'm 52 and should know better!

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In my 30s learned a pony is not a baby horse

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Anonymous wrote:Reposting link
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/andyneuenschwander/16-super-obvious-things-that-people-just-realized

Did you actually read that? I only saw one overlap.

Plus it’s very clear he’s hanging out at reddit to get the story

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Anonymous wrote:In my 30s learned a pony is not a baby horse

Wait. Lol, what is it?!

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I didn't know that men didn't need to wipe until I got married at 32.

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Anonymous wrote:I was in grad school when someone had to explain what “take a dump” meant.

In high school, one guy said he’d meet us an hour later. Completely naive, I asked what could possibly be that necessary. At which point he choked out that he needed to use the bathroom. Everyone was snickering, and I obliviously asked why he couldn’t just take about three minutes and go. So, this poor guy was completely red and told one of the girls to explain while he fled. I’d never been constipated in my life, so taking 30 minutes to just sit and then needing to shower and relax after (figure out a year later that he was going to manually handle the issue, since we were all going dancing) was completely foreign.

What? He was going to do what? Maybe I’m today years old and learning something new

Wait I am needing an answer to this, moderately desperately.

Was he masturbating? Wtf would you do 'manually' for constipation? I'm also today (+ 5 days with NO RESPONSE) years old before I learned this apparently

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Anonymous wrote:In my 30s learned a pony is not a baby horse

Wait. Lol, what is it?!

A pony is a small horse, not a baby horse.

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Anonymous wrote:I was in grad school when someone had to explain what “take a dump” meant.

In high school, one guy said he’d meet us an hour later. Completely naive, I asked what could possibly be that necessary. At which point he choked out that he needed to use the bathroom. Everyone was snickering, and I obliviously asked why he couldn’t just take about three minutes and go. So, this poor guy was completely red and told one of the girls to explain while he fled. I’d never been constipated in my life, so taking 30 minutes to just sit and then needing to shower and relax after (figure out a year later that he was going to manually handle the issue, since we were all going dancing) was completely foreign.

What? He was going to do what? Maybe I’m today years old and learning something new

Wait I am needing an answer to this, moderately desperately.

Was he masturbating? Wtf would you do 'manually' for constipation? I'm also today (+ 5 days with NO RESPONSE) years old before I learned this apparently

Yes how do you manually handle using the bathroom? As a man? I know what you can do as a woman. (Reach into your vagina and press against back wall to prompt poo out — gross but it can be done).

For a man? What?

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Anonymous wrote:I was in grad school when someone had to explain what “take a dump” meant.

In high school, one guy said he’d meet us an hour later. Completely naive, I asked what could possibly be that necessary. At which point he choked out that he needed to use the bathroom. Everyone was snickering, and I obliviously asked why he couldn’t just take about three minutes and go. So, this poor guy was completely red and told one of the girls to explain while he fled. I’d never been constipated in my life, so taking 30 minutes to just sit and then needing to shower and relax after (figure out a year later that he was going to manually handle the issue, since we were all going dancing) was completely foreign.

What? He was going to do what? Maybe I’m today years old and learning something new

Wait I am needing an answer to this, moderately desperately.

Was he masturbating? Wtf would you do 'manually' for constipation? I'm also today (+ 5 days with NO RESPONSE) years old before I learned this apparently

Yes how do you manually handle using the bathroom? As a man? I know what you can do as a woman. (Reach into your vagina and press against back wall to prompt poo out — gross but it can be done).

For a man? What?

Digital stimulation.

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Anonymous wrote:My husband thought that antelope roamed the prairie just like in the song "Home on the Range." He was easily in his 40s when I had to break it to him that there were no antelope in the U.S.

The antelopes in North America are Pronghorns. There are antelopes.