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

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I've bought and sold several houses, am an intelligent person, manage other complex transactions and I still to this day do not understand real estate agent commissions and how the buyer/seller agent % work. When I try to negotiate them, I talk the fee down but don't understand the relationship between the two. It's like my brain just shuts down any time it is explained to me.

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When do you put on the high beams versus regular headlights for nighttime driving? And if you have them on, are you supposed to turn them down when a car is approaching so the driver isn’t blinded?

I’m not embarrassed but I still don’t know. I don’t drive much at all, let alone at night.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When do you put on the high beams versus regular headlights for nighttime driving? And if you have them on, are you supposed to turn them down when a car is approaching so the driver isn’t blinded?

I’m not embarrassed but I still don’t know. I don’t drive much at all, let alone at night.

Yes, you click them off when someone is approaching. I grew up in the country, and high-beams are a necessity on back roads, but I have rarely used them since moving to the DC metro area, because the streets I drive on at night are usually well-lit.

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Anonymous wrote:When do you put on the high beams versus regular headlights for nighttime driving? And if you have them on, are you supposed to turn them down when a car is approaching so the driver isn’t blinded?

I’m not embarrassed but I still don’t know. I don’t drive much at all, let alone at night.

Yes, you click them off when someone is approaching. I grew up in the country, and high-beams are a necessity on back roads, but I have rarely used them since moving to the DC metro area, because the streets I drive on at night are usually well-lit.

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've bought and sold several houses, am an intelligent person, manage other complex transactions and I still to this day do not understand real estate agent commissions and how the buyer/seller agent % work. When I try to negotiate them, I talk the fee down but don't understand the relationship between the two. It's like my brain just shuts down any time it is explained to me.

Because it doesn't make sense. The agent is supposed to represent you and the seller but gets a percentage of the selling price. Obviously, that's a conflict of interest.

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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.

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Anonymous wrote:1. That Alaska is attached to Canada. It was always off floating with Hawaii when we learned it in school. I always thought it was an island off the coast of Canada until I was in my 20s.

Similar to this,I always thought Alaska cruises went to what I thought was the main part of Alaska, but really it is a tail along the coastline.

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that what you eat

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Anonymous wrote:When do you put on the high beams versus regular headlights for nighttime driving? And if you have them on, are you supposed to turn them down when a car is approaching so the driver isn’t blinded?

I’m not embarrassed but I still don’t know. I don’t drive much at all, let alone at night.

Yes, you click them off when someone is approaching. I grew up in the country, and high-beams are a necessity on back roads, but I have rarely used them since moving to the DC metro area, because the streets I drive on at night are usually well-lit.

Thanks!

You want them when you're on back roads because there are no street lights and the high beams allow you to see further and wider.

But you need to click them down if you see large game animals like bear or deer because the high beams can cause deer to freeze or startle and that is an extreme safety hazard for both you and the animal if they freeze/startle in your path and you hit them with your car.

Two other uses of high beams:
- if someone blinks their high beams at you as you're approaching them in your car from an opposite direction then it is a signal to you that there is a speed trap coming up for your lane/s of traffic, and
- if you are behind an 18-wheeler in an adjacent lane and the trucker needs to move into your lane but is unsure where you are relative to the end of his truck, then you can blink your high beams at him to indicate that there is space for him to pull in front of you.

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I thought marriage was supposed to be monogamous. My wife proved otherwise. I'm such a jerk but not stupid because we had a prenup.

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Anonymous wrote:That if a police car with lights on, ambulance with lights on, fire truck with lights on and a post office truck arrive at a four way stop sign at exact same time who goes first?

Answer is Post Office truck as Federal Vehicles Have right of way over state and local vehicles

That’s odd. Who goes second?

Who’s on first.

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Anonymous wrote:That the average size of a mans package is about 5 inches. Not 9.

Which did you think was normal? The 9 inches?

This person appears to have thought 9 inches was normal.

I think 7-8 is normal. 5 is not.

6 inches is average. Most guys can manage to stick a ruler way into their abdomen to convince themselves that they’re actually 7 or 8 instead of 6.

PPs must be with small guys. 7 is avg

Wrong. 5.2 is average.

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Anonymous wrote:That the average size of a mans package is about 5 inches. Not 9.

Which did you think was normal? The 9 inches?

This person appears to have thought 9 inches was normal.

I think 7-8 is normal. 5 is not.

6 inches is average. Most guys can manage to stick a ruler way into their abdomen to convince themselves that they’re actually 7 or 8 instead of 6.

PPs must be with small guys. 7 is avg

Wrong. 5.2 is average.

Actually 5.16

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When do you put on the high beams versus regular headlights for nighttime driving? And if you have them on, are you supposed to turn them down when a car is approaching so the driver isn’t blinded?

I’m not embarrassed but I still don’t know. I don’t drive much at all, let alone at night.

Yes, you click them off when someone is approaching. I grew up in the country, and high-beams are a necessity on back roads, but I have rarely used them since moving to the DC metro area, because the streets I drive on at night are usually well-lit.

You also click them off if you are coming up behind someone. High beams shine in the rear view or side mirrors and are blinding.

[Anonymous]

I always sucked at washing my windshields with the gas station washers. Every time I finish, the windows are dripping and filled with streaks. Last month, I was at the gas station with my boyfriend and he started laughing at me. He said "you know you are supposed to dry from the top to the bottom right." I turned bright red. It never occured to me that you need to dry your windows going from top to bottom, or else the water would just drip downwards and ruin it.


My technique for those who are curious. I turn the wiper sideways and was from side to side, continuing until U get to the top.Then I dry afterwords.