Listen, we all have a moment or two when our common sense…goes missing.

Here are some of the top-voted responses:

1.

He thought bees grew up into wasps during the summer.

Gordon Ramsay in a kitchen saying, "I can't teach you that, 'cause that's common sense!"

I love him, but…HOW?!"

u/JobRich7841

2.

In the bedroom, I remarked that I would like to get new bedside lamps.

A bee is flying towards a yellow flower with several petals in focus

The ones we had were from his bachelor apartment over a decade ago.

Dear gentle reader, the light bulbs had not lasted that long.

He just was never the one to change them."

The image shows the rear wheel of a car parked on a grassy roadside in a forested area

u/Feral-Librarian

3. u/Shawnaldo7575

4.

I was keeping it outside and he insisted that he would not eat “dirty” food.

I just looked at him with a dumbfounded look.

Person holding a smartphone and scanning a package with a barcode

I didn’t know how to respond."

u/butteryvagina

5.

He figured it out after I stared at him in shock."

Fresh broccoli heads and florets on a wooden table with a dark cloth. A wooden bowl filled with broccoli is in the background

u/Aldroe

6. u/Luet_box

7.

He thought broccoli naturally comes in bite-sized florets."

u/greenash4

8.

Map of North Dakota and South Dakota showing cities including Bismarck, Pierre, Fargo, and Rapid City, with highways, rivers, and political boundaries

“He thought potatoes never go bad because his mom always kept a bag in the pantry.

I asked him if they ate a lot of potatoes and he said yes.

They have a large family with six kids and it still didn’t click.”

A teal dog waste bag holder with a roll of black waste bags partially dispensed and another roll of black waste bags beside it

u/glightlysay

9.

“Love my wife, but South Dakota is not north of North Dakota.”

u/Ttot1025

10. u/NoHedgehog252

11.

A farmer in boots and a cap feeds cows in a grassy field with a water trough in the background

“My partner was grunting and groaning at the bin.

He said We need new bin bags, these ones youve bought dont bloody fit.

u/Pinapickle

12.

Full moon shining brightly in a star-filled night sky, with clouds scattered below

“She didn’t know that a ‘rhino’ and a ‘rhinoceros’ are the same thing.

She thought rhinoceroses didn’t exist anymore because dinosaurs are extinct.”

u/Mono_Clear

13.

Pregnant woman lying on a black couch, wearing a striped dress, with a pained expression while holding her forehead

I said ‘cows’ in a you-must-be-shitting-me level of disbelief.

I had to pull up Google to prove to him that brown cows existed.

u/AnericanSteel412

14.

Leslie Jones, with a surprised expression, is shown with text overlay: "So, that level of stupid does exist. Wow……"

He thought they meant the dog was depressed.”

u/Ok-Cause-3710

15.

“We served in the US Peace Corps together in Uganda.

One day, it was really sunny out.

She said, ‘The moon is going to be really bright tonight.’

We argued about this and ended up talking to her mother on the phone.

She confirmed her daughter’s hypothesis.”

u/Apuuli21

16.

“When he spent an hour arguing cows are from England and bulls are from Spain.”

u/Squeak_Stormborn

17.

“My husband was feeling unwell and began googling his symptoms.

u/snow-ninja

18. u/smallboxofcrayons

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