22 Times Someone’s Perspective Was Totally Bewildering

‘He didn’t realize it wasn’t in English’
22 Times Someone’s Perspective Was Totally Bewildering

If you were taking a car ride with someone along a waterway, and they said, “Whoever designed this did a good job of making it flat,” you would probably say something like, “What the hell are you talking about?” and then question everything about that person for the remainder of the ride. 

Getting that kind of glimpse into someone else’s perspective is bewildering, because while it’s true that everyone can’t know everything, there are certain things we should all know — like how land and water exist. 

Other Redditors have told harrowing tales about the times they got a peek into someone else’s mind palace, and some of these stories will make you eschew conversations for the rest of your life.

malsomnus 3y ago . This one time my shrink suggested that I approach strange women on the bus and tell them they smell nice. I... I just don't even. Is there anywhere where this wouldn't be creepy AF? + 5.1K ...
Botryoid2000 Зу ago When I was about 20, 5 friends and I went to a party. Alcohol was consumed, people started making out, flirting with each other's partners, generally acting like horny 20 year-olds. We all ended up mad at each other. We decided to write our versions of what happened and share them with each other. They were all completely different. What we saw, what we heard. All of us were in the same place at the same time, and our experiences were so different. It made me distrust history and memory. Our lives are a story we tell
UnusualGenePool 3y ago e Hearing two people recount different versions of an event that the 3 of us together witnessed was bizarre. I felt like a judge trying to decide who made the better case. + 7.8K ...
miked4o7 3y ago my wife and i were taking an uber somewhere, and we were going along the intercoastal waterway (a huge body of water that goes up a good chunk of the east side of fl). the uber driver gestures to it and says whoever designed this did a really good job of making it flat. it was the most bewildering comment i've ever heard, and i don't know which aspect is crazier... that he thought someone built it, or that he had no idea how fluids work. + 758 ...
_shes_a_jar 0 3y ago 2 When my male coworker asked me why I always drove to and from work instead of walking when I lived 10 blocks from my workplace. I told him it was because I got off work at 10:30pm and didn't wanna walk home in the dark. His response was But walking at night can be so peaceful. Dude literally didn't get it 574 ...
Dauntess11 3y ago e In my high school physics class, everyone was saying seat belts were elastic. I thought they were joking, but they were serious. I argued for a while and was totally convinced nobody (including my teacher) had ever been in a car. 278 ...
revchewie 3y ago In the 90s, I was fresh out of the Navy, living with my mom for a while, and the house we were renting had a pool. I noticed that the diving board was bolted to the concrete with two bolts. One was rusted all the way through and the other was about halfway rusted through. I told my mom about it, obviously unsafe, right? Her response was, It hasn't broken yet, it's not going to. 202 ...
bobo76565657 в Зу ago . One of my customers claimed the sky was a holograph made by the US (1000's of projectors across this great flat-earth) to hide god. I told her to buy a telescope. 58 ...
3y ago . Arguing with someone who insisted that showering uses just as much water as taking a bath. I eventually told him to just try it at home: if he has a shower/tub combo, just plug the drain, take a standard shower and see how full the tub gets by the time he's clean. His response: well that's not very scientific 40 ...
Acanofwormsisboring 3y ago A coworker emailed me asking me to call them. Nevermind they have my phone number and could have called. When I did, he immediately asked me to email him the address of a client we are meeting at Не emailed me asking to call him to ask me to email him just.... I... Yeah 27 ...
Galastique . 3y ago Hearing a group of college kids arguing about if there are 6 or 8 continents on earth.
kkc0722 3y ago I am a Barista, and the amount of people who just grab any drink that has someone else's name sticker printed on it or written on it is crazy. The other day a woman was starting to get antsy and staring down the barista making espresso, so as I organized the pick up drinks asked her, what's your name and what are you waiting for She said her name and carmel macchiato, and I told her it would just be a few more minutes. She then proceeds to grab a black iced coffee sitting on the counter,
3y ago I went to the Great Gatsby with an ex. After the movie we got to the car and I said; WOW that was a great movie, what did you think? My ex responded that she also thought it was great. I probed her a little more on what she liked and she said she just wanted to work super hard to get all those cool and pretty things that The lead characters had. I thought she was joking at first, then I realized she wasn't and was actually materialistic enough to have a movie about anti-materialism go
omgitsthegayone 3y ago . Edited Зу ago e I once spent 45 minutes with someone trying to tell them that if they got away from light pollution you could see the Milky Way. I lived about 40 minutes away from my town in the sticks, they had never been out of the city. + 7 ...
dune_jhodacia 3y ago I nannied for a really wealthy family. I mentioned that I love taking hot baths so I always keep my tub really clean. I jokingly said Not enough young people scrub their tubs these days. She looked me in the eyes and said with a straight face, Well, because their cleaning ladies do it for them. I waited to see if she was joking but no, she genuinely thought most people my age (22 at the time) had cleaning ladies that did their regular chores for them. 11 ...
Holiday_Mountain_915 3y ago to I have a rich uncle. The kind that has two homes and rents a third in the winter to get away from the cold. Is a member at multiple country clubs, etc. I'll never forget when my aunt (his wife, who hasn't worked a day in her life) said I don't think we have a lot, we live a pretty modest life. That really blew my mind 7 ...
Imaginary-Ostrich515 3y ago My friend constantly complained about her neighborhood, it was too urban too loud not nice enough ect. I was under the impression she lived in kind of a cruddy area until I visited her and saw she lived in a multi million dollar custom mansion in Monterey CA. 5 ...
LochNessMother . 3y ago e It's a really small thing, but my husband I once had a heated argument about whether a body of water was blue or green. I've come to realise that we just see colour differently. 6 ...
macncheeselove 1 3y ago . Sat next to a guy on a plane who was from the state of Georgia and had a completely different understanding of the civil war than I did, having grown up in New York. 5 ...
NessiefromtheLake 3y ago . A few weeks ago some rowdy frat boys drove up next to me and my mom. They yelled some stuff about our license plate and my mom told them to fuck off and they drove away. Asked her about it 15 minutes later and she had no idea what I was talking about. 4 ...
tristankenney Зу ago One morning in bed, my wife turned to me and said you know how when you're feel beige That was the day she (and I) worked out she has colour synesthesia. I never did work out what beige feels like... 4 ...
fatgods 3y ago I watched a foreign movie with subtitles with my dad once. A few days later, we happened to have a conversation about foreign movies and TV shows, and he said he would never watch that stuff because he wants to hear English. I pointed out that he enjoyed the foreign movie we had watched the other night. Не said that he didn't realize it wasn't in English. + 7.5K ...

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