30 of the Wildest Wrong Assumptions People Made

Wrong assumptions have served as the catalyst for some seriously embarrassing moments. It makes sense that people would try to put two and two together on their own, but there are times when just asking a question can spare them from having to do any math at all. 

One Redditor remembered the time someone tried (and failed) to crunch some numbers about her, and wound up at an embarrassingly wrong conclusion in front of an entire dinner party. People kept offering her alcoholic drinks that she continued to politely decline, which prompted one of the other guests to sleuth out a reason for the behavior. After a while, her eyes lit up as she looked back and forth at the Redditor and her husband. “Oh my gosh, are you pregnant?” she asked. The Redditor laughed and responded, “No, I have epilepsy.” 

She was handed no more glasses of wine after that.  

This sobering scenario is one of many cringey wrong assumptions people have made. From language barriers to divorce court proceedings, here are some of the times peoples’ detective skills were way off…