20 Things People Didn't Know They Were Doing Wrong for Way Too Long

The world is a confusing, terrifying place. It’s full of strange machines you have to operate in order to meet your most basic of needs. There are all sorts of unspoken rules of polite society, and if you flub any of them, you might be cast out of it for the foreseeable future. The McRib disappears and returns without any warning or reason.

You have to cut people some slack, then, if they don’t figure everything out right away. Or for several decades. Or even just one, really obvious thing. The truth is, we can all recall with embarrassment a time when a deceptively simple task proved impossible to our stupid caveman brains, if only until someone pointed it out, laughing at our failure. That’s why user adeptwarrior asked r/AskReddit, “What’s an ‘oh shit’ moment where you realized you’ve been doing something the wrong way for years?”