31 Times Someone Had a Total Lack of Common Sense
‘I caught my mum trying to squeeze lighter fluid into a butane blowtorch the other day’
There’s a common line drawn in intelligence between “book smarts” and “street smarts.” To make it simple, book smarts are the sort of things you might expect to see on a Scantron-based test. Street smarts are more of a constant test, seeing how likely you are to poison or electrocute yourself.
Redditors shared some of the most completely mind-boggling lapses of common sense by otherwise normal enough people. Some of them hold honest-to-god PhDs, but apparently none of their college credits covered what you can put in a microwave, for example.
Keep reading for some decisions that would make the Three Stooges wince.
