26 Obvious Truths People Learned Too Late in Life
We all learn and grow at our pace, though some of us, learn much, much slower than they'd like to admit.
Published 1 year ago in Funny
We all learn and grow at our pace, though some of us, learn much, much slower than they'd like to admit. We all have our own version of "I was today years old when I realized..." Some of us are just braver than others and willing to admit what our mental deficiencies are.
So in honor of feeling better about ourselves, here are 26 people who learned simple truth a bit too late in life, but hey, at least in the end they did get things right.
For me, I was older than I'd like to admit when I realized that pickles are "pickled cucumbers" but I sure wasn't in my 20's.
So if you also thought those two people on the crosswalk sign were women carrying their purses, then you're in good company here.
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I am 19 and I have had ADHD and a sleeping disorder my whole life. I decided to go to the doctor and figure out wtf was wrong with me after I turned 18. Turned out I wasn’t stupid just undiagnosed going without meds. So now just about every adult looks at me like a lazy bum that fell asleep in every class and couldn’t pay attention or understand assignments. When I got on meds (senior year) I was #16 of my class in the top 20%.9
I was like 25 when I found out the jugs of washer fluid outside the gas station aren’t free. I was walking out of the gas station with a buddy one day, grabbed a jug of washer fluid, and he asked me “did you just steal that?” And I was like “No, dude, it’s free”. It’s not, I stole washer fluid for nearly ten years of driving and no one ever said anything to me about it.15
Learned I was allergic to latex from talking to my friend. She told me that since I’m allergic to some citrus I may be allergic to latex and asked me if condoms bothered me. I responded and said yes but they bother everyone who uses them. That’s how I learned that burning and itching and a road rash are not normal after coitus with a condom. (I’m 26).19
I learned where "Pulling out all the stops" came from a couple of years ago (watching a documentary on Interstellar's music). It's from playing organs...air is blown thru the organ's pipes to play notes - and you have "stops" in there if you don't want a particular pipe to play. So when you pull out all the stops, you get all the pipes playing...22
I grew up in Poland. When a person was arrested on a crime that was publicized, the media will only list their first name and the first initial of last name, to protect their identity before conviction, e.g. Peter G. My friend thought that all criminals had one letter last names and he was surprised the police wouldn’t just go all Minority Report on them and arrest all people with one letter last names.23
I'm Norwegian, and was at least thirty before I realized that the tomatoes crossing the road schoolyard joke (two tomatoes cross the road, one gets run over, the other says "Come on, catch up") has, in what I assume is the original English, a punchline. Well, for a schoolyard joke, anyway. Norwegian kids tell the same joke, but there's no catch up/ketchup pun in Norwegian, so they just tell a joke where the squashed tomato is now ketchup. At some point a kid who knew enough English to have heard the joke but not enough for the pun told it to younger kids, who assumed it was funny because an older kid was telling it, and it has been repeated between children for generations.
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