For real. Everytime I get in the shower I end up having to point the showerhead away and cower from the cold water and I could have just turned it on first?
I'm so thrown off by our current shower which legit heats up in 2 seconds. I was so used to waiting like a minute for it to warm up, I built my rituals around that. But this one... it's just hot, like right away. Bizarre
The distance from the heater to the shower is usually the biggest factor.
Same here! Moved to an appartement so everything is closer and now I don't need to turn on the shower 5 business days before I want to shower
Parenting. You think you’re doing great and you realise at times that some of the thing a you take for granted, you haven’t taught your kids.
Just because they’ve seen you do something a thousand times doesn’t mean they understand why
As a parent, I was surprised at the amount of stuff kids need to be taught. Stuff that I assumed was obvious isn't - it's learned behaviour. And you don't realize that it's learned until you see your kid struggling with some trivial task.
As an ex kid, I only recently realised my parents taught me almost nothing. Even though I later learned a lot of very varied things, I could have started much better equipped for life. To people who chose to have kids, don't be like my parents. It's really crippling.
The fun part is watching your kids figure out complex and nuanced things that you never even thought about, much less understood, while struggling with those trivial tasks.
OMG yes! One of my kids I have to micromanage to brush their teeth but is like Deanna Troi when it comes to their friends. (I’m more Data)
An interesting one that sums it all up - crawling babies aren't instinctively scared of cliffs or drops, they have to learn not to crawl off an edge. Which isn't all that surprising except for the fact that when they start walking, they don't carry this lesson forward and will happily walk off an edge. They need to learn it again.
I remember a story of a child watching their mother cook a roast, and asked why she cut the ends off before putting it in the oven.
The mother learned it from her mother, so they both went and asked the grandmother.
Turned out the grandmother used to have a small oven and did that to make it fit.
See also: why LLMs can seem clever and still be incredibly stupid
I remember this thread. One of the responses was from someone who thought that the beep his car made when locking the doors got quieter when activated from further away.
Well...by the power of the inverse square law, they kinda do, I guess.
Also probably by the power of Grayskull
We had a guy at work a couple years ago, nice guy but not too bright. He'd fill his bottle from the water cooler, and always got surprised by how fast it filled up at the top. He thought the water cooler's dispenser somehow got faster as the bottle filled up, not realizing that it's because the top of the bottle is narrower than the bottom.
when I was little I would wait for the water to warm up, then pull the thing to turn on the shower head. But there's like 2 seconds of freezing water in the tube to the shower head so I would have to really quickly pull it, run back to the edge of the shower, and block it with the shower curtain. It had a 50% chance of failure and I did it for years
I learnt that there’s a bit of cold water when switching to the shower head the hard way.
Pointed it at my wife and swapped it and she screamed. Whoops lol.
You're not supposed to just stand there and waste that warming-up water, you're supposed to collect it in a watering can and put it on your plants! It's got stuff from having sat in the water heater so it's not the best for drinking but plants don't mind.
This legitimately is something I've been looking for as I hate just running a gallon of water out for no reason.
Iirc if your water boiler supports it, you can have it circulate the hot water in the pipes to warm them up without wasting water
I lived the same "realization moment" last year talking to a friend.
I was saying that I need to go home to wash my white undershirts as I only got blacks left (small t-shirt to wear under a shirt and not freeze to death during winter).
He asked me why so I have several colors of undershirts.
Well, black and grey for black or dark colored shirts, white for white or clear colored shirts otherwise you’ll see it behind the fabric, duuuh, are you dumb?
The answer:
Or you can wear white ones under dark shirts as well and it won’t be visible…
🤔🤔🤔😧 FFS dude, why did I never thought of that?
I wish the same were true for bras. Women's shirts are often much thinner than men's, so a white bra might show through a dark shirt. It took me until this year to figure out that in order to make your bras less visible under light or white shirts, you should use a skin-tone bra instead of a white bra. Blew my mind when I figured that one out.
You can sometimes see the white collar part, unless that's just it being weird how it sits on me.
You gan also use light grey in most cases, except almost translucent clothes.
Why light grey ? Because you can wash it with dark or light clothes, worst case it get a bit darker or lighter. And as there is almost no color, it doesn't spill on other clothes. Moreover, unlike white clothes, you fon't have to worry about it getting a bit yellowish with time, the color is enough to mask it.
The majority of the clothes on the planet do not bleed color anymore.
And of course, we have a relevant xkcd.
To be fair this is possibly the most relevant xkcd of all time
Yeah it's probably the most linked xkcd with some margin, would be fun to see the traffic data to that page.
And once again, we learn that common sense is actually not that common.
I'm positive if we took a closer look at your life we'd find many such things. Nobody is perfect.
I can understand the shower one, but who tf is insane enough to not use oven mitts or a rag? I'd imagine you'd take a moment to think about the possible solutions before doing something that painful
It's an analogy, not real life.
These are /thathappened.
There is no way anyone is pulling 350°F+ items out of an oven with their bare hands.
There is no way someone grew up without a parent both demonstrating and explaining to let the water warm up first. Might as well fill a tub with cold water and sit in it, then say just add hot water until it’s comfortable. Even if the household was abusive or something and kids were told to shower cold while the water warmed up they still would have figured out on their own that running hot water first would get hot water faster.
I didn’t learn until my 40s that if you exhale gently while getting water on your face, none of it goes in your nose.
I think I learnt this when I was taught swimming as a child. You always slowly exhale or at least keep the air in your nose slightly under pressure while you're underwater, so the water doesn't get in.
So he's about to have shower sex and he is capable of thinking about anything else?
No one mentioned (probably an assumed thing) to turn the water on full hot to let it warm up, then move it to the preferred mix position. Doesn't waste the cold water which will stay more or less the same temp, it's only flushing out the cold in the hot water line. And because you have it fully on hot, it takes less time.
Or get a tankless water heater to get it almost right away. I've seen debates on which is a better choice when factoring everything in, and I think it's a close tie with no clear winner, each having their caveats.
Love that for once we're mostly not mocking them and are actually sharing similar experiences, we've all had one of those moments.
Similar dumbassery: Taking a shit and seating there for 20 minutes inhaling feces stench when I could do a flush as soon first turds come out and stay on the toilet until I can't feel my legs without a farty atmosphere in the bathroom.
Although, if you're a ball haver, this is a great way to get poo water splash on your balls...
I can't think of an incident like this off-hamd for myself, but I once dated a woman who didn't know that women have a urethra. She thought the urine just came out of her vagina. She was ~23.
I had a very cold shower once until I realized the way that one knob faucet worked was you had to turn it an insane amount to get to the hot water.
If you still have that, know that it can usually be adjusted by removing that one screw you see and go behind the knob and adjust the hot water stop.
Really changed the shower comfort over here, as it used to be real hard to find that sweet spot between lukewarm and scalding hot. 
I don't think I've ever used a shower where there was no way to avoid an initial cold spray while standing in it, so it never occurred to me to turn it on first because it wasn't an issue.
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