(I am sure some of you guys have gotten this too)
1. When I had ducks and geese in the 90s (American Buff and White Pekins), my friends would come over and see them and exclaim, 'Oh, look at the ducks! ....Man those ducks are HUGE!" Then of course I had to explain the difference between ducks and geese.....thats how they told me only Canadian geese are geese, blah blah. They couldn't wrap their minds around it lol....Then they ALWAYS asked me, "Well how do you keep them from flying South for the winter?" I would be stunned, not only from the question but because they asked me the same thing every time they came over. (and these people had good high paying jobs)
2. When I would show them my Partridge Silkies....they would say, 'Oh, thats what a Partridge looks like!' They would start to sing the 12 days of Christmas, and I would stop them asking what they were doing. They would look at me like I was stupid and ask hadn't I ever heard that song, the part about the Partridge in a pear tree? I would get that SO OFTEN that I just gave up explaining anything to some people.
That stupid song... b-day is Dec 13th and I've gotten ornaments, cards, etc etc all with that partridge and pear tree... 13+12=25 is the theory... course if you actually look it up you'd know it's not the twelve days PRIOR to Christmas... oy goofy.
I'd have let them get down to one and then joined in LOUDLY with...
Friend came by after hitting a deer about 1/4 mile from my house (he is a ranger) and got me... He only broke the legs and damaged its head so he did the prudent thing... Slit it's throat downhill to drain while he procured a truck to haul it home.. We spent the evening dressing it out and then invited them over for bar-b-qued backstrap and loin... We didn't tell his wife what she was eating... But after the story (and the food which was delicous) was gone...
We told her that not only did she eat a baby deer.. ha ha (yearling) but it was Roadkill!!!
She threw up!!!! ha ha ha (best darn deer I ever had) bumper tenderized!!!
My sister also thought< and shes a year younger than I am> that you needed a rooster to get eggs. I also used the ovulation explaination to her about how a hen doesnt need a rooster to produce eggs. She had asked me..............But how do you get eggs if the rooster doesnt get them pregnant?...............blank stare from me.................I said.............Do you need a man to ovulate?...........oooohhhhhhh!!!<rolls eyes>
My dogs....I have a black & tan Doberman, a black & tan daschund, & a black & tan Min-Pin. So many people ask " Is that their puppy?", referring to the Min- Pin. DUH!