Another thread about cluelessness

[mimitabby]

I started out clueless, but life taught me to grow up fast.

when i was in 8th grade, the kids had a field day with me because i did not know the slang words that most kids knew. I knew the long proper words, (thanks mom) but had no idea that pricks were body parts, etc.



as a sophomore, a teacher asked us if anyone in our families had a drinking problem. I was living with a detested drunk stepfather at the time and I raised my hand. NO ONE ELSE DID. Humiliated and infuriated, i turned to my class and said, "you mean NONE of you have a family member that drinks too much?" no one would look at me.

I knew my trigometry teacher was gay when I was a senior. I despised the way he flirted with innocent boys. I had the same disgust for the handsome young chemistry teacher who acted like he was buddies to the "in crowd" in our classroom. Imagine my disappointment when i went back to my highschool 30 years later and he was the only teacher left that was there when I was.

[redrhodie]

When I was about to leave my old job, I found out one of my coworkers had dated our boss before either of us had started working there. I had no idea! It made some of the company dynamics a lot more clear!

[indigoiis]

When I first got into raising alpacas, our mentors kept talking about "spit tests" to determine pregnancy. I didn't know what the heck they were talking about - do the animals spit on a progesterone card? Do we collect spit and then run a test on it?

I found out after I conjectured, in front of a lot of other farmers, the above theory. Everyone laughed. Then we went out to witness a "real" spit test. All it is is bringing in a male alpaca to the paddock, and if a female spits at him, she's 95% of the time preggers.

Boy was my face red.

[Pax]

When I first got into raising alpacas, our mentors kept talking about "spit tests" to determine pregnancy. I didn't know what the heck they were talking about - do the animals spit on a progesterone card? Do we collect spit and then run a test on it?

I found out after I conjectured, in front of a lot of other farmers, the above theory. Everyone laughed. Then we went out to witness a "real" spit test. All it is is bringing in a male alpaca to the paddock, and if a female spits at him, she's 95% of the time preggers.

Boy was my face red.

When we moved home from Italy I was placed in a civilian school populated with farm kids, there were bovines wandering about the pasture next to the school and I asked if they were boy or girl cows and was the bull a boy or girl bull...I had no idea that cow = female and bull = male.

[mimitabby]

When we moved home from Italy I was placed in a civilian school populated with farm kids, there were bovines wandering about the pasture next to the school and I asked if they were boy or girl cows and was the bull a boy or girl bull...I had no idea that cow = female and bull = male.

oh, that's really cute! ( I love the spit test story too!)

[alpinerabbit]

oh geez that reminds me. my 2nd grade best friend made animal sounds while we were playing with toy ponies, she thought they go "pon-pon"....

[bmccasland]

Let's start this with... my dearest Mother is a prude (and probably most of her generation was). She explained about having periods. But as for where babies came from - you got married and then you had babies. So there was something in that marriage certificate that caused babies.

Well in H.S. biology class I found out how other mammals procreated, and boy was I surprised! I knew about male human anatomy, but if I knew THAT had something to do with getting me pregnant, abstinance would have been very easy. The same thing they pee with?