Scavenger hunt:: Captain obvious or Captain Oblivious
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So... if you've seen the bit above you know what I'm talking about... Ever been in a situation where someone was being Captain obvious and you were Captain oblivious? Share 5,000,000 Points! Every star gives you 500,000 points. (see the points till now really don't matter ;)
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Kind of in reverse... I turned on my lawn sprinkler the other day, just before a female jogger approached my sidewalk. Looking up, I asked if I had got her wet, and she said no. "Have a good run." I said. "You too, she replied." I actually heard her grunt her equivalent of 'Doh!' as she ran on. I was cracking up.
I've always been Captain Oblivious. Good story would be, when I first met my wife in college I had quoted Princess bride. She said she had never seen it and asked if I owned it. I said I did, and invited her to come up to my room to watch it. We watched it, then went with friends to dinner.
it wasn't until years later that I learned that she had seen the movie before and just used it as a ploy to... see my room.
wife = captain oblivious
many years back, around christmas, my wife was going to Target. she had on a red and white sweater, so i said "don't forget to ask for the red sweater discount". she basically responded "you're full of it". i explained that since their colors were red and white, there was a 10% discount. but, you specifically had to ask for it.
now, i had every intention of telling her it was a joke before she left, but i forgot. she comes back and here's our conversation:
her: you're an asshole.
me: what'd i do???
her: the checker asked if i wanted a 10% discount, so i said "is it the red sweater discount?". she looked at me like i was crazy. it was a discount if you got the target credit card.
me: hahahahahahahahahahah!!!111oneone!!!!
her: punch!
April Fools day 2014. My coworker covertly taped a sign on my back "Ask me if my hair is a different color". Everyone played along. I kept looking in a mirror, was utterly confused for a couple of hours.
I went to visit a friend in California, and struck up a friendship with his roommate. We talked quite a bit, and he opened up about a lot of things, while I was my normal aloof self (apparently ). Anyway, after about a month of talking online and on the phone (I also often spoke to his roommate, my friend, in the same call, so I didn't think much of it), he said he had time off work and wanted to come visit. My now husband was at that time, just my roommate, so I let him know Brad was coming to hang out for a week.
He shows up, fully thinking he was coming to visit his girlfriend, me. He had thought this was a romantic trip all along, and I had no idea. According to him, he had been very clear how he felt about me. I kept trying to explain to him that I never realized what had been happening. He refused to accept it, even though I explained that having never actually been going out together, I technically shouldn't have to even break up. It went on for two awkward days. Finally, I gave him a Tootsie Pop and said, "Life sucks, have a lollipop". My husband/roommate was watching this exchange from the kitchen window and nearly died lauding. He still says my line every so often, when someone just can't accept a let down.
@jaremelz see this isn't you being oblivious though, this is just men being stupid (NOTE: THIS IS A COMMON THEME IN LIFE)
@Lotsofgoats Oh no, apparently, he was quite clear about it, I just didn't catch on. My friend, the roommate even told me so. I can be quite clueless in that regard.
Cheer up, sucker
@jaremelz wait wait wait, now that I think of it... did you invent the original "cheer up, sucker!" ?!?!?!?!
@Lotsofgoats Haha, you and @kdemo had the same reply. I prefer, life sucks, have a lollipop.
There was this time that @KDemo got confused about sending forks to MEHcus.
I don't know if this counts, but my wife always accuses me of being oblivious to these things.. I still don't know if it's real or not.. She always says women are hitting on me, and they want to be "more than just friends", but I think maybe she's over reacting.. I do have a few female friends, but as far as I've ever known, they're just friends. I try to usually be very nice and generous to people, so that can be misinterpreted sometimes.
@kadagan She could be right. As men, we're genetically incapable of taking a hint. It's not our fault.
Back in college I had a thing for this girl. We hung out a good bit but she had a long term boyfriend that she had been dating since high school. Eventually they broke up, but our status never progressed that I knew of. Once, her roommate, whom I barely knew, conned her way into me taking her to a party in my hometown in order to hook up with me (also an oblivious me story).
One day after we went to a concert she just quit talking to me. Later I found out that she married the guy who had been the makeout roommate's boyfriend throughout college.
Fast forward about fifteen years, and one of the first conversations I had with my current girlfriend involved how she was best friends with the girl above in college. I mentioned that we hung out a bit but then she quit talking to me, and my girlfriend informed me that no, we had been dating. I. Had. No. Idea.
So many years later, that revelation shocked me. This is definitely not the only time I've been oblivious.
Here's another quick oblivious story.. lol.. About a week ago I was at work, and sometime after lunch I went to use the urinal.. When I went to unbutton the fly on my boxers, I was having some trouble finding the button.. Things just weren't cooperating.. And after a few moments of fumbling around I found out that my boxers were inside out. Apparently they had been that way all day, and I decided to just let it ride like that. Luckily it wasn't something visible, so it was only slightly embarrassing, but I still have no idea how I managed to do that!
Yesterday I rec'd a new flashlight I ordered online. It came with a rechargeable battery and a charger included. Last night, I put the battery in the charger for a while. Before bed, I put the battery in the flashlight but it didn't work. I tried making a few adjustments with no luck. Today I went to put it in the box for return and realized the battery was tightly encased in plastic. D'ohblivious.
My husband bought me a birdbath for my birthday last week. He leaves for work about an hour before I do (usually just before sunrise) and always sees little toads in our backyard. By the time I'm leaving, they are all in hiding so sometimes he sends me pictures of them. Monday morning he sent me 2 pictures of a little baby toad in the bird bath.
I spent all day trying to figure out how it got in there. I even had a couple of coworkers trying to figure it out too. We have a rain barrel/planter on our back porch that we have seen them on top of before but the bird bath is out in the middle of the yard. I just couldn't figure it out.
Cut to Monday night, we are over at his dad's house about to have dinner and we start taking about the toad in the birdbath. I go on and on about how I can't figure out how it got in. My husband just laughs at me and says "It jumped out after I put it up there for the first picture so I had to pick it up again for the second one"