# My ex was so dumb they thought **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 14, 2020, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-was-so-dumb-they-thought/928047 "2020-12-14T20:16:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-was-so-dumb-they-thought/928047/21 "2020-12-15T03:45:20Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Dated a guy in high school who asked me what the capital of New England was > [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Duh, New London. Duh, Boston. Just ask a Bostonian. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-was-so-dumb-they-thought/928047/22 "2020-12-15T04:25:27Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > Right turn on red AFTER stop. All 50 states. Except a minor chunk of New York. ---
**Author:** ![Esprise\_Me](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprise_me/32/2947_2.png) [@Esprise\_Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprise_Me)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-was-so-dumb-they-thought/928047/23 "2020-12-15T05:08:47Z")
> [@JaneDoe42](#): > > They were good in bed and nice to my cats. I can’t stop chuckling at this refrain. You should work this into a stand-up routine! Best I got is a high school boyfriend who only got the twist in The Sixth Sense a minute or so _after_ seeing the guy shot through the back. He leaned over and whispered it to me and…well, he was cute…sigh. ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-was-so-dumb-they-thought/928047/24 "2020-12-15T05:36:12Z")
I was 20-30 at the time. My standards were lower back then. One of them was rubbing my male cat’s belly and got worried about the lumps. He was shocked when I said they were nipples because it was a boy cat. He almost went catatonic when I pointed out that _he_ had nipples and he was a boy. We both took our shirts off to look at nipples and suddenly he was all better. Another one who was nice to my cats and good in bed! Hubs is good in bed, nice to my cats and reads books without pictures. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-was-so-dumb-they-thought/928047/25 "2020-12-15T05:40:38Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > Right turn on red AFTER stop. All 50 states. Some exceptions may apply. While driving around in Oregon (admittedly, some 40 years ago), certain intersections had a sign posted saying “Right turn on red OK without stop”. ---
**Author:** ![Bootb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bootb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootb)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-was-so-dumb-they-thought/928047/26 "2020-12-15T05:42:28Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > Right turn on red AFTER stop. All 50 states. And sometimes LEFT turn on red, after stop. (In the USA). ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-was-so-dumb-they-thought/928047/27 "2020-12-15T05:46:31Z")
> [@Bootb](#): > > And sometimes LEFT turn on red, after stop. (In the USA).  That’s pretty much standard, even without any sign saying so, if you’re turning from a one-way street into a one-way street. Do you mean there are other places too where you can do this? ---
**Author:** ![Bootb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bootb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootb)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-was-so-dumb-they-thought/928047/28 "2020-12-15T05:49:07Z")
That’s what I had in mind. But I think you are wildly over-estimating how common that knowledge is. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-was-so-dumb-they-thought/928047/29 "2020-12-15T11:32:39Z")
Oh, my gawd, please come back with more @JaneDoe42 these are all absolute gems. I’m dyin’ laughing over here - the cats are looking at me funny. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-was-so-dumb-they-thought/928047/30 "2020-12-15T12:59:06Z")
I’ve always been attracted to intelligent men, but this is a fun thread. And yes, a potential partner has to be nice to cats. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-was-so-dumb-they-thought/928047/31 "2020-12-15T14:22:05Z")
> [@JaneDoe42](#): > > I kinda wonder how things will be post-COVID. “The top half of her face was cute.” ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-was-so-dumb-they-thought/928047/32 "2020-12-15T14:25:01Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > Except a minor chunk of New York. Well, if you call all of New York City (with a very, very small number of exceptions) a “minor chunk.” ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-was-so-dumb-they-thought/928047/33 "2020-12-15T15:49:06Z")
I used to perform in a group who did interactive murder mysteries. We would tailor them to whatever the customer wanted (vampire, sci go, etc), and have a powwow about characters and roles on the way to the venue. A girl I dated a few times was invited to join us to help fill out the roster of red herrings and suspects. We were doing an X-Files sort of event. She stuck close to me as a “junior officer” for the government. We’re introducing ourselves to various members of the audience as we start the play. As we meet our third or fourth person, I introduce myself. She stops breathing for a second, looks up like she’s trying to remember some lost detail, and asks me, “wait…I’m an FBI agent, too, right, [my real first name]?” ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-was-so-dumb-they-thought/928047/34 "2020-12-15T16:43:07Z")
> [@Saintly\_Loser](#): > > Well, if you call all of New York City (with a very, very small number of exceptions) a “minor chunk.” It is less than .5% of the surface area and only 3% of the roads. So, yes, “minor chunk” seems an apt descriptor. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-was-so-dumb-they-thought/928047/35 "2020-12-15T16:53:43Z")
> [@JaneDoe42](#): > > I caught one of them in bed with my sister and demanded to know what and why it had happened and the best he could come up with was “I don’t know, sex just seems to happen to me.” I can’t stop laughing at this. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-was-so-dumb-they-thought/928047/36 "2020-12-15T17:24:06Z")
3% of the roads, but I wonder what percentage of intersections are in NYC. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-was-so-dumb-they-thought/928047/37 "2020-12-15T17:44:00Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > I can’t stop laughing at this. Rates right up there with “I tripped and fell into her vagina.” ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-was-so-dumb-they-thought/928047/38 "2020-12-15T17:48:42Z")
> [@amarinth](#): > > It is less than .5% of the surface area and only 3% of the roads. So, yes, “minor chunk” seems an apt descriptor. Well, sure, but also 40% of the population of the state. So perhaps not so apt? ---
**Author:** ![Tabco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tabco/32/7644_2.png) [@Tabco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabco)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-was-so-dumb-they-thought/928047/39 "2020-12-15T18:05:39Z")
In Oregon you can make left turns at a red light onto a one-way street, even if your street is two-way (i.e. against oncoming traffic). I don’t know how many drivers here are aware of it, though. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2020, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-was-so-dumb-they-thought/928047/40 "2020-12-16T00:59:39Z")
My grown-ass man ex-husband asked me once if Christmas was on December 25th every year and then got mad at me when I snickered. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-was-so-dumb-they-thought/928047.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-was-so-dumb-they-thought/928047.md?page=3)