A Question Has Been Thrown About Basic Skills You Thought Everyone Knew Until You Saw Someone Doing It Horribly And The Redditors' Replies Will Leave You In Awe

It is expected of you to know certain basic skills, or you can call them survival skills.

Maryjane

• Published in Interesting
• December 11, 2021

There are so many basic skills available to learn in the world, and some skills even come naturally. As a human being, it’s expected of you to know certain basic skills, or you can call them survival skills.

Most of these basic skills are taught to us while growing up by our parents or guardians, and in due time, we do them without shedding a sweat. But you’ll be amazed at the number of people who don’t know how to do basic things as simple as mopping or even sweeping.

For some, they have had domestic staff cater to them all their lives and they don’t know how to do a thing. For others, they just suck at doing these simple things, but then again, you have to keep on trying.

You can imagine meeting some people and then finding out that they can’t cook the simplest food or even operate a washing machine. And in most cases, you find out that these people have been well taken care of by employed staff, and their feet have never touched the ground.

The redditor today, named u/Gaelic_Gladiator_64, is asking the r/AskReddit community about a basic skill they grew up thinking everyone had until they saw others do it so horribly.

Here's the question

The comments to this question are worth thinking about. Like how would some people not know how to do things this basic.

Well, let's take a look at the top comments by the reddit community...

Being polite, having manners and learning

This can't be so hard to do or learn.

Read the instructions

Whatever you don't know, search the internet

Explaining things by repeating what you said previously

How can someone not know how to cook eggs... What!

Mopping and sweeping... I can't deal

I'm asking the same question as the second commenter

Laundry and emptying the drier lint

Not knowing how to use computers

Being able to figure things out

The last sentence of the last comment...lol

Following simple written directions

Being gentle with your things

Make use of the index of a book

It is baffling that some people can't look up answers online

Know when to call emergency services

This can be very annoying

Why would I clean up after myself and someone who messes things up is blaming me? I'd pack out too.

Hygiene, hygiene, hygiene...

Take your hygiene seriously.

What a cooking method

The number of young people who can't operate a computer is alarming

Well, some people do fear water...

The scientific method

The utmost sympathy for anyone who can't cook

"Here, Cook this" and you don't have the foggiest idea on how to go about it... Whew!

Normally, everyone ought to know one basic skill or the other, but voila, you see someone who can’t mop, sweep, or do other basic things. Well, thanks to domestic staff, because some people's homes will be a huge truckload of dirt and dumping.

So tell us about your own experience with a basic skill that you saw someone do horribly. 

Maryjane