“I don’t know if he’s necessarily the smartest person I know but I know a pretty smart astrophysicist who pointed out a ’star’ to us which was in fact a plane.” © circus-witch / Reddit
“Where we are, you don’t mess with jellyfish. They mess you up. My partner, a civil engineer, smart, measured, walking along the beach. Sees a mass in the water. ’That looks like a jellyfish’. Kicks the mass. Turns out it was a rock. Having gotten over my amazement at what I just witnessed, I pocketed the rock. Gave it to him as a congratulations present on his promotion, to remind him that he is not immune to errors of judgment.” © eightyfivenumbers / Reddit
“My aunt. College professor. Ph.D. in mathematics. Was blown away when watching my father cook rice without a rice cooker.” © t-h-e-d-u-d-e / Reddit
“My dad is basically a cross between a mathematician and an economist. Wrote a textbook for his field, and has been CEO of several companies. I came home many years ago to hear Age of Empires blaring downstairs. I found him playing the game, with headphones on... but unplugged. He had the sound on the speakers and couldn’t hear it over the headphones. To top it off, he had the headphones on backward.” © dasUberSoldat / Reddit

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