Are you ever surprised that someone asks .....

[User]

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Yes, like " can I get you a beer?"

 

[PBancroft]

You know the sort of thing, like when someone asks "Carbon or aluminium for a £2k bike"

Ummm.... Aluminium?

 

[marinyork]

A wise man/woman is a fool who asks many questions.

 

[snorri]

"Should I have a chilli sauce on a kebab or not?"

Don't know, I've never knowingly eaten a kebab, what's the answer?

 

[Shaun]

Are you ever surprised that someone asks a question, because you can't imagine anyone would not know the answer?

Erm, yes.

 

[dudi]

A wise man/woman is a fool who asks many questions.

i like this...
thanks.

 

[Davidc]

"Carbon or aluminium for a £2k bike"

Easy. Steel.

 

[abchandler]

A wise man/woman is a fool who asks many questions.

also

Better to ask a question and think yourself a fool, than not to ask and have everyone else think you are

or

Better to ask a question and appear a fool for five minutes than remain silent and stay a fool for ever

 

[Chrisz]

also

Better to ask a question and think yourself a fool, than not to ask and have everyone else think you are

or

Better to ask a question and appear a fool for five minutes than remain silent and stay a fool for ever

Or...."Beter to remain silent and have others think you a fool than to speak out and confirm it"

 

[gbb]

I had a supervisor who turned to me one day (early in my employment with them)...'how do you spell 'and' ?

Huh You taking the mickey ?

'No, no...i can never work it out'

errr ' a-n-d'

'Ah thanks'

He turned out to be dyslexic

 

[Cubist]

I had a supervisor who turned to me one day (early in my employment with them)...'how do you spell 'and' ?

Huh You taking the mickey ?

'No, no...i can never work it out'

errr ' a-n-d'

'Ah thanks'

He turned out to be dyslexic

Mrs Cube is a teacher. She moved to a new school a few years ago and was told she had a kid in her class called Urk. Being a gullible type she thought it would be spelled phonetially and sure enough there was a kid in her class who answered to "Urk". Bradford is so wonderfully cosmopolitan and polyglot she didn't give it a second thought until he handed a piece of work in. He had written his name on the top of the exercise book. Erc. Poor kid had a four letter name and couldn't spell it properly! Mrs Cube is one of those teachers that empathises and understands all the problem kids, and spent the next three or four years more or less mentoring Eric. He wrote to her last year to tell her he'd got a job at a garden centre, and thanked her for all the time she spent with him. He still signed it Erc!

 

[Salad Dodger]

Back to OP, I used to teach kayaking at a local club.

I used to say to all the learners, particularly the younger ones who maybe might not like to ask questions, that "there's no such thing as a silly question, just a silly instructor who didn't think to explain something....."