Looking at another picture of people surrounded on all sides by an endless stretch of pillowy-looking white sand without any water in sight, many would guess that they were seeing some foreign desert in a faraway land. But these dunes are just in the heart of southern New Mexico, where many unsuspecting individuals have been taken by surprise and left with their jaws on the floor before they realized what they were seeing: white sand stretching in every direction for a mind-boggling 275 square miles. That’s made the White Sands National Monument a long-time favorite spot among road-trippers and photographers. But there’s been nothing protecting this natural treasure from whatever the future might bring.

Until now, that is! On Dec. 20, 2019, a bill was signed to preserve this landmark, changing its name from White Sands National Monument to White Sands National Park – and changing its status as well. The beautiful site is now the 62nd official national park in the United States, joining the ranks of other legendary places like the Grand Canyon and Zion Mountains.

But it’s more than just its stunning and unique landscape making White Sands worthy of national recognition. The park hold’s the world’s largest gypsum dune field – a common rock material that reflects light, helping the dunes dazzle the way that they do. The rock field formed close to 10,000 years ago, and ever since then, the winds have blown across them creating their dreamy, wave-like appearance that we see today. Today, people can even rent plastic sleds and slide down the dunes, or enjoy a picnic lunch in their soft embrace. And by nighttime, in the light of a full moon, it’s even more beautiful; moon hikes can be booked with the park rangers.

Around 500,000 people visit the monument each year already, but that number can definitely be expected to go up now that its earned its shiny new status on the list of national parks.

Adulting is not an easy job but you have to do it. It is the way of the world. But while on this journey, how many times have you come across people who have been completely clueless with some of the simplest situations? Just know that you are not alone. Below are some people who experienced situations where ‘being clueless’ was probably an understatement.

Sure, you can get any recipe online these days. And there are just so many of them. But if you cannot follow the instructions given on them the right way then the end result can be disastrous.

For instance, just read about this person who did not understand how to grease the bottom of the pan. It is hilarious yet scary at the same time. Maybe some people are better off not cooking.

Understanding how watches work is simple enough if you understand estimation and logic. But some people cannot tell time unless it is a digital clock. If you are a kid it is fine, you will eventually learn.

But if you are a grown up, it is probably time that you learnt how to. However, the skills of this bully bullying a bully are amazing. It seems like getting a taste of his own medicine wasn’t so sweet.

People say the funniest things. This one woman was as clueless as Dory from the animated movie Finding Dory when she lost her memory. If anyone was enjoying a cup of coffee around her then they would just end up spitting out their coffee after hearing something like this.

Should completely clueless people be allowed to become parents? What would be next? Diapers are meant to be worn on the head?

Looks like this person was not familiar with the concept of electric kettle at all. How can something so easy to use turn into a fire hazard? It’s hard to feel sorry when people do things like this.

Although, you have to admit that it sounds like a scene from a cartoon. Would you have continued dating someone after they did something like this? One thing is for sure, you would never be bored in such a relationship.

Sending your kids to school can be an emotional moment but there are many formalities and procedures you have to complete before that. This woman seems to have skipped a step and just put her son on a school bus.

At least the kid will always have a really funny story to tell when he is all grown up. Although, we would like to know – did she know which school this bus would take her son to?

Maybe she had a cousin growing up who told her that the government came to cut the lawn. And she believed it. Or maybe she had whimsical real estate lawyer who joked about the city taking care of her lawn.

It is a great prank to play on someone though. But if someone did prank this lawn-owning lady, it’s puzzling that she would take it so seriously. Hope her friend broke the news to her gently.

You remember when you were a kid and you were not allowed to be near the stove? But then you grew up and learnt your way around it eventually? Looks like this person’s husband never crossed that stage.

But the view of someone holding a cup directly over the burner must have been hilarious. Surely, this cannot be the only thing he didn’t know. Maybe she could then earn millions by writing a book titled My Completely Clueless Husband.

Imagine having a brother who is not very bright and does not know how to make something as basic as ice. By 24, you would probably have thrown a few house parties, but how do you do that without having ice?

How does a person survive to that age without knowing such basic things? Maybe his brother could create a tutorial on how to make ice and post it on YouTube.

Okay, dumping a friend because she was ignorant may have been a bit much. But just imagine, if not for her friend, this girl would have bought a new vacuum cleaner every time the container was full.

The brand would become rich with business just from her. Speaking of rich, another theory could be that she was probably really rich and could actually afford to just buy something new rather than care to clean it out.

It is nice to live a sheltered life but not so sheltered that you are not taught basic life skills. Surely, the Grandma meant well but the end result was not so great. The kid ended up being completely clueless about things you should definitely learn, growing up.

Lucky for this kid, the step Dad stepped in at the right time in their lives. You can say that he was almost like a superhero in the kid’s life.

Sometimes parents go a little overboard with their love which could even make you a helpless individual. Like this guy in a dorm but having parents spoiling him rotten with all the fancy food.

The food is still alright but his Mommy cutting his toenails? Watching a series with a lot of gore would still not seem as grotesque as watching the boy have his mother take care of his toenails.

The one thing about cooking frozen chicken is that you have to defrost it first. This is common knowledge. At least, for most people. It is shown in several movies and series as well, usually on Thanksgiving episodes where they are unable to carve a frozen turkey.

Unfortunately this person’s roommate had not watched them and so had no clue. She was caught at the right time or else they would be eating a very interesting variation of the chicken dish.

Have you ever tried skipping without a rope? Or playing basketball without the ball? Or even driving without a car? It doesn’t make sense right? Neither does cooking pasta without water. You cannot prepare it without water.

Clearly, this person cannot seem to figure that out. She is one of those roommates whom you would assign the cleaning and never the cooking. Never cooking! It is advisable to keep her out of the kitchen.

Wonder where people get their information from. With so much information available everywhere, it is appalling to know that people continue to be so ill informed. Looks like someone forgot to give her “the talk.”

Hopefully, this friend had a long conversation with her uninformed friend and educated her right away. For those who are still in doubt, putting it out there: birth control pills do not prevent STDs at all.

Are you wondering what is quarter to 3? It is 2:45. Wondering how much a quarter of an hour is? It’s one fourth of the total hour that is 60 minutes. There! Now you know.

But this person is still confused. Numbers don’t seem to be her strong suit. Even after being told a quarter of an hour is 15 minutes, she was confused. Another victim of the poor schooling system.

How does it matter which oil you put into a vehicle as long as it is oil? And vegetables have a lot of benefits, right? Maybe she thought that using vegetable oil in her truck will make it healthy and strong. But the motor died anyway.

If you did something like this, would your parents be mad at you or just dejected? How are people even allowed to own vehicles without knowing something so basic as this?

Sometimes you just do not know what you do not know. You have to learn through experience. Some of them are funny, like this lady who loaded her boyfriend’s dishwasher with things in the kitchen and used it as though it was a storage device.

It is so adorable. It is cute that they stuck together and are married now. When they have kids, they will have a very funny story to tell them.

Living with an eccentric roommate can be quite an adventure or downright frightening. This baked beans experiments is testament to that. Maybe she is a mad scientist in one of the parallel universes.

Her style of cooking is truly mind-blowing. If she continues on this path, then she could eventually end up blowing up her house as well. So, in the future, if you come across someone who cooks like this, move out! The very next day!

This is not as funny as the others. He just did not know because of his circumstances. Sometimes you just have to be nice, who knows what inner (and in this case external too) battle they have been fighting of their own.

Although, one question that needs answering is this – before he was taught to tie his shoe by his senior, how did he manage to keep them on? Didn’t it slip off? This officer is more talented than he is given credit for after all.

Getting a partner who is completely clueless at their job is plain bad luck. But if you are in the medical field and you get assigned such a partner, it is just the worst. Why? Because people’s lives are at stake.

But after reading this story, do you not wonder how this person landed the job in the first place? He almost sounds like Sterling Archer from the series Archer who goes undercover to just mess things up for everyone.

The instructions were simple indeed. All you had to do was follow them. But some people just don’t get it and this was before the vaccination drives. This gentleman even decided to pose for a picture as if he were a celebrity. These are the same people who complain about things being shut down for a longer time.

Not sure whether he lost his memo or he was completely clueless about what was happening in the world. There is no dearth of “covidiots” in this word!

Okay this may not seem like a big deal but maybe it is weird just for a few people. The only plausible explanation is that this person probably owned an oven. Then they must have thought, ‘If I used to preheat my oven, why should a microwave be any different?’

You just end up using more power for no reason at all. It could also be that they live in a very cold climate and wants to open the microwave for some warmth.

You know how some people you live with are absolutely gross? This guy’s roommate seems to be one of them. Why would a person want their hands to smell of raw chicken? Raw! Why?

The weird thing was, he had to tell his roommate to wash his hands after handling the raw chicken. He thought it was alright to go about the day without washing them. This is just disgusting.

This Dad is a genius but one that did not know how to butter a bagel. So, if you know how to butter a toast, you know something that a certain neuroscientist doesn’t. How cool is that! Hopefully, now that he is a Dad, he would have learnt.

Does this not remind you of the famous Jake Peralta from the series Brooklyn Nine-Nine, who solved the most complex crimes but could not for the life of him manage his finances?

Getting divorced forces you from living with someone you can rely on to living all by yourself. For some it can be an unfamiliar feeling, especially if they went from their parent’s house to college to their husband’s house.

This seems to be just the case with this woman too. It is all new to her and she is clearly completely clueless about it. Hopefully her friend will help her out here.

Some people really need to understand that the kitchen is for the people who know what they are doing there. But yet another person dares to experiment. And agreed, when you are in college, you end up eating just about anything but even onion peels are a bit too much.

Even if you watched just one Masterchef episode, just one, you would know that onions should be peeled before consuming.

Sometimes no amount of shaking your head can fix the completely clueless minds of people you meet. If you cannot understand simple instructions, then at least ask follow-up questions. But thinking that eggs can turn poisonous if they are broken wrong is like believing a tin foil on your head can protect your thoughts from the aliens.

You can almost imagine chef Gordon Ramsay face palming himself at this 19-year-old’s answer, somewhere at the back of your head.

Here’s the story of Spatula. It belonged to the kingdom of Kitchenware. But she always had multiple crushes in various kinds of dishes. One day, a doppelganger of spatula called plastic spatula came into the country and tried to take over her place.

Just to prove who is real, they had to go through heat and fire, and the plastic one melted. If only this person’s roommate could have heard this story and not melt the spatula by leaving it in the pot.

If your friend’s car stopped midway and they call you for help, it is only human to go help them out. But if they do something like what this person’s friend did, it is better to just leave rather than waste your time rolling your eyes at them.

You have done your good deed for the day so you can leave this completely clueless person to their devices and leave with a clear mind.

You can learn many things in a cooking school but have you heard of a dish titled – Turkey infused with lemon flavored detergent? That is exactly what this guy would have ended up with if he had actually not asked this question and had gone ahead and washed the turkey in dish soap.

It would have been interesting to know what the instructor had replied. If this comment does not deserve a sarcastic response then we don’t know what does.

Adulting teaches you how to get yourself neat and clean. It also teaches you to do your bed once you are up. But this girl dating a man child clearly did not know how to make his bed.

How can someone not know how to make a bed? How hard can it be? Little children do it too. Maybe his Mom makes him feel like he is still a little child.

When you hear something like this, all you may want to shout is a huge big ‘Ew’ but how do you actually go your whole life not knowing how to wash your hair. It is literally in a million movies, series and advertisements.

Does this mean that this man has never watched a shampoo ad in his life? There is a shower with the model rinsing the shampoo off their hair, every time. You cannot miss it.

Do you remember this? It is used to strain the tea leaves when you pour it from the kettle on the cups. Pretty common, right? Apparently, not for this guy’s roommate. He uses it to destroy microwaves.

Not everything goes into the microwave. And if you don’t know, just ASK! Having said that, some people should have a sticker on their heads that says ‘Danger, keep away from this individual.’

The steam that emanates from the iron box is not just for show. You have to add water to it. But this man’s family-in-law seem to be quite clueless about it. The only explanation that comes to mind is this – they are just afraid that they would be electrocuted.

But, if they are afraid of it, why would they buy a steam iron in the first place? It looks like Sherlock has a mystery to solve.

Now you know exactly what to do to get a new kitchen installed. But do not do it because it seems like it was a massive fire, especially since it required three fire engines to douse it.

Unlike the characters in the movie George of the Jungle, people do not just end up with really big boo-boos. People get hurt in real life. Wonder what punishment the girl must have received though.

Millennials sure do have an edge over boomers when it comes to technology. Their ability to adapt to the new is not that great. This person’s boss seems to have made it big without having to learn how to use a computer.

Does this mean that boomers had it easy back in the day? We think not. This guy must have felt like he was teaching his Grandpa. Hopefully, that will get him a promotion.

Surely, Tom is not the only person who does something the weird way and does not know it. You may also be doing something weird and don’t know it. And there is nothing wrong with it. Sometimes the weird way is the fun way.

Remember Phoebe, from the popular series Friends, running the way she does in the park? So many people imitated her after that. It became the most fun way to run. You followed it too, didn’t you?

At college there is always that one person who is totally gross and does not clean up after themselves. This guy’s friend is that person. Not that anyone would want to find out but didn’t the room smell?

If you ever come across such a roommate, the first thing you should do is stage an intervention and make sure that they clean up their room by the end of that day.

Lot of people have not been taught how to cook and depend on frozen or packaged foods. But no one would want to eat chicken thighs like this 40-year-old guy. The woman rightly said, no one should cook that way…ever!

If only he could hire someone like Ryan Gosling’s character from the movie Crazy, Stupid, Love who teaches Steve Carell’s character to get his life back together. Hopefully, that would involve a lesson or two in cooking too.

This Texan takes the cake on being someone that is completely clueless. He probably lives in an imaginary world of his own. What a blissful state his mind must be! But it may not be the same for people around him.

No amount of hints and prompts from his date were enough to help him arrive at the right answer. And she could not have been more obvious. Some people just need a real education.

Imagine teaching a genius, who invented a WiFi security standard the most basic human functions like taking a shower. How can someone really not have any regard for the way they treat themselves?

Such people do not belong to the same species. Good thing he had great friends who cared enough to teach him though. He may have been a clueless dude but must have been a good guy to have such caring friends around.

Reporters are known to ask celebrities inane questions. But when it happened at the Oscars, it makes you wonder how they got a ticket to that award show in the first place. We bet South Korean director Bong Joon-ho who directed the Oscar-winning movie Parasite was also thinking the same.

His expression says it all. But celebrities have become pros. They have found their own snarky comebacks to such silly questions.

Firstly, why would anyone complain about finding an avocado on their lawn? Avocados do not come cheap. Be happy, dear friend. If it were someone else they would be dancing with joy.

And secondly, how do you miss an entire tree? Or did Harry Potter take back his invisibility cloak that he had left on the tree? The tree then suddenly came into view. This explanation makes the most sense. Don’t you think?

This incident has got to be the most adorable tale of cluelessness. You can almost imagine the man trying to fish for a pickle only to realize that it is his own finger. Such innocence!

Once you have laughed for a good 15 minutes, you will surely end up reminiscing about the time you were in a similar situation. If someone tells you that they never had such an experience, they are probably lying and the incident was more embarrassing than this one.

A romantic cooking date, your bae is with you and you are having a great time. And when she tries to douse the grease fire like this lady did then the last thing you would expect her to say is – they are both white powder.

That one statement is enough to kill the mood forever. Also, by the white powder logic, you can also use snow, powdered sugar, detergent or baby powder. Just a thought.