National Dumb Question Day

A lot of the worst disasters in history were caused by people being too embarrassed to own up to not really knowing what they were supposed to be doing. Good examples include Alexander the Great, whose mum sent him out for some milk, or Moses, to whom the LORD sent a burning bush with no instruction manual and pretty much left him to it (I refer you to the Book of ERRATA ;)

Most of us can own up to this. I am particularly good at asking stupid questions to which I should already know the answers, often asking two or three in the space of one working breath. However, for some people (particularly clever people, for some reason), the stigma of owning up that you don't actually know anything is too terrible to contemplate.

Hence, National Dumb Question Day. Everybody writes down all the stupid questions they've been wanting to ask for ages on a post-it note and they attach it to the Dumb Question Sandwich Board Man, a noble volunteer from your workplace who goes through the place all day reading other people's stupid questions and shouting them out. Answers can then be shouted back. It is important that this be done at the loudest possible volume, so that the original Dumb Questioner hear the answer. The DQSBM also writes down the answers, but it's better to be safe. Therefore, volume.
(Dumb Question Number 1: Is the DQSBM allowed to be a woman?)
Sheesh.
Chances are, you won't be alone. By getting everybody to come out with all the dumb questions they have, then hopefully the potential for embarrassment is minimized.