Do you ever feel like you don't have common sense?

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I think you missed my point. I wasn't suggesting any or all of us would do that precise thing. I know I wouldn't. That is so not the point. The point was more in my second paragraph. I assume the man in question who did that believed he put thought into things he did too, but clearly some things weren't coming together as they should. This happens to me too, with different things. Often I learn from them, although sometimes it is hard to remember things when I am in the middle of doing them.

My mother believes she taught me a lot of things, and insists I have skills I don't. I don't even remember her teaching these things to me. I remember her having me do things in particular places in particular ways but it's not really possible to do those same things in the same way because I am not in those same places and enough things are different I have to effectively start over.

Do I feel like I lack common sense? Resounding yes! I do lack common sense............

My most recent and most ridiculous example: On my first day of work at my current job I was discussing my new duties with my supervisor and he had given me a list of phone numbers and email addressees of fellow workers to contact about various things......I put the list down on my desk. MY supervisor went on talking about these people for awhile and then he handed me a thumb tack. He said " here you go.....you can pin it on the board". I took the thumbtack and promptly stuck it on the board......not the list of phone numbers just the thumb tack. He stared at me and there was a long awkward silence........I saw the list on my desk and thought about it and then pinned the list up.

Which would be a lack of common sense and logical thought. Logical thought wouldn't equate to wet clothes being put into the drawer when they're supposed to be dry (take away the routine of the drier and the routine doesn't work anymore); cause and effect.

So, Temple was right in that he lacked common sense.

I can't say I lack common sense, as I do things that are appropriate for what they are. This would be due to cause and effect (thinking about all of the different outcomes), and also through experience by being taught when younger.

Too much thinking ^ and no feeling. A vacuum in the right hemishere?

If being taught mattered that much, then I wouldn't have a fraction of the problems I do.

I'm not trying to argue that you lack common sense, totally not my point. I don't think these things are a matter of merit, or of being smart, or of being taught things, or whatever. Trying to make it into how you "know better" misses the point. I know better, but knowing better doesn't always help.

David Cameron doesn't have any common sense. I think I have more common sense than that useless bastard does.

Well played.

I think common sense is really intuition. Sometimes we can figure things out logically when a situation changes, but when it involves other people and their desires or expectations, our intuition fails us.

Well thankfully I do not take things literally. If somebody says a non-literal phrase to me and I hadn't heard it before, I would think of the situation and if it fits or not, and if it doesn't I then assume that they must've been using some sort of expression or saying, and just go by that.

Say for example if I had never heard the saying ''you're pulling my leg'' before, and I was teasing somebody and they said that, I would stop and think ''wait, I'm not pulling their leg, so it must be a saying I have never heard before. OK, I was teasing them, so maybe the strange saying means something to do with teasing, so I will give a little laugh and see what they do'', so then I will give a warm laugh and if they laugh back then I know that I have learnt something new today. That's an example of common sense.