I don't understand how my co-workers dress themselves in the morning.

Today, I got asked by someone if I knew "where the big thing that looks like string is." To help me help them, they told me "it's round and kind of shaped like a ball."

Guess what they were looking for? A ball of string. No, really. Seriously. I just. I keep looking at my co-worker and thinking 'that thing that looks like string and is shaped like a ball? You mean a ball of string?'