I work at a newspaper (assuming you're just tuning in) and we get the weirdest phone calls. I get a lot from people who need to know what channel a show is on, since my desk is in charge of the TV page. Most of the time it's a senior who doesn't know how to use them Internets. So I Google a bit, and we're good. But the news assistants and reporters are always getting either angry people or misguided questions. One time, someone called a features reporter and yelled at her about advocating drunken driving because a story she wrote mentioned there was beer at more than one restaurant.
Today, a guy called asking for weather information. He wanted to know where lightning comes from, because he was having a debate with his friend, who said it came from the ground. (??) So he wanted us to tell him who to call. What the hell? We're a paper - figure it out for yourself! Just because there's a weather page in the paper doesn't necessarily mean that we have someone in the building who knows all that stuff. But you know, I guess if I didn't work there I'd be confused about what goes on, too. I hope I'm not crazy when I'm old.
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Technically, I think lightning does come from the ground, even though it looks like it comes from the sky. Something about the ground being the "ground" for the electric circuit created between the built up energy in the sky and the built up energy in the ground. Don't quote me on that, though.
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