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How STUPID can you really get?....
« on: Mar 2nd, 2006, 6:32am » |
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How did these people survive?
ONE Recently, when I went to McDonald's I saw on the menu that you could have an order of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets. I asked for a half dozen nuggets. "We don't have half dozen nuggets," said the teenager at the counter. "You don't?" I replied. "We only have six, nine, or twelve," was the reply. "So I can't order a half dozen nuggets, but I can order six?" "That's right." So I shook my head and ordered six McNuggets
TWO I was checking out at the local Wal-Mart with just a few items and the lady behind me put her things on the belt close to mine. I picked up one of those "dividers" that they keep by the cash register and placed it between our things so they wouldn't get mixed. After the girl had scanned all of my items, she picked up the "divider," looking it all over for the bar code so she could scan it. Not finding the bar code she said to me, "Do you know how much this is?" I said to her "I've changed my mind, I don't think I'll buy that today." She said "OK," and I paid her for the things and left. She had no clue to what had just happened.
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A lady at work was seen putting a credit card into her floppy drive and pulling it out very quickly. When I inquired as to what she was doing, she said she was shopping on the Internet and they kept asking for a credit card number, so she was using the ATM "thingy."
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I recently saw a distraught young lady weeping beside her car. "Do you need some help?" I asked. She replied, "I knew I should have replaced the battery to this remote door unlocker. Now I can't get into my car. Do you think they (pointing to a distant convenience store) would have a battery to fit this?" "Hmmm, I dunno. Do you have an alarm, too?" I asked. "No, just this remote thingy," she answered, handing it and the car keys to me. As I took the key and manually unlocked the door, I replied, "Why don't you drive over there and check about the batteries. It's a long walk."
FIVE Several years ago, we had an Intern who was none too swift. One day she was typing and turned to a secretary and said, "I'm almost out of typing paper. What do I do?" "Just use copier machine paper," the secretary told her. With that, the intern took her last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five "blank" copies.
SIX I was in a car dealership a while ago, when a large motor home was towed into the garage. The front of the vehicle was in dire need of repair and the whole thing generally looked like an extra in "Twister." I asked the manager what had happened. He told me that the driver had set the "cruise control" and then went in the back to make a sandwich.
SEVEN My neighbor works in the operations department in the central office of a large bank. Employees in the field call him when they have problems with their computers. One night he got a call from a woman in one of the branch banks who had this question: "I've got smoke coming from the back of my terminal. Do you guys have a fire downtown?"
EIGHT Police in Radnor, PA, interrogated a suspect by placing a metal colander on his head and connecting it with wires to a photocopy machine. The message "He's lying" was placed in the copier, and police pressed the copy button each time they thought the suspect wasn't telling the truth. Believing the "lie detector" was working, the suspect confessed.
NINE A mother calls 911 very worried asking the dispatcher if she needs to take her kid to the emergency room, the kid was eating ants. The dispatcher tells her to give the kid some Benadryl and should be fine, the mother says, I just gave him some ant killer.....
Dispatcher: Rush him in to emergency
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Re: How STUPID can you really get?....
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Re: How STUPID can you really get?....
« Reply #2 on: Mar 2nd, 2006, 9:18am » |
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ha ha!
really, this is about how stupid some people at school get!
ok, maybe not as stupid
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Re: How STUPID can you really get?....
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WOW... 
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Re: How STUPID can you really get?....
« Reply #5 on: Mar 2nd, 2006, 10:24am » |
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Barb, I worked with a woman I'll call Sue (which is really her name, but we'll pretend I changed it to protect the stupid)
She was the asssistant to one of the agents at the real estate company and had told them she had plenty of experience in the office environment.
She needed me to show her how to do something on her puter, so I sat down at mine to show her, and she panicked and said I had to show her on HER computer, cuz hers was different. The only difference in computers? Hers was black and mine was grey.
Sue needed to get a file off a floppy but told me it wouldn't work right and would I help her. So off we went to her office, to her black computer, and I told her to open the file. Her next question: "How?" ummm, put the disk in and double click on the file. (do you see the next obvious question here?) "How do I put it in?"
Sue was in a panic as usual, because someone had left paper on the top of the copier and she didn't know who to give them to because she didn't know who they belonged to and ohmygawd what should she do with the papers? So I went to the printer to help her identify........ the blank pieces of paper left on top of the copier.
Sue was using a binding machine for binding brochures and its reservoir was full of all the little pieces of paper left after punching holes. She did not know what to do. So she called me. What do I do? Its full! It took me a full minute to let this soak in to my brain before I reached to the left of the machine and dumped the paper pieces into the trash can, and put the reservoir back into the machine.
Sue did not know what to do, could I help her? Sure, Sue, what's the problem? Her reply? The stapler is empty.
Honesttagawd, this REALLY happened.
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« Reply #6 on: Mar 2nd, 2006, 10:42am » |
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Maybe she is on Topomax????
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Re: How STUPID can you really get?....
« Reply #7 on: Mar 2nd, 2006, 11:03am » |
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I think topey would've shut what little of her functioning brain was working completely down.
But then again, at least it would have given her an excuse.
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Re: How STUPID can you really get?....
« Reply #8 on: Mar 2nd, 2006, 12:22pm » |
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Just when I think people can't get any more stupider (gee I just made up a new word) - they DO! What are these teachers teaching in school these days??? And what are the kids absorbing??? Anything???
A friend of mine (an old classmate) tried to tell some cheerleaders what 2 bits was (they've only been doing this cheer for about 100 years). They just looked at her like she fell off the moon. She even used visual aides and still no reaction. Do kids just not care?
And us old people raised this generation... so we have only ourselves to blame -- I'm just trying to figure out where we screwed up....
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« Reply #9 on: Mar 2nd, 2006, 12:34pm » |
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If I'm buying fast food and the bill is $4.51, I will typically pay $5.01 so I get two nice shiny quarters. Gotta love the kids who hand me back the penny ("You paid too much!", and then make change of 49 cents!!
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« Reply #10 on: Mar 2nd, 2006, 12:44pm » |
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My father was a lawyer and he once had a client who was ticketed for going through a flashing red light without stopping (he was also speeding through it).
He told the cop (and my dad) that he went through the light when it was off, so he shouldn't have got ticketed for it! NO JOKE.
I also use change to get quarters back and the looks you get from fast food kids is priceless. Even though they then type in the number and you have saved them 4 hours of figuring out how to make change.
One time this happened to me. I gave a kid a $10 bill and some change for a bill that was $5 and change and instaed of giving me $5 back, she gave me $20 and some change (NO JOKE!) ....... it took me 10 minutes (and a manager) to correct her mistake. What really ticked me off was that the manager acted like I tried to steal money from them when I brought the mistake to their attention.
Peepel ar stoopid!
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« Reply #11 on: Mar 2nd, 2006, 1:03pm » |
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...and speaking of McDonald's,
after taking my order at the DRIVE THRU, the cashier asked would that be for here or to go?
I bit my lip to stiffle a laugh and told her I'd take it to go.
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...you folks made this stuff up. 
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Rich: I did not make up what I posted. Nor did I change the names to protect the innocent.
On my honeymoon, I was at Disneyland Paris (where everyone speaks English). I went to Casey's (Hot Dog place) to get my wife a hot dog and I ordered a "Giant Hot Dog". The girl stared at me. "Giant Hot Dog" I replied. Again, she didn't understand. My wife said "Hot Dog Giant" (she pronounced Giant the way the french woudl say it) and she said OK. So, "Hot dog Geeahnt (phonetic)" is understood but "Giant Hot Dog (which was how it was on the menu which was in ENGLISH)" is not.
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Nope, well, at least not me. The better half said it was probably because the girl was used to working the front counter and just slipped up, but I swear it did happen.
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no way could I have made that up, that chick was a trip and like that every day.
And I tell you those stories a little sheepishly, as I am sure you all remember ummmmmm the freezer incident? and the coffee? ........and the dryer.....and the seatbelt.
I am indeed the queen of stupid stuff.
btw: the mcdonalds drive thru story was hilarious.
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Re: How STUPID can you really get?....
« Reply #18 on: Mar 2nd, 2006, 2:07pm » |
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Try to remember that the average person does not have average inteligence. 
( I made that up myseff)
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..or spelling ability.
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Re: How STUPID can you really get?....
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Hey, spell checker doesn't work in here, gimme a break. I had to do it awll myseff
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Re: How STUPID can you really get?....
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Quote:I'm just trying to figure out where we screwed up....
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The answer to that, is actually IN your sentence.
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« Reply #22 on: Mar 2nd, 2006, 3:36pm » |
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on Mar 2nd, 2006, 2:30pm, imnotbub wrote:| Hey, spell checker doesn't work in here, gimme a break. I had to do it awll myseff |
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Re: How STUPID can you really get?....
« Reply #23 on: Mar 2nd, 2006, 6:34pm » |
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I'll let you know. Every day more gray matter slides out my nostrils.
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Re: How STUPID can you really get?....
« Reply #24 on: Mar 3rd, 2006, 4:21pm » |
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Just so you know.
I am a computer technician working in a call center. The stories that read about in email from computer tech calls, are all 100% true.
Had one woman tell us that her Windows was broken, when she tapped the start button nothing happened.
Turns out she was tapping the glass on the monitor with her finger, not using a mouse....
true story
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