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Dave King

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Got this in an email today. Seen some of them before but they are still funny.



How do 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.



THREE 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."



FOUR 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 he should be fine, the mother says, I just gave him some ant killer..... Dispatcher: Rush him in to emergency



Life is tough. but it's tougher if you're stupid!"





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My dad simply cannot order food. He thinks too much and makes it too complicated. Once at a drive-up he tried to order for everybody and got the girl at the window so flustered that she asked "Is that to go?". :lol:
 
Hee Hee. I love pulling out extra money at a fast food restaurant after they have already rung it up and then they have to manually calculate in their head how much change to give me. It's amazing how some people cannot even count and rely totally on what the register says to give. If the register screwed up and said to give me a $1000 in change for a $4 meal after giving them a 5 dollar bill I really think half of them would do it. Makes you wonder how they even pay their bills.
 
Thats great.



On the back of my ATM card i have written "ASK FOR I.D." I forgot what i was buying but i hand the guy my card and he looks at the back for my signature and asks me if i want him to ask me for ID. I say no, and he swipes the card and hands it back to me. :unsure:
 
I don't know how many of those are true, but I know for a fact #6 has happened at least once. My stepfather works for an auto insurer; he came home one day talking about a guy who bought a brand new motorhome. On his first trip he set the cruise control and went into the back to take a nap.



Unfortunately, his insurance had to cover that.
 
:lol:



I once asked the cashier at our cafeteria for change; "got two tens for a five?" and got it. Didn't click until I gave it back.
 
Theresa worked for an insurance company. She had a woman the burned her car up. She got a candle and lit it while driving. The candle fell off the dashboard and fell on the floor. The car was burned to the ground.



Theresa had to put her on hold so she could laugh. It was covered under her insurance policy.





Tom
 
There is a website out there that has a million ( o.k.,a thousand) different

disclaimers and such things that manufacturers have to put in the safety and

users sections of their owners manuals for different products, to keep fools

from killing or electrocuting themselves when they buy or use something!

Does anyone here know the site? It's been over a year since I have accessed it,

but I think we could all get a kick-in-the-pants out of it if someone could help

me find it again!!! :)
 
Here's one of my personal favorites:



To this day I laugh every time I read this story... :lol:
 
Frank Zappa said it best when he said:

"The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a

capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the

safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?"



(I hope that doesn't get quoted twice, that's also my signature)...anyway, you get the point.
 
I bought a Rubbermade storage box today that had a picture dipicting a "no smoking sign" over a baby sitting in a rubber box....I think it was meant to deter people from putting babies in the box.....I laughed so hard I got a lot of looks from passers-by and a security guard. We live in a stupid world when we live in a land where disclaimers not to put your children in air-tight rubber boxes have to be posted....God bless the American education system!



DD
 
Martimus, my dad works in IT for Sungard Data Systems, and he has received that call on more than one occasion.
 
My daughter and I had a discussion about this subject yesterday. We ran into one of her classmates, who is a cheerleader. My daughter is pretty much a nerd (like I was). The cheerleader said "Hi" as we were leaving. I told my daughter that she seemed nice. She said, "Yeah, she is the only one of the prep girls that is nice, but she is dumb. She forgot how to spell her name once in class last year."



I told her not let that bother her about the prep girls. They get by on their looks and don't have to work hard or do anything special to be popular in school. Then when they get old and their looks are gone, they have nothing. She should help the girls in that situation to do their homework if they ask, and she should support them and be nice to them.



I have met several women that were like this. They had a great life until they hit their 30's and then their husbands dumped them for a younger woman. It really isn't fair, but then that is why getting an education is so important.
 
TomT--The really sad thing about the example you gave is that the person working the counter actually allowed you to do it. Any place that trains its cash-register-using employees properly teaches them that once the bill is rung up, cash is paid, and the drawer is open, to not accept anything more. This is to limit the ability of quick-change artists to do their thing. Once the cash drawer is open, you'd be amazed at how quickly and easily even the most intelligent, astute, observant employee can be duped out of cash without even knowing it.
 
Sure a good con man can dupe just about anyone but I'm not talking about tricky stuff here. Say the price is $3.19 and I initially give them 4 one dollar bills but then as they are ringing it up I pull out a quarter and give them that. It's mass confusion. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out.
 
Uh, TomT,



My calculathingy said you would get 4 + 25 = 29 - 3 = 26 + 19 = 45



45 dollars change, see it's not really hard to figure this stuff out. :rolleyes:



He certainly wouldn't fool me... :D
 

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