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| Digital Rain |
I got his in an e-mail from a friend today:
| quote: | 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 it should
be fine, the mother says, I just gave him some ant killer.....
Dispatcher: Rush him in to emergency room!
Life is tough.
It's tougher if you're stupid |
E-mail didn't contain any info about the author . |
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| enferno |
:haha:
if it wasn't for the stupid people, the rest of us would have little or no entertainment. |
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| Xenocreator_PG_ |
| quote: | EIGHT 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. |
:haha: |
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| beats and beeps |
| quote: | Originally posted by Digital Rain
I got his in an e-mail from a friend today:
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 e 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 it should
be fine, the mother says, I just gave him some ant killer.....
Dispatcher: Rush him in to emergency room!
Life is tough.
It's tougher if you're stupid |
Life is even tougher when you have people copy pasting your work on forums without giving you proper credit. |
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| Digital Rain |
| quote: | Originally posted by beats and beeps
Life is even tougher when you have people copy pasting your work on forums without giving you proper credit. |
I got his in an e-mail from a friend today. Where did you post it, I searched before posting. |
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| beats and beeps |
| quote: | Originally posted by Digital Rain
I got his in an e-mail from a friend today. Where did you post it, I searched before posting. |
Oh no, I certainly did not write this. |
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| Digital Rain |
| quote: | Originally posted by beats and beeps
Oh no, I certainly did not write this. |
If you know who did then post it, the e-mail only had the text in my post, that's it, there was no credit to the author. |
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| fitom tiel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Digital Rain
If you know who did then post it, the e-mail only had the text in my post, that's it, there was no credit to the author. |
His point, I think.
They slowly get killed off. |
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| Digital Rain |
| quote: | Originally posted by fitom tiel
They slowly get killed off. |
True. |
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| Aquarian |
| I don't know if you've worked that kind of retail counter job, but you'd be really surprised how much your intelligence can drop towards the end of a busy double-shift. I've done a bunch of really stupid mistakes like that. Once a guy was buying 40-something$ worth of stuff. He handed me a 50$ bill. I opened the cash register and gave him two 20s and a 10 along with his receipt. :conf: |
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