Things that happened to a friend of mine....
Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 6:47 am
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
r eply. "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 A mother calls 911 very worried asking the dispatcher if she needs to
take her kid to the emergency room, t he 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!
Life is tough...
it's tougher if you're stupid."
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
r eply. "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 A mother calls 911 very worried asking the dispatcher if she needs to
take her kid to the emergency room, t he 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!
Life is tough...
it's tougher if you're stupid."
