Subject: HOW DO THESE PEOPLE SURVIVE?
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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 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 totake 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 to emergency!
"Life is tough. It's tougher if you're stupid."
stupid people
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True story just tonight.
Went to Leslies Pool Supplies just down the street. Needed some pool acid with they promptly helped me find.
The clerk said she did not no how to use the credit card machine...so I paid cash. Gave her six bucks for a purchase of $5.23.
She did not know how to make $.77 in change, so she asked me to take what I needed out of the drawer.
I laid $.77 on the counter and counted each piece back hoping she would know what a quarter was worth, and the two pennies.
It didn't sink in.
The pool store will soon go under water, I'm sure of it.
Went to Leslies Pool Supplies just down the street. Needed some pool acid with they promptly helped me find.
The clerk said she did not no how to use the credit card machine...so I paid cash. Gave her six bucks for a purchase of $5.23.
She did not know how to make $.77 in change, so she asked me to take what I needed out of the drawer.
I laid $.77 on the counter and counted each piece back hoping she would know what a quarter was worth, and the two pennies.
It didn't sink in.
The pool store will soon go under water, I'm sure of it.
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azskyman wrote:True story just tonight.
Went to Leslies Pool Supplies just down the street. Needed some pool acid with they promptly helped me find.
The clerk said she did not no how to use the credit card machine...so I paid cash. Gave her six bucks for a purchase of $5.23.
She did not know how to make $.77 in change, so she asked me to take what I needed out of the drawer.
I laid $.77 on the counter and counted each piece back hoping she would know what a quarter was worth, and the two pennies.
It didn't sink in.
The pool store will soon go under water, I'm sure of it.
Wow. You have the patience of a saint.
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Yeah, I've had to "count back" change because the person in the store did not know how to make change for $1.00.
Also, there is a McDonalds in New York City where the clerks don't know that a 50 cent piece is worth, well 50 cents! They are not at all sure what it is, but you get change for $1.00, change for 25 cents and all permutations in between if you try to spend one there.
My funniest one recently was a D'Angelo's sandwich shop. I ordered a sandwich that was posted on the board as (I don't remember the exact price) something like $3.69. When the sandwich was ready, the clerk said, "that will be $4.95." I said, "No, the sandwich is $3.69 and with the tax it should be about $3.99 (assuming 8% tax). "Well, my computer says it is $4.95." "Well, then your computer is wrong because the posted price is $3.69." The clerk agreed about the posted price, agreed about the tax, but insisted that it should be $4.95. By this time I'm really annoyed and insist on the clerk's summoning the manager... Well, the manager, after listening, and looking at the computer, looking at the posted price on the wall and consulting the state-issued tax chart, took out a calculator and did the computations--and guess what? I was right. I handed in $4.00 (did not trust them to make change) and got my sandwich.
The kicker was that as I was headed out the door, the manager asked me, "How did you know?????"
Then there is the CVS Drug Store in Centerville, MA. I was behind a woman who went to the cashier with a magazine, a lipgloss and some other small item--I think candy. The clerk scanned in the items and announced, "that will be $14,583.69 (again, don't remember the exact amount--but it was a good downpayment on a house)." the clerk did not bat an eyelash. The woman sputtered and tried to argue--the clerk held steady on this one. In due course the manager was summoned and she, too, insisted that if that was what the register said, than that was right! Needless to say we ALL walked out of the store, leaving our merchandise on the counter!
I actually never shopped there again. What do you do with total idiots?
It's become common...
Then there are other idiocies...
We have a breakfast place near our house called Persy's and they have newspapers "for regular customers." When we moved here (down the road from Persy's) I made the mistake of taking one of the newspapers to read while I was waiting. The waitress snatched it out of my hands telling me that the newspapers were for "regular" customers and obviously I was not one... she did not know me. Now, in our old town we always ate Sunday brunch out... Guess what? These days we stay home and cook it. No welcome to this neighborhood... But I do wonder how they get and keep regular customers at that restaurant. I'm guessing that by now either their regular customers are 85 years old or non-existent because others who have moved here report similar experiences. Yet we are their ideal clientele!
Another restaurant we will not go back to is Bayberries in Sandwich. The waitress brought our wine order and managed to dump all three glasses of wine all over our guest! She was totally soaked! The waitress did not even plan to mop it up or offer a towel or something to us until we made enough noise to finally get a busboy over to cope with the mess!
You guessed it! They charged us for the wine!
And these people expect repeat business???
Hey, I worked in a restaurant for 6 years during college/grad school. I'm pretty sympathetic to waitresses. But this one took the prize! And the management just stood by and watched... What were they thinking? Did they think we would not warn all our friends, relatives, neighbors and visitors to stay out of the place?
All in all, I often wonder how many American businesses stay in business.
Also, there is a McDonalds in New York City where the clerks don't know that a 50 cent piece is worth, well 50 cents! They are not at all sure what it is, but you get change for $1.00, change for 25 cents and all permutations in between if you try to spend one there.
My funniest one recently was a D'Angelo's sandwich shop. I ordered a sandwich that was posted on the board as (I don't remember the exact price) something like $3.69. When the sandwich was ready, the clerk said, "that will be $4.95." I said, "No, the sandwich is $3.69 and with the tax it should be about $3.99 (assuming 8% tax). "Well, my computer says it is $4.95." "Well, then your computer is wrong because the posted price is $3.69." The clerk agreed about the posted price, agreed about the tax, but insisted that it should be $4.95. By this time I'm really annoyed and insist on the clerk's summoning the manager... Well, the manager, after listening, and looking at the computer, looking at the posted price on the wall and consulting the state-issued tax chart, took out a calculator and did the computations--and guess what? I was right. I handed in $4.00 (did not trust them to make change) and got my sandwich.
The kicker was that as I was headed out the door, the manager asked me, "How did you know?????"
Then there is the CVS Drug Store in Centerville, MA. I was behind a woman who went to the cashier with a magazine, a lipgloss and some other small item--I think candy. The clerk scanned in the items and announced, "that will be $14,583.69 (again, don't remember the exact amount--but it was a good downpayment on a house)." the clerk did not bat an eyelash. The woman sputtered and tried to argue--the clerk held steady on this one. In due course the manager was summoned and she, too, insisted that if that was what the register said, than that was right! Needless to say we ALL walked out of the store, leaving our merchandise on the counter!
I actually never shopped there again. What do you do with total idiots?
It's become common...
Then there are other idiocies...
We have a breakfast place near our house called Persy's and they have newspapers "for regular customers." When we moved here (down the road from Persy's) I made the mistake of taking one of the newspapers to read while I was waiting. The waitress snatched it out of my hands telling me that the newspapers were for "regular" customers and obviously I was not one... she did not know me. Now, in our old town we always ate Sunday brunch out... Guess what? These days we stay home and cook it. No welcome to this neighborhood... But I do wonder how they get and keep regular customers at that restaurant. I'm guessing that by now either their regular customers are 85 years old or non-existent because others who have moved here report similar experiences. Yet we are their ideal clientele!
Another restaurant we will not go back to is Bayberries in Sandwich. The waitress brought our wine order and managed to dump all three glasses of wine all over our guest! She was totally soaked! The waitress did not even plan to mop it up or offer a towel or something to us until we made enough noise to finally get a busboy over to cope with the mess!
You guessed it! They charged us for the wine!
And these people expect repeat business???
Hey, I worked in a restaurant for 6 years during college/grad school. I'm pretty sympathetic to waitresses. But this one took the prize! And the management just stood by and watched... What were they thinking? Did they think we would not warn all our friends, relatives, neighbors and visitors to stay out of the place?
All in all, I often wonder how many American businesses stay in business.
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stupid people
Rainband,
I think you live a little to close to the "slow country" (i.e. Low Country) of South Carolina. The gene pool is getting mixed.
Run! I did-- just got to Seattle, where I'm the slow one. Thank goodness! How refreshing!! I haven't had to mutter "idiot" under my breath in a month!
chris
P.S. Are you familiar with the Darwin Awards? (http://www.darwinawards.com/)
I think you live a little to close to the "slow country" (i.e. Low Country) of South Carolina. The gene pool is getting mixed.
Run! I did-- just got to Seattle, where I'm the slow one. Thank goodness! How refreshing!! I haven't had to mutter "idiot" under my breath in a month!
chris
P.S. Are you familiar with the Darwin Awards? (http://www.darwinawards.com/)
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