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09 Dec 2009, 12:11 am

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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 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 tuna 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. It's Tougher if you're Stupid.



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09 Dec 2009, 12:28 am

If these are true accounts, you should probably save yourself and relocate to a new area.



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09 Dec 2009, 12:52 am

I remember this email :lol:



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09 Dec 2009, 12:27 pm

#8 just made my day.


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09 Dec 2009, 1:07 pm

Unfortunately, these situations aren't surprising to me. :shrug: I seem to run into people like these daily.


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09 Dec 2009, 1:47 pm

Thank you InvaderMeer for these humorous accounts---unfortunately, they are true (as you stated). The human race will always provide ourselves with plenty of entertainment.


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09 Dec 2009, 4:29 pm

People sure amaze me with their stupidity.



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09 Dec 2009, 4:34 pm

Never get into an argument with a stupid person; first, they will bring you down to their level then beat you up with their experience.


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09 Dec 2009, 4:49 pm

i've gotten this in an email too a while back. Funny stuff. The only thing is, I know if I worked the register in a grocery store I would do that second one probably on a regular basis =P. I totally space out when concentrating on work, and with the people who have a shopping cart full of stuff i'd probably get into a zone of scanning and just grab it all as it was coming down the belt. I dont think i'd get to the point of asking if i knew how much the divider was, but I know I wouldn't figure it out until i had already picked up and started looking for the UPC code =P.


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09 Dec 2009, 5:45 pm

That cracked me up. :lol:


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09 Dec 2009, 6:36 pm

:lol: ROFLMAO

8O Scary, scary, scary, - they breed :!:


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10 Dec 2009, 5:56 am

what can go wrong.....Im sure they will eventually get promoted some time, since they fit in socially..(sarcasm)..It doesnt matter how stupid a person is, they will get the job regardless of how stupid they are..because they sync in socially.


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10 Dec 2009, 12:48 pm

InvaderMeer wrote:
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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 tuna sandwich.


The best part is that the driver sued the motor home company and won, forcing the company to revise their owner's manuals.

InvaderMeer wrote:
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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.


I don't recall the colander (nice touch!), but I've heard of the photocopier/lie detector ruse being used several times.



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12 Dec 2009, 2:27 pm

Haahaa, these are really funny!