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How do these people survive?

Wannafish

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How do these people survive?


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

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.

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."

I recently saw a distraught young lady weeping beside her car.
"Do youneed 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."

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 potocopier and proceeded to make five "blank" copies.

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.

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?"

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.

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 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!"
 
Sadder still, with the right talk and the bs level at full force, they could actually become YOUR boss someday.
 
Had a guy I worked with using a pencil and paper standing next to the microwave in the lunchroom. I asked him what was he "trying" to figure out. He told me was seeing how many seconds were in 3 minutes, I told mim 180. What did he do? He set the microwave at 180. I asked him why he didn't just press 3, then 0,0. His answer? He told me it didn't work that way.:pat::eek:
 
While working at "The Home Depot" I have to say that was the greatest exposure to the dumbing down in todays people. A customer wanted a piece of glass cut 16" x 20"...and he insisted it had to be cut exactly that way. Before I said anything, the customer told me that he went to Lowe's first and they cut it incorrectly...they cut it 20" x 16"!

Same place, same glass cutting machine but a year later, while breaking in a new hire. A customer (in a long line of many) wanted his glass re-cut from 36" x 32" to the proper size which was 34 3/4" x 32", so I instucted the new employee to cut 1 1/4" off the 36" side. He (employee) began arguing that my numbers didn't add up, an 1 1/4 was too much, and that the proper amont to remove was 10/8ths". He lasted 3 days and quit.
 
Framing a Pole building , one of our brighter sparks asked me how many 1/16ths were in an inch !
 
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