For those of you who are feeling a bit stupid today.....

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Cathlete
I hope that this makes you feel better!


Are People Really This Stupid????



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 all mixed up. 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 wa s 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 because 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 g ave him some ant killer..... Dispatcher: Rush him in to emergency
 
the only one i disagree with is #2. i forget about things that just happened a 1/2 second ago and have trouble understanding sometimes and am slow at processing info because i am head injured. which is why i dont work the cash register. i know alot of people look like they r head injured but r not. i would never call anyone stupid. just my opinion. please dont take offence like i just did

laura
 
I've worked in sales and customer service for years. Yes, these can and probably are real. When computers were first readily available at a decent price to everyone (late 1980's) I sold IBM clones over the phone. I had some of the strangest questions come up. I had one executive who was trying to get a floppy disk to work - remember those? The instructions were, insert disc, close door, click run... We finally figured out that when he got to the "close door" spot - he was getting up and shutting his office door, not the door to the floppy. Never occurred to him to ask why he needed to shut his office door - and he was pretty high up in a big company.

Had another guy who had just ordered Microsoft Flight Simulator and called up to thank me. He said that graphics were SOOOO COOOLLL!!! His plane crashed and smoke filled the screen then started pooring out of the monitor! It was just the coolest thing. But, he couldn't figure out why his monitor was not working any longer.

I could go on and on...
 
>I could go on and on...
Please do, this is hilarious! I want more.

Janie

The idea is to die young as late as possible
 
Similar to your #1, years ago,I was at an art/music fair, and one of the displays was some painting on fabric or leather. The sign next to them said "1 for $12, 2 for $25."

I looked at the friend who was with me and said "1 for $12, 2 for $25?!" in an unbelieving voice. The woman who was working the display said, in a very offended voice, "If you don't like the price, you don't have to buy." (I thought about asking if I could buy two pieces separately, but I don't think she would have 'gotten it').
 
RE: For those of you who are feeling a bit stupid today...

I am a dental hygienist and after finishing with a patient who's gums weren't the healthiest, I told him that rinsing with salt water could alleviate the discomfort somewhat.

He looked at me sincerely and asked "Can I just buy that anywhere?"



Then the next time he was in for a cleaning, my boss slipped behind me and set a little salt packet on my counter--I almost couldn't finish my patient-the tears of laughter were welling in my eyes :p

Doreen
 
RE: For those of you who are feeling a bit stupid today...

Okay, this one is kind of sad but still funny. My friend's dad is a neurosurgeon. He was called in for a case involving a man who was in a motor vehicke accident and was badly injured. My friend's dad did everything he could but the man was brain dead. He had to go out and tell the family and a nurse went with him. He told the family that the man's brain was no longer functioning and he was brain dead. The family asked if they could have a moment and went to the corner to discuss something. They came back to my friend's dad and said they had discussed it and would like to go ahead with the BRAIN TRANSPLANT! No kidding. My friend's dad really tried to keep a straight face while explaining that there was no such thing as a brain transplant.

Like I said, sad but funny...
 
RE: For those of you who are feeling a bit stupid today...

Do any of these make you sometimes question how good technology really is?

It can save us time, $, increase our life span, allow us "Catheites" to communicate with others we would never have "met", educate us much more quickly (especially to exercising) than in the past, etc, etc, etc.

But what has happened to basic common sense because we are so much farther ahead technology wise than our parents and grandparents were?

Sometimes I wonder . . .

And, thanks for the fun reading :7
 

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