How on earth do some people make it through the day?

[dragon wench]

Somebody just shared this with me...... definitely more potential candidates for the Darwin Awards here...

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 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 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!"

[Chimaera182]

Good grief. My mom warned me almost every day of my life how stupid people are and how crazy the world was, but even so she just couldn't prepare me for the sheer magnitude.

That McNugget story reminds me of the hell I felt like raising in a Starbucks once. I don't drink coffee or any of those weird drinks they'd sell, but a couple friends would hang out in there, and would make fun of the names of the cup sizes. I'm dying to go up to the counter and ask for a small drink and have them contradict me. A customer does not get contradicted; they are always right. If one of them corrected me, I'd blow a fuse just for the fun of it; problem is, I'd probably not be able to keep a straight face, and if I'm sufficiently annoyed-looking, they might give me a free drink which I wouldn't want anyway. Frankly, if someone told me they don't sell "half dozens but do sell 6," I would laugh in their face.

That woman about the smoke from her computer is an oddly-regular bizarreness that occurs on this Computer Stupidities site I like to go to. Lots of people somehow seem to think that smoke coming out of their computers means a fire somewhere else; that woman shoving her credit card in the floppy drive, though, was new, and quite funny.

And Mrs. NINE isn't a candidate for the Darwin Awards so much as a candidate for child services to sweep in and take that kid away, if not sterilization. God, feeding your kid ant killer, what the heck was she on?

[Ravager]

Originally Posted by dragon wench

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.

I would probably do something like that.... I mean, I have enough to remember...where to look for new, preowned and trade items...then where to look...then to scan them all...scan a book of barcodes for special offers...take vouchers and scan them too...and that's only half of it.

[ik911]

Originally Posted by dragon wench

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.

Damn, that's not funn-ay... I needed some blank A0 sheets last monday, so I went to this copy-shop, because nothing else was open. I couldn't just buy some, I had to make a blank (pdf-)image file at the right format which could then be "printed" at a nice full fee. €8 for 2 blank sheets!!
(5.50 British Pounds
10.10 American Dollars
13.55 Australian Dollars
22.90 Brazilian Real
11.30 Canadian Dollars

It might not be much in your country, perhaps, but I still find it a lot of money for an unprinted paper sheet)