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.
The paragraph above doesn't amaze me because of what happened a couple
of months ago. I was checking out at the local Foodland 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?" and 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.....
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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.
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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 sandwich.
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* IDIOTS AT WORK... Sign in a gas station: Coke -- 49 cents. Two for
a dollar.
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* IDIOTS & COMPUTERS... 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?"
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* IDIOTS ARE EASY TO PLEASE: I was sitting in my science class, when
the teacher commented that the next day would be the shortest day of the
year. My lab partner became visibly excited, cheering and clapping. I explained
to her that the amount of daylight changes, not the actual amount of time.
Needless to say, she was very disappointed.
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* Police in Radnor, Pennsylvania, 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.