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Sad but True.....Genius at work ..Duh

oldsparkey

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This was sent to me by a friend and has to be in this section , because it would not belong anywhere else , but it is life today and there is a good shot you might run up against the same thing in your daily life.

SAD BUT TRUE........


HOW DO THESE PEOPLE SURVIVE

  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 his reply. "So I can't order a half dozen nuggets, but I can order six?" "That's right", he said. So I shook my head and ordered six McNuggets.

TWO
The paragraph above doesn't amaze me because of what happened a couple of months ago. 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; picked up one of those "dividers" they keep by the cash register and placed it between our things so they wouldn't get mixed. After the boy had scanned all of my items, he picked up the "divider" looking it all over for the bar code so he could scan it. Not finding the bar code he said to me, "Do you know how much this is?" I said to him, "I've changed my mind, I don't think I'll buy that today" He said, "OK" and I paid him for the things and left. He had no clue as 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, 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 a tornado movie. I asked the manager what had happened. He told me 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, 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.  

"Life is tough. It's tougher if you're stupid."  
 

JEM

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oldsparkey said:
  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 his reply. "So I can't order a half dozen nuggets, but I can order six?" "That's right", he said. So I shook my head and ordered six McNuggets.

One of the basic things they trained back almost 20 years when I worked at Taco Bell, was that when giving the customer their change, place the coins in their hand first then hand the bills. That way the coins don't slide off the paper money. This training is given no more obviously.

It's nuerotic, but it's one of my biggest pet peeves....beside builders not building to spec. :p
 

oldsparkey

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Matt

Ya said .... "It's nuerotic, but it's one of my biggest pet peeves....beside builders not building to spec" .

Who in the world would ever build one of your boats and not have it to your spec... No one on here would drop the height of the sides or bob off the stern .. No Sir .. No one on here would ever dream of doing that. :roll:

At lease a normal thinking individual would never do that.

Chuck.
 

Kayak Jack

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JEM said:
I rest my case!
Good one, Matt. Less said the better. Chuckie is in soul cleansing mood there, ehh?

Besides, I too believe in "Modification in everything." Recipes and directions are for those who can't think ahead. Or, are unwilling to clean up their messes afterwards.